orange

Etymology
,, from , influenced by the place name (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and color) and by  and calqued from , , compound of  and , from , from Early , from , ultimately from. Compare 🇨🇬, compound of and ; also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

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, whence.

For other cases of incorrect division (or, elision/rebracketing) like the Italian word above, see Category:English rebracketings.

Noun

 * 1)  An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as  which yields oranges (the fruit).
 * 2)  Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
 * 3)  Specifically, a sweet orange or.
 * 4)  The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
 * 5)  Orange juice.
 * 6)  An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
 * 7)  An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
 * 8)  An orange-coloured roundel.
 * 1)  Orange juice.
 * 2)  An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
 * 3)  An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
 * 4)  An orange-coloured roundel.
 * 1)  An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
 * 2)  An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
 * 3)  An orange-coloured roundel.

Usage notes

 * It is commonly stated that orange has no rhymes. While there are no commonly used English dictionary words that rhyme exactly with orange ( comes close in US pronunciation), see Rhymes:English/ɒɹɪndʒ for some possibilities. See also the Wikipedia article about rhymes for the word orange
 * In most dialects, orange is pronounced with two syllables. But in certain dialects of North American English, the vowel of the second syllable is deleted and the word is pronounced as one syllable. In such dialects, the two forms are generally allophonic.

Hypernyms

 * fruit

Adjective

 * 1) Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

Translations

 * Akan: ɔrenge
 * American Sign Language: C@NearChin Squeeze
 * Arabic: بُرْتُقَالِيّ
 * Armenian:, գազարագույն
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ,
 * Asturian: ,
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: портока́лов,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 橙色
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: rudhvelyn, melynrudh
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, brandgeel,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κιρρός
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hunsrik: ranschegelleb
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ពណ៌លឿង
 * Korean: 주황색(朱黃色)-의
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: oranžinis
 * Louisiana Creole French: zoranj
 * Low German: orange
 * Macedonian: портокалов
 * Malay:
 * Manx: oranje-vuigh
 * Maori:
 * Norman: orange, oraunge
 * Norwegian:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, laranjado, ,
 * Quechua: killmu
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: orainds
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: на̀ра̄нџаст
 * Roman:
 * Silesian: apluzinowy
 * Slovak: oranžový
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: alanya
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, , apelsinfärgad
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Urdu: نارنگی
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: אָראַנזש
 * Yoruba: bí ọsán, bí òrombó

Verb

 * 1)  To color orange.
 * 2)  To become orange.
 * 1)  To become orange.
 * 1)  To become orange.
 * 1)  To become orange.

Etymology
Short form of late or pomme d'orenge, which was calqued after  ( + ). The o came into the word under influence of the place name, from where these fruits came to the north. See (English).

Noun

 * 1)  fruit

Noun

 * 1)  color

Usage notes

 * While theoretically the adjective orange is invariable, being (originally) a colour name derived from a noun, the nonstandard plural is in use.

Etymology
From the noun, from.

Adjective

 * 1) orange

Usage notes

 * The adjective has two sets of forms. In the formal standard language, endings are added directly to the stem (orang-). In less formal style and in the vernacular, another set of forms is used in free variation, in which an -n- is infixed before the endings.
 * It is also officially correct to leave the adjective entirely undeclined. This usage is rare, however, and seems dated.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
Borrowed from. See 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) orange

Declension

 * Less common:

Noun

 * 1) orange color