orangutan

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

English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

orangutan

Wikipedia

Alternative forms[edit]

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[edit]

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 opposes the belief of the name orangutan originating from a European source.^[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˌɹæŋ.uːˈtæn/, /ˌɔː.ɹæŋˈuː.tæn/^[2]
(UK, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɔəˌɹæŋuːˈtæn/, /ˌɔə.ɹæŋˈuː.tæn/^[3]
(US) IPA^(key): /əˈɹæŋ.əˌtæn/, /əˈɹæŋ.əˌtæŋ/, /ɔˈɹæŋ.ʊˌtæn/, /oʊˈɹæŋ-/^[4]
Audio (US) (file)
Audio (UK) (file)

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Descendants[edit]

→ 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)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: орангу̀та̄н
- Latin: orangùtān
→ Sicilian: rangutanu
→ Spanish: orangután
- → Galician: orangután
→ Swedish: orangutang
→ Thai: อุรังอุตัง (ù-rang-ù-dtang)
→ Turkish: orangutan

Translations[edit]

arboreal anthropoid ape

Arabic: إِنْسَان اَلْغَاب‎ m (ʾinsān al-ḡāb)
Armenian: օրանգուտան (hy) (ōrangutan)
Assamese: ওৰাংওটাং (üraṅütaṅ)
Bau Bidayuh: mayas
Belarusian: арангутан m (aranhutan)
Bulgarian: орангутан (bg) m (orangutan)
Catalan: orangutan (ca) m
Central Dusun: kogiu
Central Melanau: mayaih
Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎶᏂᎨ ᎠᏓᎵᏍᎩᏱᏍᎩ (adalonige adalisgiyisgi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 紅毛猩猩, 红毛猩猩 (hóngmáo xīngxing)
Czech: orangutan (cs) m
Dutch: orang-oetan (nl) ?
Esperanto: orangutango
Finnish: oranki (fi)
French: orang-outan (fr) m
Georgian: ორანგუტანი (oranguṭani)
German: Orang-Utan (de) m
Greek: ουρακοτάγκος (el) m (ourakotágkos)
Hindi: आरंगुटान ? (āraṅguṭān), ओरंगोटंग (hi) m (oraṅgoṭaṅg)
Hungarian: orangután (hu)
Icelandic: órangútan m
Ido: orangutano (io)
Inari Sami: oraŋgi
Indonesian: orang utan (id), mawas (id)
Irish: órang-útan m
Italian: orango (it) m
Japanese: オランウータン (ja) (oran'ūtan), 猩猩 (ja) (しょうじょう, shōjō)
Korean: 오랑우탄 (orang'utan)
Latvian: orangutans m
Macedonian: орангутан m (orangutan)
Malay: orang utan (ms), mawas
Manx: apey jiarg m
Maori: tuahuru
Navajo: mágí diʼilí
Polish: orangutan (pl) m
Portuguese: orangotango (pt) m
Romanian: urangutan (ro) m
Russian: орангута́н (ru) m (orangután)
Sebop: kuyang
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: орангу̀та̄н m

Roman: orangùtān (sh) m
Spanish: orangután (es) m
Swedish: orangutang (sv) c
Tagal Murut: kagui
Tagalog: urangutang
Thai: อุรังอุตัง (ù-rang-ù-dtang)
Tibetan: སྤྲ (spra)
Turkish: orangutan (tr)
Uab Meto: atoinfui
Ukrainian: орангутан m (oranhutan)
Vietnamese: đười ươi (vi)
West Coast Bajau: begiu, mawas

References[edit]

^ 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
^ “orangutan”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Catalan[edit]

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

orangutan

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology[edit]

From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Pronunciation[edit]

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.ɾəŋ.ɡuˈtan/
(Central) IPA^(key): /u.ɾəŋ.ɡuˈtan/
(Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.ɾaŋ.ɡuˈtan/

Noun[edit]

orangutan m (plural orangutans)

orangutan

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈoraŋɡutan]

Noun[edit]

orangutan m anim

orangutan

Derived terms[edit]

orangutaní

Italian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

orango, urango, orangotango, orangutango, orangotano, orangutano, rangutan, rangutano

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Noun[edit]

orangutan m (invariable)

orangutan

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

orangutan

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ɔ.raŋˈɡu.tan/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -utan
Syllabification: o‧ran‧gu‧tan

Noun[edit]

orangutan m anim

orangutan

Declension[edit]

Declension of orangutan

	singular	plural
nominative	orangutan	orangutany
genitive	orangutana	orangutanów
dative	orangutanowi	orangutanom
accusative	orangutana	orangutany
instrumental	orangutanem	orangutanami
locative	orangutanie	orangutanach
vocative	orangutanie	orangutany

Descendants[edit]

→ Kashubian: orangùtan

Romanian[edit]

Noun[edit]

orangutan m (plural orangutani)

Alternative form of urangutan

Declension[edit]

Declension of orangutan

	singular		plural
	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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /oranɡǔtaːn/
Hyphenation: o‧ran‧gu‧tan

Noun[edit]

orangùtān m (Cyrillic spelling орангу̀та̄н)

orangutan

Declension[edit]

Declension of orangutan

	singular	plural
nominative	orangutan	orangutani
genitive	orangutana	orangutana
dative	orangutanu	orangutanima
accusative	orangutana	orangutane
vocative	orangutane	orangutani
locative	orangutanu	orangutanima
instrumental	orangutanom	orangutanima

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish اورانغوتان‎ (orangutan), from French orangoutan, from Malay orang utan.

Noun[edit]

orangutan

orangutan

Declension[edit]

Inflection

Nominative

orangutan

Definite accusative

orangutanı

Singular

Plural

Nominative

orangutan

Definite accusative

Dative

Locative

Ablative

Genitive

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	orangutanım	orangutanlarım
2nd singular	orangutanın	orangutanların
3rd singular	orangutanı	orangutanları
1st plural	orangutanımız	orangutanlarımız
2nd plural	orangutanınız	orangutanlarınız
3rd plural	orangutanları	orangutanları
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	orangutanımı	orangutanlarımı
2nd singular	orangutanını	orangutanlarını
3rd singular	orangutanını	orangutanlarını
1st plural	orangutanımızı	orangutanlarımızı
2nd plural	orangutanınızı	orangutanlarınızı
3rd plural	orangutanlarını	orangutanlarını
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	orangutanıma	orangutanlarıma
2nd singular	orangutanına	orangutanlarına
3rd singular	orangutanına	orangutanlarına
1st plural	orangutanımıza	orangutanlarımıza
2nd plural	orangutanınıza	orangutanlarınıza
3rd plural	orangutanlarına	orangutanlarına
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	orangutanımda	orangutanlarımda
2nd singular	orangutanında	orangutanlarında
3rd singular	orangutanında	orangutanlarında
1st plural	orangutanımızda	orangutanlarımızda
2nd plural	orangutanınızda	orangutanlarınızda
3rd plural	orangutanlarında	orangutanlarında
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	orangutanımdan	orangutanlarımdan
2nd singular	orangutanından	orangutanlarından
3rd singular	orangutanından	orangutanlarından
1st plural	orangutanımızdan	orangutanlarımızdan
2nd plural	orangutanınızdan	orangutanlarınızdan
3rd plural	orangutanlarından	orangutanlarından
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	orangutanımın	orangutanlarımın
2nd singular	orangutanının	orangutanlarının
3rd singular	orangutanının	orangutanlarının
1st plural	orangutanımızın	orangutanlarımızın
2nd plural	orangutanınızın	orangutanlarınızın
3rd plural	orangutanlarının	orangutanlarının

References[edit]

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “orangutan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

[1] ttps://brill.com/view/journals/bki/176/4/article-p532_5.xml?language=en

[2] “orangutan”, in Collins English Dictionary.

[3] The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003

[4] “orangutan”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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