órans

See also: orans

Icelandic

Etymology

From Danish orange, from French orange (“orange (fruit, color)”), from Old French pome orenge (“Persian orange”), literally “orange apple”, influenced by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and (n)arancia (“orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Persian نارنگ (nârang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), from Dravidian (compare Tamil நார்த்தங்காய் (nārttaṅkāy), compound of நரந்தம் (narantam, “fragrance”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము (nāraṅgamu), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ಕಿತ್ತಳೆ (kittaḷe)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈouːrans/
• Rhymes: -ouːrans

Adjective

órans (invariable)

1. (dated) orange

Synonyms

• (orange): appelsínugulur