orangutan
English
/əˈɹæŋ.ə.tæn/, /əˈɹæŋ.əˌtæn/
noun
Definitions
- An arboreal anthropoid ape genus Pongo consisting of two species, Pongo pygmaeus of Borneo and Pongo abelii of Sumatra, having a shaggy reddish-brown coat, long arms, and no tail.
Etymology
Derived from Malay orang (man, person, human being).
Origin
Malay
orang
Gloss
man, person, human being
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
男, 夫, 士
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- orangutang English
- orangután Hungarian
- orangutánok Hungarian
- orangutan Italian
- orang-oetan Dutch, Flemish
- орангута́н Russian
- orangután Spanish, Castilian
- orangutang Norwegian Bokmål
- orangotango Portuguese
- orangutang Swedish
- オランウータン Japanese
- orangutan Polish
- orangutang Norwegian Nynorsk
- órang-útan Irish
- orangutan Serbo-Croatian
- orangutan Catalan, Valencian
- orangután Galician
- อุรังอุตัง Thai
- ουρακοτάγκος Greek (modern)
- orang Indonesian
- orang utan Indonesian
- orangutans Latvian
- orangutan Turkish
- orangutang Faroese
- kau orang Malay
- orang Malay
- orang utan Malay
- utan Malay
- *uraŋ Proto-Malayic