orangutan

Etymology
From + ; literally, "forest man". Other names for the animal are and.

The name orangutan has been used in Old Javanese texts, notably in Rāmāyaṇa and in Smaradahana in the form of uraŋutan and wuraŋutan. The usage of the word to refer to the apes in these texts opposes the belief of the name orangutan originating from a European source.

Noun

 * 1) Any of three species of arboreal anthropoid ape, characterised by their shaggy reddish-brown coat and long arms, which comprise the genus ;  of Borneo,  of Sumatra or  of South Tapanuli (in Sumatra).

Usage notes

 * Formerly considered a single species.
 * First described scientifically in 1758 by as Homo Sylvestris.
 * Renamed Simia pygmaeus in 1760 by his student Christian Emmanuel Hopp, then placed in by Lacépède in 1799.
 * From 1996, divided into two species: the Bornean orangutan (, with three subspecies) and the Sumatran orangutan.
 * The third species, the Tapanuli orangutan, was identified definitively in 2017.

Translations

 * Arabic: إِنْسَان اَلْغَاب
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: ওৰাংওটাং
 * Asturian:
 * Bau Bidayuh: mayas
 * Belarusian: арангутан
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: kogiu
 * Central Melanau: mayaih
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎶᏂᎨ ᎠᏓᎵᏍᎩᏱᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 紅毛猩猩
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: orangutango
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ორანგუტანი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: आरंगुटान,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: órangútan
 * Ido:
 * Inari Sami: oraŋgi
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: orang-utan
 * Irish: órang-útan
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 오랑우탄
 * Latvian: orangutans
 * Macedonian: орангутан
 * Malay:, mawas
 * Manx: apey jiarg
 * Maori: tuahuru
 * Navajo: mágí diʼilí
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sebop: kuyang
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: орангу̀та̄н
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagal Murut: kagui
 * Tagalog: urangutang
 * Thai: อุรังอุตัง
 * Tibetan: སྤྲ
 * Turkish:
 * Tày: báo đông
 * Uab Meto: atoinfui
 * Ukrainian: орангутан
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: orangwtang
 * West Coast Bajau: begiu, mawas

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Noun

 * 1) orangutan