baboon

• n.[棘]ヒヒ。

おそらくヒヒの鳴き声を真似たオノマトペから。

baboon

baboon: [14] The origins of baboon are obscure, but it seems that the notion underlying it may be that of ‘grimacing’. Baboons characteristically draw back their lips in snarling, revealing their teeth, and it has been speculated that there may be a connection with Old French baboue ‘grimace’. However that may be, it was certainly in Old French that the word first surfaced, as babuin, and originally it meant ‘gaping figure’ (as in a gargoyle) as well as ‘ape’. This alternative meaning was carried over when the Old French word was borrowed into English, where it remained a live sense of baboon until the 16th century.

baboon (n.)

type of old world ape, c. 1400, babewyn, earlier "a grotesque figure used in architecture or decoration" (early 14c.), from French babouin "baboon," from Old French baboin "ape," earlier "simpleton, dimwit, fool" (13c.), also "gaping figure (such as a gargoyle)," so perhaps from Old French baboue "grimacing;" or perhaps it is imitative of the ape's babbling speech-like cries. Also see -oon. German Pavian "baboon" is from Dutch baviaan, from Middle Dutch baubijn, a borrowing of the Old French word. Century Dictionary says Arabic maimun probably is from the European words.

1. Baboon organs are too small to sustain people for long periods.

ヒヒ器官が小さすぎて、人間を長時間支えることができない.

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2.He moves like a baboon with two clubfeet.

彼の動作は、2本の奇形の足しかないヒヒのように。

3.A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.

ヒヒはアフリカに生息する大きなサルである。

4.If we had tails a baboon ，where are they？

私にヒヒのような尾があれば、彼らはどこにいるのだろうか。

5.The quality and stability of baboon relationships trump quantity，the researchers say.

研究者によると、ヒヒ間の社会関係の質と安定度は数よりも重要である。