In Polish it's called małpa (monkey). I always thought of this as weird — turns ...

misterdata · 2025-09-28T13:47:52 1759067272

Also “apenstaartje” in Dutch (monkey’s tail)

Nux · 2025-09-28T07:10:16 1759043416

In Romanian we used to call it literally "monkey's tail", but most people now just use "at" instead.

dvh · 2025-09-28T07:59:35 1759046375

Zavináč in Slovak (like the fish, sprat, curled into small ball)

leobg · 2025-09-28T06:22:08 1759040528

German: “Klammeraffe” (literally: “bracket monkey”)

layer8 · 2025-09-28T14:08:05 1759068485

Klammeraffe is a genus of monkey, called spider monkeys [0] in English. “Klammer” here means “clinging”, because these monkeys use their long tail similar to their arms to hold on to branches. “Klammeraffe” has no relation to brackets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_monkey