orangutan
English
Alternative forms
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 opposes the belief of the name orangutan originating from a European source.[1]
Pronunciation
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
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)
- → 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
arboreal anthropoid ape
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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
- “orangutan”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Pronunciation
Further reading
- “orangutan” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈoraŋɡutan]
Declension
Declension of orangutan (hard masculine animate)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | orangutan | orangutani |
genitive | orangutana | orangutanů |
dative | orangutanovi, orangutanu | orangutanům |
accusative | orangutana | orangutany |
vocative | orangutane | orangutani |
locative | orangutanovi, orangutanu | orangutanech |
instrumental | orangutanem | orangutany |
Derived terms
Italian
Alternative forms
- orango, urango, orangotango, orangutango, orangotano, orangutano, rangutan, rangutano
Etymology
Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.raŋˈɡu.tan/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -utan
- Syllabification: o‧ran‧gu‧tan
Declension
Declension of orangutan
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
Romanian
Declension
Declension of orangutan
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
Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oranɡǔtaːn/
- Hyphenation: o‧ran‧gu‧tan
Declension
Declension of orangutan
singular | plural | |
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nominative | orangutan | orangutani |
genitive | orangutana | orangutana |
dative | orangutanu | orangutanima |
accusative | orangutana | orangutane |
vocative | orangutane | orangutani |
locative | orangutanu | orangutanima |
instrumental | orangutanom | orangutanima |
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اورانغوتان (orangutan), from French orangoutan, from Malay orang utan.
Declension
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Nominative | orangutan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | orangutanı | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | orangutan | orangutanlar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | orangutanı | orangutanları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | orangutana | orangutanlara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | orangutanda | orangutanlarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | orangutandan | orangutanlardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | orangutanın | orangutanların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “orangutan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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