orangutan
English
An Orangutan
Alternative forms
- orang utan, orang-utan, orang-utang, orangutang, orangoutan, orangoutang
Etymology
Malay orang (“person", "man”) + hutan (“forest”) "forest man". The name "orang utan (sic)" appears to have been bestowed by Europeans. The indigenous name given to the apes Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii by locals historically was mawas.
Pronunciation
Noun
orangutan (plural orangutans)
- 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.
Descendants
- → Catalan: orangutan
- → Czech: orangutan
- → Faroese: orangutang (perhaps via another European language)
- → French: orang-outan
- → 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)
- → Armenian: օրանգուտան (ōrangutan)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: orangután
- → Galician: orangután
- → Swedish: orangutang
- → Thai: อุรังอุตัง (ù-rang-ù-dtang)
- → Turkish: orangutan
Translations
arboreal anthropoid ape
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Czech
Italian
Alternative forms
- orango, urango, orangotango, orangutango, orangotano, orangutano, rangutan, rangutano
Etymology
Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oranɡǔtaːn/
- Hyphenation: o‧ran‧gu‧tan
Declension
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
Etymology
From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.
Declension
| Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nominative | orangutan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Definite accusative | orangutanı | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominative | orangutan | orangutanlar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Definite accusative | orangutanı | orangutanları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dative | orangutana | orangutanlara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locative | orangutanda | orangutanlarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ablative | orangutandan | orangutanlardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genitive | orangutanın | orangutanların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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