Etymology

talapoin

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Today it means: A monkey from one of two species of Old World monkeys, of the genus Miopithecus, distinguished by a short-snouted head with a hairless face. Full definition →

French talapoin ← Portuguese talapão ← mnw တၠဳ ပိုဲ
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The story

  1. mnw · derived fromတၠဳ ပိုဲ“our lord”
  2. Portuguese · derived fromtalapão
  3. French · borrowed fromtalapoin
  4. English todaytalapoin

From French talapoin, from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).

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