orang utan

See also: orangutan, orangután, orang-utan, Orang-Utan, and órang-útan

Indonesian

Alternate forms

orang hutan

Etymology

orang (“person, man”) +‎ utan (“forest”), from Malay orang utan.

Noun

orangutan (arboreal anthropoid ape).

Malay

Etymology

orang (“person, man”) +‎ utan (“forest”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oraŋ utan/

Noun

orang utan (Jawi spelling اورڠ اوتن‎, plural orang-orang utan)

orangutan (arboreal anthropoid ape).

Descendants

→ Dutch: orang-oetan
- → Norwegian: orangutang
→ English: orangutan
- → Catalan: orangutan
- → Czech: orangutan
- → Faroese: orangutang (perhaps via another European language)
- → French: orang-outan
  - → Romanian: urangutan
- → German: Orang-Utan
- → Greek: ουρακοτάγκος (ourakotágkos)
- → Hungarian: orangután
- → Italian: orangutan, orango
- → Japanese: オランウータン (oran'ūtan)
- → Polish: orangutan
- → Russian: орангутан (orangutan)
  - → Armenian: օրանգուտան (ōrangutan)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  - Cyrillic: орангутан
  - Latin: orangutan
- → Spanish: orangután
  - → Galician: orangután
- → Swedish: orangutang
- → Thai: อุรังอุตัง (ù-rang-ù-dtang)
- → Turkish: orangutan
→ Finnish: oranki (via some other European language)
→ Hindi: आरंगुटान (āraṅguṭān)
Indonesian: orang utan
→ Irish: órang-útan (perhaps via another European language)
→ Korean: 오랑우탄 (orang-utan)
→ Portuguese: orangotango

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