# orangutan
## English
### Alternative forms

* 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

### 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 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) opposes the belief that the name orangutan originates from a European source.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /əˌɹæŋ.uːˈtæn/, /əˌɹæŋ.uːˈtæŋ/
* (UK, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ɔəˌɹæŋuːˈtæn/, /ˌɔə.ɹæŋˈuː.tæn/
* (US) IPA: /əˈɹæŋ.əˌtæn/, /əˈɹæŋ.əˌtæŋ/, /ɔˈɹæŋ.ʊˌtæn/, /oʊˈɹæŋ-/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (AUS) IPA: /əˈɹæŋˌə.tɛːŋ/, /əˈɹæŋˌə.tæŋ/

### 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

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

#### 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)
* → 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

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Sastrawan, Wayan Jarrah (2020) “The word ‘orangutan’: Old Malay origin or European concoction?”, in Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, volume 176, number 4, →DOI, pages 532–541
* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Orangutan”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
* ↑ 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

* IPA: (Central) [u.ɾəŋ.ɡuˈtan]
* IPA: (Balearic) [o.ɾəŋ.ɡuˈtan]
* IPA: (Valencia) [o.ɾaŋ.ɡuˈtan]

### Noun

orangutan m (plural orangutans)
* orangutan

### Further reading

* “orangutan” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈoraŋɡutan]

### Noun

orangutan m anim
* orangutan

#### Derived terms

* orangutaní

### Further reading

* “orangutan”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “orangutan”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Italian
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

### Noun

orangutan m (invariable)
* orangutan

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English orangutan.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

orangutan m animal
* orangutan (any ape of the genus Pongo)

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: orangùtan

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Noun

orangutan m (plural orangutani)
* Alternative form of urangutan

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oranɡǔtaːn/
* Hyphenation: o‧ran‧gu‧tan

### Noun

orangùtān m (Cyrillic spelling орангу̀та̄н)
* orangutan

#### Declension
## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

orangutan
* orangutan

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
orangutan
orangutanlar
definite accusative
orangutanı
orangutanları
dative
orangutana
orangutanlara
locative
orangutanda
orangutanlarda
ablative
orangutandan
orangutanlardan
genitive
orangutanın
orangutanların
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

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