toranja

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تُرُنْجَة (turunja, “citron”). Compare Spanish toronja (“grapefruit”) and Catalan taronja (“orange”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: to‧ran‧ja

Noun

toranja f (plural toranjas)

  1. grapefruit (fruit)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “toranja” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ^ “toranja” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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