orangutan

• orang-utan, orang-outang, ourang-outang, orangoutang, orang utan, orangutang
• (rare) ourang outang, orang-outan, ourangoutang, orang-utang, ourang-outan, oran-outang, orang-otang, orangoutan, orangotang, orang-otan, uran-utan, oran-otan, orang-hutan

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 Smaradahana, in the form of uraṅutan and wuraṅutan. Its usage to refer to the apes in these texts (from as early as the 9th century CE) has been seen as a refutation of claims that the name orangutan originates from a European source.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˌɹæŋ.uːˈtæn/, /əˌɹæŋ.uːˈtæŋ/^[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):

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• Audio (UK):

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• (AUS) IPA^(key): /əˈɹæŋˌə.tɛːŋ/, /əˈɹæŋˌə.tæŋ/

orangutan (plural orangutans)

1. Any of three species of arboreal anthropoid ape, characterised by their shaggy reddish-brown coat and long arms, which comprise the genus Pongo, native to Borneo and Sumatra.

• 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.

• Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
• Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii)
• Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis)

• → 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

Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.ɾəŋ.ɡuˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.ɾəŋ.ɡuˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [o.ɾaŋ.ɡuˈtan]

orangutan m (plural orangutans)

1. orangutan

• “orangutan”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

• IPA^(key): [ˈoraŋɡutan]
• Hyphenation: oran‧gu‧tan

orangutan m anim (relational adjective orangutaní, diminutive orangutánek)

1. orangutan (any ape of the genus Pongo)

• “orangutan”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “orangutan”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “orangutan”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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

Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

orangutan m (invariable)

1. orangutan

Borrowed from English orangutan.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.raŋˈɡu.tan/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utan
• Syllabification: o‧ran‧gu‧tan

orangutan m animal

1. orangutan (any ape of the genus Pongo)

• → Kashubian: orangùtan

• orangutan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• orangutan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• orangutan in PWN's encyclopedia

orangutan m (plural orangutani)

1. alternative form of urangutan

Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

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

orangùtān m anim (Cyrillic spelling орангу̀та̄н)

1. orangutan

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

orangutan

1. orangutan

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