orange

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English [edit]

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Various shades of orange.
Some oranges (the fruits).
An orange tree.

Etymology [edit]

Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge 'Persian orange', literally 'orange apple', influenced by Old Provençal auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela 'apple' and (n)arancia 'orange', from Arabic نارنج (nāranj), from Persian نارنگ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), from Dravidian (compare Tamil nartankāy, compound of நரந்தம் (narantam, “fragrance”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము (nāraṅgamu), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅga), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)).

For the color sense, replaced Old English geoluread (“yellow-red”); compare Modern English blue-green.

Pronunciation [edit]

Usage notes [edit]

  • It is commonly believed that “orange” has no rhymes. While there are no commonly used English dictionary words that rhyme exactly with “orange” (“door-hinge” comes close in US pronunciation), the English surname Gorringe is a rhyme, at least in UK pronunciation. See the Wikipedia article about rhymes for the word “orange”

Noun [edit]

orange (plural oranges)

  1. An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus aurantium.
  2. The fruit of an orange tree; a citrus fruit with a slightly sour flavour.
  3. The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
    orange colour:    

Derived terms [edit]

Derived terms

Translations [edit]

tree
fruit
colour
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Adjective [edit]

orange (comparative oranger or more orange, superlative orangest or most orange)

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

Translations [edit]

having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree

Verb [edit]

orange (third-person singular simple present oranges, present participle oranging, simple past and past participle oranged)

  1. (transitive) To color orange.
    • 1986, Gilles Deleuze, Cinema: The movement-image, page 118:
      It is this composition which reaches a colourist perfection in Le Bonheur with the complementarity of violet, purple and oranged gold
    • 1987, Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie, page 256:
      Jeff winked his eyes sleepily open and looked out into the cool flush of early morning. The east was oranged over with daybreak.
    • 2009, Suzanne Crowley, The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous, page 117:
      I looked at him through my binoculars, his little lips oranged with Cheeto dust.
  2. (intransitive) To become orange.
    • 2007, Terézia Mora, Day in day out, page 296:
      Cranes in the distance against the background of the slowly oranging sky
    • 2008, Wanda Coleman, , page 14:
      It will be followed by a disappearance of the cash I had hidden in a sealed envelope behind the oranging Modigliani print over the living room couch.
    • 2010, Justin Cronin, The Passage, page 330:
      "What about his eyes?" / "Nothing. No oranging at all, from what I could see.

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Anagrams [edit]

French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Short form of late Old French pume orenge or pomme d'orenge, which was calqued after Old Italian melarancia (mela + arancia). The o came into the word under influence of the place name Orange, from where these fruits came to the north. See orange (English).

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

orange f (plural oranges)

  1. orange (fruit)
    Il pressa l’orange afin d’en extraire du jus.
    He squeezed the orange to extract juice from it.

Noun [edit]

orange m (plural oranges)

  1. orange (color)

Derived terms [edit]

Adjective [edit]

orange m and f (invariable)

  1. orange
    Les premiers TGV atlantiques étaient orange.
    The first Atlantic TGV trains were orange.

Usage notes [edit]

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

Anagrams [edit]

German [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From the noun Orange

Pronunciation [edit]

Adjective [edit]

orange (not comparable)

  1. orange-coloured

Declension [edit]

    Declension of orange
gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist orang sie ist orang es ist orang sie sind orang
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative oranger orange oranges orange
genitive orangen oranger orangen oranger
dative orangem oranger orangem orangen
accusative orangen orange oranges orange
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der orange die orange das orange die orangen
genitive des orangen der orangen des orangen der orangen
dative dem orangen der orangen dem orangen den orangen
accusative den orangen die orange das orange die orangen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein oranger eine orange ein oranges (keine) orangen
genitive eines orangen einer orangen eines orangen (keiner) orangen
dative einem orangen einer orangen einem orangen (keinen) orangen
accusative einen orangen eine orange ein oranges (keine) orangen

Guernésiais [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old French.

Adjective [edit]

orange (epicene, plural oranges)

  1. orange

Jèrriais [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old French.

Adjective [edit]

orange (epicene, plural oranges)

  1. orange

Luxembourgish [edit]

Adjective [edit]

orange

  1. orange

See also [edit]

(basic colors) Faarf; blo, brong, giel, gréng, gro, mof, orange, rout, schwaarz, wäiss (Category: lb:Colors)

Swedish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From French orange. See orange (English).

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ʊˈranɧ/, /ʊˈranɕ/
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Adjective [edit]

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Inflections of orange
Comparation by mer and mest
Indefinite
singular		 Common orange
Neuter orange
Definite
singular		 Masc. orange
All orange, orangea
Plural orange, orangea

orange

  1. orange

Noun [edit]

orange

  1. orange (colour)
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