orange

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Meaning

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
or‧ange
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɒɹ.ɨnd͡ʒ/
Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Mon-Khmer *lŋaamder.? Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga)bor. Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor. Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj)bor. Old Occitan auranjabor. Old French orengebor. Middle English orenge English orange Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and color) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)). Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the color in 1510. In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red. For other cases of incorrect division (or, elision/rebracketing) like the Italian word above, see :Category:English rebracketings.

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