Orange

[orchidfire]

What is the word for the color "orange" in the languages that you know? And for the fruit "orange"?

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[pne]

German: "orange" (/o'rantS/) - colour; "Orange" (/o'randZ@/) - fruit.

Modern Greek: πορτοκαλί - colour; πορτοκάλι - fruit.

Interesting that both those languages use the same (basic) spelling for both words, *but different pronunciations*.

(Though German can be the same in inflected forms; for example, in "eine orange Orange" 'an orange orange', I'd pronounce both words the same.)

[magpyr]

Farsi

Fruit: پرتقال (porteghal) color: نارنجی (närenji)

Literally, narenji means "like narenj (sour orange)."

Korean

Fruit: 오렌지 (orenji) color: 주황색 (chuhuangsek) (색 means color)

[clare_dragonfly]

Spanish:
fruit: naranja
color: anaranjada

Welsh: both are the same, "oren."

[oconel]

color: naranja (at least in Spain) (anaranjado means "of an orange colour")

[clare_dragonfly]

You know, I was wondering about that. Of course "anaranjado" would be the adjective. I wonder if there's a distinction in any other language?

[superluminal]

Esperanto:

• fruit: oranĝo
• color: oranĝa or oranĝkolora

[nerakrose]

icelandic:
-colour: appelsínugulur (gulur = yellow, so it's a compound word)
-fruit: appelsína


danish:
-colour: orange (pronounced differently from english)
-fruit: appelsin

finnish:
-colour: oranssi
-fruit: appelsiini

[holyschist]

Huh, the fruit is апельсин (apelsin) in Russian--I wouldn't have expected that.

[wonder]

Japanese:
Color - オレンジ色 orenji-iro (iro being color)
Fruit - 橙・だいだい daidai (bitter orange); 蜜柑・みかん mikan (mandarin orange/tangerine thing)

idk what a normal sweet orange is, probably just orenji. somebody else probably knows more about this than me orz

[franzeska]

A navel orange type orange is also 'orenji', unsurprisingly. I'm sure there are plenty of other native names for local citrus.

[wonder]

Yeah, there's all sorts of weird hybrids and imported fruit, too. I tried looking at Wikipedia for more info and wow.

[horusporus]

For Malay, both is 'oren', though to be specific, 'buah oren' is the fruit. There's actually another word for the colour: 'jingga', which is used interchangeably in common speech.

[second]

In French, both are "Orange".

And now, looking at the word 'orange', doesn't it look funny? It's one of those words that always look misspelled.

[hyperbole]

Swedish:
Colour - orange
Fruit - apelsin

Orange-the-colour is most Swedish language users' worst nightmare. It's just as stupid as beige and ... some others in that they don't have any obvious conjugations. I always attempt to avoid using it, because otherwise someone who has different standards than I do might think I'm stupid.

[ex_heracles30]

In Arabic, the fruit is برتقال, and the color (which is derived from the name of the fruit) is برتقالي.

[orchidfire]

Oh, cool. Could you transcribe those in IPA or some other phonetic format?

[ex_heracles30]

Oh sure, sorry about that. I always get a little confused on transcribing, but the orange (fruit) sounds like burtuqal, and the color is burtuquali, or if you're describing an object with a feminine ending, it's burtuqualiya.

[patupaiarehe]

In Italian: arancia is the fruit and arancione is the colour.

[naive]

Norwegian:

Orange (fruit) - appelsin
Orange (color) - oransje

I can't find the transcription, but I do know that the word appelsin comes from the German Apfelsine which means Chinese apple.

[absque_setentia]

Oh THAT'S where it comes from! I've been wondering where Scandinavia and Germany got that word. :-)

[milkymoon]

A language others haven't mentioned:
Romanian - portocaliu, at least for the colour. (I'm cheating a bit, as I only know a little Romanian, but enough for that.)

[kaizoku]

In Dutch, the fruit is sinaasappel (lit. China's apple according to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sinaasappel). I think the color is oranje.

[coldlikedeath]

Danish:

colour: orange (pronounced differently from english)
fruit: appelsin

Finnish:
-colour: oranssi
-fruit: appelsiini

Someone's already mentioned Norwegian.

Irish: oráiste

Polish: pomarańcza (fruit), pomarańczowy (colour)

Russian: апельсин (apel'sin- fruit) and оранжевый (oranzhevij- colour)

[katkaminion]

Wow this comes in late, but hey, I guess I might as well, since nobody did this one.

Portuguese

Fruit: laranja
Color: laranja


They have the same pronunciation, too.