Where does “orangutan” come from?
orangutan (Italian) comes from English orangutan, from Malay Orang Utan, from Dutch orang-oetan, from Malay orang hutan, from Indonesian hutan, from Malay hutan, from Proto-Malayic hutan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qutan — scrubland; bush.
orangutan (Italian): orangutan
Ancestry of “orangutan”, step by step