# baboon
## English
### Alternative forms

* babian, babion
* (14th century):
** babewyne
** baboyne
* (15th century):
** babewen
** babewin
** babewyn
** babwen
** babwyn
** baubyn
* (16th century):
** baboon
** baboone
** babound
** baboune
** baboyn
** babwyne
* (17th century):
** baboon
** baboone
** baboune
* (18th century–present):
** baboon

### Etymology

From Middle English babewin, baboin, from Old French babouin, from baboue (“grimace; muzzle”), of West Germanic origin, related to dialectal German Bäppe (“lips; muzzle”), Middle High German beffen (“to bark”), Middle English baffen (“to bark”). See also baff, baffle.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bəbo͞onʹ, IPA: /bəˈbuːn/,
* (US) IPA: /ˌbæˈbuːn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːn

### Noun

baboon (plural baboons)
* 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. [from 13th c.]
** 1971, Philip José Farmer, Down in the Black Gang: and others; a story collection, Nelson Doubleday, page 79: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.
** 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 21 June 2017, page 162:He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
* (colloquial, derogatory) A foolish or boorish person.

#### Usage notes

The collective noun for baboons is troop.

#### Derived terms

* antibaboon
* Anubis baboon (Papio anubis)
* Arabian baboon (Papio hamadryas)
* baboonery
* babooness
* babooning
* baboonish
* baboonize
* baboonlike
* baboon spider (Theraphosidae)
* Cape baboon, chacma baboon (Papio ursinus)
* dog-faced baboon (Papio hamadryas)
* gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada)
* Guinea baboon (Papio papio)
* hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas)
* huboon
* Kinda baboon (Papio kindae)
* lion-tailed baboon (Macacus silenus)
* olive baboon (Papio anubis)
* sacred baboon (Papio hamadryas)
* sheboon
* sphinx baboon (Papio sphinx)
* ursine baboon (Papio ursinus)
* western baboon (Papio papio)
* wood baboon (Mandrillus leucophaeus)
* yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus)

#### Descendants

* → Irish: babún
* → Welsh: babŵn

#### Translations

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: bobbejaan (af)
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: بَابُون m (bābūn)
Armenian: պավիան (hy) (pavian)
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: babuín (ast), papión (ast)
Azerbaijani: pavian
Baiso: jaldessa
Bulgarian: павиа́н m (pavián), песогла́вец (bg) m (pesoglávec)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: babuí m
Cherokee: Ꮖ̃Ꮚ̃Ꮒ (quãquũni)
Chichewa: nyani
Chinese:
Mandarin: 狒狒 (zh) (fèifèi)
Coptic: ⲉⲛ (en)
Czech: pavián (cs) m
Dagbani: kparli
Danish: bavian c
Dutch: baviaan (nl) m
Egyptian: (jꜥn)
Esperanto: paviano
Estonian: paavian (et)
Finnish: paviaani (fi)
French: babouin (fr) m
Georgian: პავიანი (ṗaviani)
German: Pavian (de) m
Greek: μπαμπουίνος (el) m (bampouínos)
Greenlandic: baviani (kl)
Hadza: please add this translation if you can
Hausa: bika
Hindi: बबून m (babūn)
Hungarian: pávián (hu)
Iban: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: bavían m, bavíani m, hundapi m
Ido: babuino (io)
Ik: tsɔr
Irish: babún m
Italian: babbuino (it) m
Japanese: 狒々 (ja) (ひひ, hihi), ヒヒ (ja) (hihi)
Khoekhoe: ǀnerab
Korean: 비비(狒狒) (ko) (bibi)
Luxembourgish: Pavian
Malay: babun
Maori: touwhero
Marathi: बबून m (babūn)
Navajo: mágí bíchį́į́htsohígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bavian (no) m
Nynorsk: bavian m
Oromo: jaldeesii
Persian: عنتر (fa) ('antar), بابون (bâbun)
Polish: pawian (pl) m
Portuguese: babão (pt), babuíno (pt) m
Romagnol: babuvén m, babuén m
Romanian: babuin (ro) m
Russian: бабуи́н (ru) m (babuín), павиа́н (ru) m (pavián)
Serbo-Croatian: babun (sh) m, pavijan (sh) m
Slovak: pavián (sk) m
Sotho: tshwene (st)
Spanish: babón, babuino (es) m
Swahili: nyani (sw)
Swedish: babian (sv)
Thai: บาบูน (baa-buun)
Tibetan: ཧྥེ་ཧྥེ (hphe hphe)
Tswana: tshwene class 9/10
Turkish: şebek (tr)
Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: павіа́н m (pavián)
Vietnamese: khỉ đầu chó
Volapük: babun (vo)
Welsh: babŵn m
Wolof: goŋ
Yámana: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
Yoruba: gbòrògì, irò
Yucatec Maya: please add this translation if you can
Yup'ik: please add this translation if you can
Zazaki: babun (diq) f
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: imfene (zu) class 9/10 :

#### See also

* chacma (Papio ursinus)
* drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus)
* mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
* Appendix:English collective nouns

#### References

* 1 2 “baboon” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)