orange

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[edit] English

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

[edit] Etymology

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 (cf. 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 geoluhread (“yellow-red”);[1] compare Modern English blue-green.

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  • 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”

[edit] Noun

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 orange (the fruit); a color midway between red and yellow.

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fruit
colour
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[edit] Adjective

orange (comparative more orange, superlative most orange)

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

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colour

[edit] Verb

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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[edit] References

  1. ^ Kenner, T.A. (2006). Symbols and their hidden meanings. New York: Thunders Mouth. p. 11. ISBN 1560259493.

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

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).

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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.

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orange m. (plural oranges)

  1. orange (color)

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orange m. and f. inv.

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

[edit] Usage notes

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

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[edit] German

[edit] Etymology

From the noun Orange

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orange (not comparable)

  1. orange-coloured

[edit] Luxembourgish

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orange

  1. orange

[edit] See also

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

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Etymology

From French orange. See orange (English).

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʊˈranɧ/, /ʊˈranɕ/
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Inflections of orange
Comparation by mer and mest
Indefinite
singular		 Common orange
Neuter orange, oranget
Definite
singular		 Masc. orange
All orange
Plural orange, orangea

orange

  1. orange

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orange

  1. orange (colour)
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