wuraṅutan

Old Javanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Malay [script needed] (urang hutan), equivalent to modern Malay orang (“person”) + hutan (“forest”).[1]

Noun

wuraṅutan

  1. orangutan

Descendants

  • Javanese: urangutan / ꦲꦸꦫꦔꦸꦠꦤ꧀

References

  1. ^ 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

Further reading

  • "wuraṅutan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
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