orang utan

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

English

Noun

orang utan (plural orang utans)

1. Alternative spelling of orangutan.

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• orang hutan

Etymology

From Malay orang utan, compound of orang (“person, man”) +‎ utan (“forest”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˌoraŋ ˈutan/ [ˌo.raŋ ˈu.t̪an]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utan
• Syllabification: o‧rang u‧tan

Noun

orang utan (plural orang-orang utan)

1. orangutan (arboreal anthropoid ape)

   Synonyms: mawas, mayas

Further reading

• “orang utan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Etymology

From orang (“person, man”) +‎ utan (“forest”). General use displaced mawas and mayas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌoraŋ ˈutan/ [ˌo.raŋ ˈu.t̪an]

• Audio (Malaysia):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: o‧rang‧u‧tan

Noun

orang utan (Jawi spelling اورڠ اوتن, plural orang-orang utan or orang² utan)

1. orangutan (arboreal anthropoid ape).

Descendants

• → Dutch: orang-oetan, orang-oetang
  • → Norwegian: orangutang
• → English: orangutan, orang-utan, orang-outang, ourang-outang, orangoutang, orang utan, orangutang, ourang outang, orang-outan, ourangoutang, orang-utang, ourang-outan, oran-outang, orang-otang, orangoutan, orangotang, orang-otan, uran-utan, oran-otan, orang-hutan
  • → 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)
  • → Korean: 오랑우탄 (orang'utan)
  • → 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
• → 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