Where does “ചിമ്പാൻസി” come from?

ചിമ്പാൻസി (Malayalam) comes from English chimpanzee, from French chimpanzé — chimpanzee.

ചിമ്പാൻസി (Malayalam): chimpanzee

Definitions

  1. chimpanzee

Ancestry of “ചിമ്പാൻസി”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishchimpanzeeA species of great ape in the genus "Pan", native...
2Frenchchimpanzéchimpanzee
Every word from French chimpanzé →Every word from English chimpanzee →