orange
Meanings
Plural: oranges
Noun
- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- any pigment producing the orange color
- a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean
- An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
- Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- Various drinks:
- Orange juice.
- Various drinks
- An orange-coloured roundel.
Adjective Satellite
- of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange
Adj
- Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.
Verb
- To color orange.
- To become orange.
Origin / Etymology
Etymology tree
Doric Greek μῆλον (mêlon)bor.?
Latin mālum
Italian mela
Proto-Mon-Khmer *lŋaamder.?
Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga)bor.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Italian arancio
Italian arancia
Old Italian melaranciacalq.
Old French Orengeinflu.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj)bor.
Old Occitan auranjainflu.
Old French pomme d'orenge
Old French orenge
Middle French orangebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange
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”), 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. In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.
Synonyms
amber, coral, ginger, gold, golden brown, orange, Orange River, orange tree, orangeness, orangish, topaz, yellow-red
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 7
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