different between orangutan vs gibbon

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

Etymology

Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from an Aslian language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b?n/
• Rhymes: -?b?n

Noun

gibbon (plural gibbons)

1. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
   • 1950, Evelyn Waugh, Helena.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• gibbon at OneLook Dictionary Search
• gibbon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gibbon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gobbin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gibbon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.b?n/
• Hyphenation: gib?bon

Noun

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. gibbon, primate of the family Hylobatidae

French

Etymology

Brought to Europe from French India by Joseph François Dupleix, probably from an English folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) with an Aslian root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.b??/

Noun

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. Gibbon

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “gibbon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “gibbon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References