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单词 lotong
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lotongn.

Brit. /ˈləʊtɒŋ/, U.S. /ˈloʊtɔŋ/, /ˈloʊtɑŋ/
Forms:

α. 1800s– lutung.

β. 1800s– lotong.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Javanese. Partly a borrowing from Malay. Etymons: Javanese lutung; Malay lotong.
Etymology: Partly (in α. forms) < Javanese lutung, and partly (in β. forms) < its cognate Malay lotong, both denoting a kind of black monkey.
Any of several herbivorous monkeys of the genus Trachypithecus (family Cercopithecidae), of South and South-East Asia.
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Negro monkey1771
douc1774
simpai1820
lotong1824
entellus1843
Hanuman1843
Sumatran monkey1849
Sumatra monkey1877
tchincou1891
1820 T. S. Raffles in Philos. Mag. 56 453 Other species are named [by the natives] Chingkau, Simpai, Kra, and Lotong.]
1824 T. Horsfield Zool. Res. Java (at cited word) Semnopithecus Maurus. The name of the latter [monkey] is Lutung; but the Malays and Europeans apply this name to both species.
1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. vii. 432 Of the genus Semnopithecus are..the Lotong, or Semnopithecus Maurus, of F. Cuvier; the kra, etc.
1936 G. B. Gardner Keris v. 95 They have a curved iron handle forged on, resembling the tail of a lotong monkey.
1965 C. Shuttleworth Malayan Safari 10 A lotong (leaf monkey) chattered its alarm call near by.
2014 Times (Nexis) 5 Apr. (Saturday Review section) 40 There are monkeys of every shape and hue—emperor tamarins, silvery lutungs, Japanese and Barbary macaques.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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