Where does “urangutan” come from?
urangutan (Romanian) comes from French orang-outan, 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 — scrubland; bush.
urangutan (Romanian): orangutan
Ancestry of “urangutan”, step by step