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Meaning of Baboon | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

bəˈbuːn

Definitions

An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
A foolish or boorish person.
colloquial, derogatory

Equivalents

Afrikaans bobbejaan

العربية البابون بَابُون ميمون

བོད་སྐད ཧྥེ་ཧྥེ

Bosanski babun bika pavijan бабун павијан

Čeština pavián paviání

Cymraeg babŵn

Dansk bavian

Deutsch Pavian

Ελληνικά μπαμπουίνος

Esperanto paviano

Español babón babuino

فارسی بابون عنتر

Suomi paviaani

Français babouin

Gaeilge babún

Hausa bika

עברית בבון תוכי

Hrvatski babun bika pavijan бабун павијан

Magyar pávián

Íslenska bavían bavíani

Italiano babbuino

日本語ひひ狒々

한국어 비비

Kurdî îro îro şebek

Lingála mboma

Bahasa Melayu babun

Nederlands baviaan

Polski pawian

Português babão babuíno

Română babuin

Русский бабуин павиан

Српски babun bika pavijan бабун павијан

Sesotho tshwene

Svenska babian

Kiswahili nyani

ไทย บาบูน

Setswana tshwene

Türkçe babun şebek

Українська павіан

Tiếng Việt khỉ đầu chó

Wolof goŋ

Yorùbá gbòrògì irọ́

IsiZulu imfene

Examples

“Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons. But he was in no position to insult his host, nor should he. The man was only expressing the attitude of his time.”

“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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See also

baboon spider baboon syndrome baboonery babooness babooning Baboonish

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