Where does “orangutan” come from?
orangutan (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish اورانغوتان, 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 — scrubland; bush.
orangutan (Turkish): orangutan
Ancestry of “orangutan”, step by step