orangutan

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• US: /əˈɹæŋ.əˌtæn/
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• US: /əˈɹæŋ.əˌtæŋ/
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• US: /ɔˈɹæŋ.ʊˌtæn/
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• US: /oʊˈɹæŋ-/
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• Australian: /əˈɹæŋˌə.tɛːŋ/
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• Australian: /əˈɹæŋˌə.tæŋ/
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• India: /o(ː)ˈrɑːŋ.ɡʊ.ˈʈɑːn/
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• CMU ARPABET: AO0 R AE1 NG AH0 T AE0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: AO0 R AE1 NG AH0 T AA0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Probably via Dutch orang-oetan, orang-oetang, apparently from Malay orang hutan, orang utan (literally “forest man”), from orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”), although as a term for the animal it is attested only recently (earlier and preferred terms being mawas and mayas). As there is originally no evidence for its usage, except occasionally literally, it must be assumed to have been regional, or a descriptive collocation used to explain the animal to early travellers. Forms in -ng are alterations after the first element, orang. 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.

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِنْسَان اَلْغَاب (ʔinsān al-ḡāb) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Armenian: օրանգուտան (ōrangutan) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Assamese: ওৰাংওটাং (üraṅütaṅ) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Asturian: orangután — arboreal anthropoid ape
• West Coast Bajau: begiu — arboreal anthropoid ape
• West Coast Bajau: mawas — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Belarusian: арангутан (aranhutan) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Bau Bidayuh: mayas — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Bulgarian: орангутан (orangutan) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Catalan: orangutan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎶᏂᎨ ᎠᏓᎵᏍᎩᏱᏍᎩ (adalonige adalisgiyisgi) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Chinese Mandarin: 紅毛猩猩 /红毛猩猩 (hóngmáo xīngxing) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Czech: orangutan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Central Dusun: kogiu — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Dutch: orang-oetan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Esperanto: orangutango — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Esperanto: orangutano — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Estonian: orangutan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Estonian: orangutang — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Finnish: oranki — arboreal anthropoid ape
• French: orang-outan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Georgian: ორანგუტანი (oranguṭani) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• German: Orang-Utan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Greek: ουρακοτάγκος (ourakotágkos) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Hindi: आरंगुटान (āraṅguṭān) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Hindi: ओरंगोटंग (oraṅgoṭaṅg) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Hungarian: orangután — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Icelandic: órangútan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Ido: orangutano — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Indonesian: orang utan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Indonesian: mawas — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Ingrian: orang-utan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Irish: órang-útan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Italian: orango — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Japanese: オランウータン (oran'ūtan) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Japanese: 猩猩 (shōjō) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Kashubian: orangùtan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Kazakh: орангутан (orañutan) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Korean: 오랑우탄 (orang'utan) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Latvian: orangutans — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Lithuanian: orangutãnas — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Lithuanian: orangutángas — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Macedonian: орангутан (orangutan) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Malay: orang utan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Malay: mawas — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Manx: apey jiarg — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Māori: tuahuru — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Central Melanau: mayaih — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Tagal Murut: kagui — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Navajo: mágí diʼilí — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Polish: orangutan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Portuguese: orangotango — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Romanian: urangutan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Russian: орангута́н (orangután) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Russian: орангута́нг (orangutáng) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Inari-Sami: oraŋgi — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Sebop: kuyang — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Serbo-Croatian: орангу̀та̄н — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Serbo-Croatian: orangùtān — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Spanish: orangután — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Swedish: orangutang — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Tagalog: urangutang — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Tày: báo đông — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Thai: อุรังอุตัง (ù-rang-ù-dtang) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Tibetan: སྤྲ (spra) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Turkish: orangutan — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Uab Meto: atoinfui — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Ukrainian: орангутан (oranhutan) — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Urdu: اورنگوٹان — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Vietnamese: đười ươi — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Welsh: orangwtang — arboreal anthropoid ape
• Yiddish: אָראַנג־אוטאַנג (orang-utang) — arboreal anthropoid ape