different between orangutan vs crow

English

Alternative forms

• orang utan, orang-utan, orang-utang, orangutang, orangoutan, orangoutang

Etymology

From Malay orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”); literally, "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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???æ?.?.tæn/, /???æ?.??tæ?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???æ?.??tæn/, /???æ?.??tæ?/

Noun

orangutan (plural orangutans)

1. 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: ???????????? (ourakotágkos)
• ? Hungarian: orangután
• ? Italian: orangutan, orango
• ? Japanese: ??????? (oran'?tan)
• ? Polish: orangutan
• ? Russian: ????????? (orangutan)
  • ? Armenian: ?????????? (?rangutan)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ???????????
  • Latin: orangùt?n
• ? Spanish: orangután
  • ? Galician: orangután
• ? Swedish: orangutang
• ? Thai: ?????????? (ù-rang-ù-dtang)
• ? Turkish: orangutan

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.???.?u?tan/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.???.?u?tan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.?a?.?u?tan/

Noun

orangutan m (plural orangutans)

1. orangutan

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ora??utan]

Noun

orangutan m anim

1. orangutan

Derived terms

• orangutaní

Further reading

• orangutan in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• orangutan in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 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)

1. orangutan

Polish

Etymology

From English orangutan, from Malay orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.ran??u.tan/

Noun

orangutan m anim

1. orangutan

Declension

Further reading

• orangutan in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• orangutan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oran??ta?n/
• Hyphenation: o?ran?gu?tan

Noun

orangùt?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????????)

1. orangutan

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Noun

orangutan

1. orangutan

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???/
• (US) enPR: kr?, IPA^(key): /k?o?/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English crowe, from Old English cr?we, from Proto-Germanic *kr?w? (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *kr?han? ‘to crow’. See below.

Noun

crow (plural crows)

1. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
2. The cry of the rooster.

   Synonym: cock-a-doodle-doo

3. Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
4. A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.

   Synonym: crowbar

5. (historical) A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
6. (among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
7. (ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A black person.
8. (military, slang) The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
   • 2002, Ed Goodrich, Riggers that Dive (page 46)

     A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen.

   • 2003, Jonathan T. Malay, Seraphim Sky (page 106)

     The young man had been threatened with loss of his third class rank, his “crow,” the eagle in a petty officer's sleeve insignia.

Derived terms

Related terms

• crow eater
• eat crow

Translations

See also

• caw
• murder of crows (“flock of crows”)
• raven

Further reading

• Corvus (boarding device) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Middle English crowen, from Old English cr?wan (past tense cr?ow, past participle cr?wen), from Proto-Germanic *kr?an?, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gerH- (“to cry hoarsely”).

Compare Dutch kraaien, German krähen, Lithuanian gróti, Russian ??????? (grájat?)). Related to croak.

Verb

crow (third-person singular simple present crows, present participle crowing, simple past crowed or (UK) crew, past participle crowed or (archaic) crown)

1. (intransitive) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
2. (intransitive) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
3. (intransitive, music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.

Usage notes

The past tense crew in modern usage is confined to literary and metaphorical uses, usually with reference to the story of Peter in Luke 22.60. The past participle crown is similarly poetical.

Translations

• Tashelhiyt: uddn,sqiqqiy

References

Further reading

• crow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Worc

Middle English

Noun

crow

1. Alternative form of crowe