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orangutan
orangutan

That's the Malay word for a left-handed person.

Do any other languages have a special name / adjective for left-handed people?

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misterbee
misterbee

English...

lefty
southpaw

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vinnyd
vinnyd

French Gaucher
Italian Mancino
German Linkshänder
Arabic أعسر, a'sar
Turkish Solak

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orangutan
orangutan

The German one just literally translates to lefthander. How about the rest?

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bjd
bjd

The French and German words too.

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vinnyd
vinnyd

I thought you were looking for foreign equivalents of English "lefthander", like Malay kidal. Doesn't kidal translate literally into English as "lefthander"?

Perhaps I misunderstood.

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tonieja
tonieja

Mańkut in Polish means lefthanded. There's neither 'left' nor 'hand' in the word.
There's also a synonym, 'leworęczny' meaning literally lefthanded.

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orangutan
orangutan

Sorry, #5. The Malay word means neither left or hand, which was why I said a special name/adjective for it. Like southpaw in #1.

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vinnyd
vinnyd

South in southpaw means left. Paw in southpaw means hand.

The Arabic doesn't have "left" or "hand" in it. The French and Turkish derive from the words for left. The Italian derives from the word for hand.

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itsasmallworld1
itsasmallworld1

Zurdo, in Spanish, doesn't contain either hand or left in it. Not sure of its origin, easily googleable I guess.

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