Where does “اورانغوتان” come from?
اورانغوتان (Ottoman Turkish) comes from French orangoutan, 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.
Ancestry of “اورانغوتان”, step by step