where from the name originates?
It comes from the Malay words "orang", meaning "man", and "hutan", meaning "forest".
Orangutan
The name "orangutan" (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang) is derived from the Malay words "orang", meaning "man", and "hutan", meaning "forest".
what is an orangutan? It is a great ape native to Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Orangutan [SEP] Etymology
The name "orangutan" (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang) is derived from the Malay words "orang", meaning "man", and "hutan", meaning "forest". The locals originally used the name to refer to actual forest-dwelling people. The first attestation of the word for the apes is in Dutch physician Jacobus Bontius' 1631 "Historiae naturalis et medicae Indiae orientalis". He reported that Malays had informed him the ape could talk, but preferred not to "lest he be compelled to labour". The word appeared in several German-language descriptions of Indonesian zoology in the 17th century. The likely origin of the word comes specifically from the Banjarese variety of Malay.