orang-utan的词源

英文词源

orang-utan

orang-utan: [17] Malay ōrang ūtan means literally ‘wild man’. It probably originated as a term used by those who lived in open, more densely populated areas for the ‘uncivilized’ tribes who lived in the forest, but was taken by early European travellers to refer to the large red-haired ape that inhabits the same forests. The word may well have reached English via Dutch.

中文词源

orang-utan：猩猩

来自马来语orang utan,森林人，来自orang,人，utan,森林。其原义可能为森林野人，后被荷兰人误以为是森林里面的猩猩。

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