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See also: Orange and orangé

English

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

Etymology

    Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (fruit orange), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and color) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (apple) and un'arancia (an orange), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, orange tree),[1] ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, water) and காய் (kāy, fruit); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)).

    Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the color in 1510.[1] In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    orange (countable and uncountable, plural oranges)

    1. (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
    2. (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
      1. (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
    3. (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
      orange:  
      Synonym: yellow-red
    4. (uncountable) Various drinks:
      • 2015 March 31, Debbie McGowan, Two By Two, Beaten Track Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:
        “What you drinking?” “Orange and soda will go down nicely, thanks.” “Pint?” “Sure.” Andy headed for the bar, stopping along the way to kiss Shaunna and check she and Kris were OK for a drink. “Everything all right?” Sean asked.
      • 2015 May 7, Tosh Lavery, Tosh: An Amazing True Story Of Life, Death, Danger And Drama In The Garda Sub-Aqua Unit, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
        I ran out into the street and around the block, searching everywhere, and finally burst into O'Dowd's pub around the corner to see Thomas sitting at the bar drinking orange and eating a bag of crisps with two old men.
      • 2018 May 25, Michael Nilsen, Beyond the Cave, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 82:
        It transpired this lad was drinking orange and faculties were keen. There were one or two verbal exchanges, then I followed him into the car park. He said to the doorman, 'I won't be long.' He easily knocked me to the ground.
      • 2021 June 10, Anna McPartlin, Waiting for the Miracle: Warm your heart this winter with this uplifting novel from the bestselling author of THE LAST DAYS OF RABBIT HAYES, Bonnier Zaffre Ltd., →ISBN:
        When the fast songs played, like the Beatles' 'Help' or The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction', Justin and I sat on two wooden chairs, drinking orange and holding hands. When the nuns weren't watching, I rested my head on his shoulder.
      1. An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
      2. An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
      3. (uncommon) Orange juice.
    5. (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.

    Usage notes

    • It is commonly stated 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), see Rhymes:English/ɒɹɪndʒ for some possibilities. See also the Wikipedia article about rhymes for the word orange
    • In most dialects, orange is pronounced with two syllables. But in certain dialects of North American English, the vowel of the second syllable is deleted and the word is pronounced as one syllable.[2] In such dialects, the two forms are generally allophonic.

    Hypernyms

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Esperanto: oranĝo
    • Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
    • Kashubian: orendż (Canada, United States)
    • Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)
    • Makah: ʔo·linčas
    • Malay: oren
    • Marshallese: oran

    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.
      Antonym: nonorange

    Derived terms

    Translations

    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, Jazz & twelve o'clock tales: new stories, 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.

    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              gray/grey      black

    References

    Anagrams

    French

    Etymology

      Inherited from Middle French orange, from Old French orenge, short form of late pomme d'orenge or pomme d'orange, which was calqued after Old Italian melarancia (mela + arancia). The o came into the word under influence of the place name Orange. See English orange.

      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.

      Derived terms

      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

      • (predicative only) IPA(key): /oˈʁãːʃ/, /oˈʁaŋʃ/, /oˈʁɔ̃ːʃ/, /oˈʁɔŋʃ/
      • (non-predicative feminine and plural forms) IPA(key): /oˈʁãːʒə/, /oˈʁaŋʒə/, /oˈʁɔ̃ːʒə/, /oˈʁɔŋʒə/
      • Audio:(file)

      Adjective

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      orange (strong nominative masculine singular (standard) oranger or (colloquial) orangener, comparative (standard) oranger or (colloquial) orangener, superlative (standard) am orangesten or (colloquial) 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

      Further reading

      • orange” in Duden online
      • orange” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

      Limburgish

      Noun

      orange f

      1. Veldeke spelling of Orasch

      Luxembourgish

      Etymology

      Borrowed from French orange.

      Pronunciation

      Adjective

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

      1. orange

      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

      Middle French

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

        From Old French orenge, from pomme d'orenge.

        Noun

        orange f (plural oranges)

        1. orange (fruit of the orange tree)

        Descendants

        References

        • orange on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

        Norman

        Alternative forms

        Etymology

        From Old French orenge.

        Pronunciation

        Adjective

        orange m or f

        1. (Jersey, Guernsey) orange

        Old French

        Noun

        orange oblique singularf (oblique plural oranges, nominative singular orange, nominative plural oranges)

        Swedish

        Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
        Wikipedia sv

        Etymology

        Borrowed from French orange. See English orange.

        Pronunciation

        • (indefinite common singular) IPA(key): /ʊˈranɕ/, (southern) /ʊˈraŋɧ/
        • (indefinite neuter singular) IPA(key): /ʊˈranɕt/, (southern) /ʊˈraŋɧt/
        • (definite masculine singular) IPA(key): /ʊˈranɕɛ/, (southern) /ʊˈraŋɧɛ/
        • (definite or plural) IPA(key): /ʊˈranɕa/, (southern) /ʊˈraŋɧa/
        • Audio:(file)

        Adjective

        orange

        1. orange (orange-colored)
          Hon har långt, orange hår.
          She has long, orange hair.
          en orange apelsin
          an orange orange

        Declension

        Inflection of orange
        Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
        common singular orange orangeare orangeaste
        neuter singular orange orangeare orangeaste
        plural orange orangeare orangeaste
        masculine plural2 orange orangeare orangeaste
        Definite positive comparative superlative
        masculine singular3 orange orangeare orangeaste
        all orange orangeare orangeaste

        1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
        2 Dated or archaic.
        3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

        Less common:
        Inflection of orange
        Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
        common singular orange orangeare orangeaste
        neuter singular oranget orangeare orangeaste
        plural orangea orangeare orangeaste
        masculine plural2 orangea orangeare orangeaste
        Definite positive comparative superlative
        masculine singular3 orange orangeare orangeaste
        all orangea orangeare orangeaste

        1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
        2 Dated or archaic.
        3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

        Inflection of orange
        Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
        common singular orange orangare orangast
        neuter singular orangt orangare orangast
        plural oranga orangare orangast
        masculine plural2 orange orangare orangast
        Definite positive comparative superlative
        masculine singular3 orange orangare orangaste
        all oranga orangare orangaste

        1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
        2 Dated or archaic.
        3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

        Noun

        orange ?

        1. orange (color)

        References