orange

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See also: Orange and orangé

English

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

Etymology

From Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“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 ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)).

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

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

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (UK) [ˈɔɹɪnd͡ʒ]:(file)
  • Audio (CA) [ˈɔɹənd͡ʒ]:(file)
  • Audio (Swiss) [ˈɔɹɪnd͡ʒ]:(file)
  • Homophone: Orange
  • Rhymes: -ɒɹɪndʒ
  • Hyphenation: or‧ange, orange

Noun

orange (countable and uncountable, plural oranges)

  1. An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis.
  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:  
    Synonym: (uncommon) yellowred
  4. Orange juice.
  5. Orange coloured and flavoured cordial.
  6. Orange coloured and flavoured soft drink.

Usage notes

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Esperanto: oranĝo
  • → Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
  • → Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)
  • → Malay: oren

Translations

Adjective

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.

Antonyms

Translations

Verb

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  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
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    • 2010, Justin Cronin, The Passage, page 330:
      "What about his eyes?" / "Nothing. No oranging at all, from what I could see.

See also

Colors/Colours in English (layout · text)
             red          orange              yellow              green              blue (incl.      indigo;
             cyan, teal, turquoise) 		             purple / violet
         pink (including
         magenta) 		         brown      white              grey/gray      black

References

Anagrams

French

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).

Pronunciation

Noun

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.

Descendants

Noun

orange m (plural oranges)

  1. orange (color)

Derived terms

Adjective

orange (invariable)

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

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.

See also

Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text)
     blanc      gris      noir
             rouge; cramoisi, carmin              orange; brun, marron              jaune; crème
             lime              vert              menthe
             cyan, turquoise; bleu canard              azur, bleu ciel              bleu
             violet, lilas; indigo              magenta; pourpre              rose

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From the noun Orange (“orange fruit”), from French orange.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "predicative only" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /oˈrãːʃ/, /oˈraŋʃ/, /oˈrɔ̃ːʃ/, /oˈrɔŋʃ/
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  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

orange (comparative oranger or orangener, superlative am orangesten or am orangensten)

  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.

Declension

Standard forms

Template:de-decl-adj

Colloquial forms

Template:de-decl-adj

Further reading

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from French orange.

Pronunciation

Adjective

orange (masculine orangen, neuter oranget, comparative méi orange, superlative am orangesten)

  1. orange

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

See also

Colors in Luxembourgish · Faarwen (layout · text)
     wäiss      gro      schwaarz
             rout              orange; brong              giel
                          gréng             
             turquoise              blo (hellblo, himmelblo)              blo (donkelblo)
             violett; indigo              magenta; mof              rosa; pink

Middle English

Noun

orange

  1. Alternative form of orenge

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Jersey):(file)

Adjective

orange m or f

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) orange

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French orange. See English orange.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʊˈranʃ/, (southern) /ʊˈraŋɧ/
  • audio:(file)

Adjective

orange (comparative orangeare, superlative orangeast)

  1. orange

Noun

orange ?

  1. orange (color)
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