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# orang

«orang» in Mova's school dictionary: **Short for orangutan, the large red-haired ape of Borneo…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an orang, orangs); also a word in Malay

### meaning for a pupil

1) Short for orangutan, the large red-haired ape of Borneo and Sumatra. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orang/#m1)

2) (Malay, Indonesian) «Orang» means «person» or «people»; orangutan means «person of the forest». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orang/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons on rainforests and endangered animals: orangutans are great apes that live in trees, and are in danger from forests being cut down for palm oil. «Orang» on its own is a short, less common form. It is not related to the colour orange.

### examples

- The orang swung from branch to branch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orang/#x1)
- Orangs build a new nest of leaves every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orang/#x2)
- «Orangutan» comes from Malay words meaning «person of the forest». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orang/#x3)
- In Malay, «orang» means person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orang/#x4)
- The zoo has two orangs and a baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orang/#x5)
- Orangs are in danger because their forests are being cut down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orang/#x6)

### note

Countable. Spelling trap: «orangutan» (also orang-utan), not «orangutang». Not the same as «orange». Use «an» before it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «orang» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orang/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.