orange
Meaning
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- An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- Various drinks:
- Various drinks:
- Various drinks:
- Various drinks
- An orange-coloured roundel.
Frequency
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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