orangutan
English
Alternative forms
- orang-utan, orang-outang, ourang-outang, orangoutang, orang utan
- (rare) orangutang, ourang outang, orang-outan, ourangoutang, orang-utang, ourang-outan, oran-outang, orang-otang, orangoutan, orangotang, orang-otan, uran-utan, oran-otan, orang-hutan
Etymology
From Malay orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”); literally, "forest man". Other names for the animal are mawas and mayas.
The name orangutan has been used in Old Javanese texts, notably in Rāmāyaṇa and in Smaradahana in the form of uraŋutan and wuraŋutan. The usage of the word to refer to the apes in these texts oppose the belief of the name orangutan originating from a European source.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
orangutan (plural orangutans)
- Any of three species of arboreal anthropoid ape, characterised by their shaggy reddish-brown coat and long arms, which comprise the genus Pongo; Pongo pygmaeus of Borneo, Pongo abelii of Sumatra or Pongo tapanuliensis of South Tapanuli (in Sumatra).
Usage notes
- Formerly considered a single species.
- First described scientifically in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus as Homo Sylvestris.
- Renamed Simia pygmaeus in 1760 by his student Christian Emmanuel Hopp, then placed in Pongo by Lacépède in 1799.
- From 1996, divided into two species: the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus, with three subspecies) and the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii).
- The third species, the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), was identified definitively in 2017.
Derived terms
- Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
- Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii)
- Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis)
Descendants
- → Catalan: orangutan
- → Czech: orangutan
- → Faroese: orangutang (perhaps via another European language)
- → French: orang-outan, ourang-outang
- → 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), орангутанг (orangutang)
- → Armenian: օրանգուտան (ōrangutan)
- → Ingrian: orang-utan
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: орангу̀та̄н
- Latin script: orangùtān
- → Sicilian: rangutanu
- → Spanish: orangután
- → Galician: orangután
- → Swedish: orangutang
- → Thai: อุรังอุตัง (ù-rang-ù-dtang)
- → Turkish: orangutan
Translations
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References
- ^ https://brill.com/view/journals/bki/176/4/article-p532_5.xml?language=en
- ^ “orangutan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
Catalan
Etymology
From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [u.ɾəŋ.ɡuˈtan]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [o.ɾəŋ.ɡuˈtan]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [o.ɾaŋ.ɡuˈtan]
Noun
orangutan m (plural orangutans)
Further reading
- “orangutan” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
orangutan m anim
Derived terms
Further reading
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Noun
orangutan m (invariable)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | orangutan | orangutany |
genitive | orangutana | orangutanów |
dative | orangutanowi | orangutanom |
accusative | orangutana | orangutany |
instrumental | orangutanem | orangutanami |
locative | orangutanie | orangutanach |
vocative | orangutanie | orangutany |
Descendants
- → Kashubian: orangùtan
Further reading
- orangutan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- orangutan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Noun
orangutan m (plural orangutani)
- Alternative form of urangutan
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) orangutan | orangutanul | (niște) orangutani | orangutanii |
genitive/dative | (unui) orangutan | orangutanului | (unor) orangutani | orangutanilor |
vocative | orangutanule | orangutanilor |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Pronunciation
Noun
orangùtān m (Cyrillic spelling орангу̀та̄н)
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | orangutan | orangutani |
genitive | orangutana | orangutana |
dative | orangutanu | orangutanima |
accusative | orangutana | orangutane |
vocative | orangutane | orangutani |
locative | orangutanu | orangutanima |
instrumental | orangutanom | orangutanima |
Turkish
Etymology
From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Noun
orangutan
Declension
- English terms derived from Malay
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Hominids
- Catalan terms borrowed from English
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- Catalan terms derived from Malay
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- Catalan countable nouns
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- ca:Hominids
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
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- cs:Primates
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- Polish terms borrowed from English
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- Polish terms derived from Malay
- Polish 4-syllable words
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- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/utan
- Rhymes:Polish/utan/4 syllables
- pl:Hominids
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from English
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- tr:Hominids