orang

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated: a shortened form of orangutan, the large arboreal ape native to Borneo and Sumatra

   The nineteenth-century naturalist repeatedly shortened orangutan to orang.

A shortening of orangutan, ultimately from Malay orang hutan ("forest person"), from orang ("person") and hutan ("forest"). The clipped English form orang is now dated.

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