orange

From Middle English orenge, orange, 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)).

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ŏrʹĭnj, -ĭnzh, IPA^(key): /ˈɒɹɨn(d)ʒ/
• (US, East Coast) enPR: ärʹĭnj, ŏrʹĭnj, IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹɪ̈nd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹ-/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: ôrʹĭnj, IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹɪ̈nd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ(ɪ)nd͡ʒ/, /ˈɔɹənt͡ʃ/

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• Homophone: Orange
• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪndʒ
• Hyphenation: or‧ange, orange

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 colour:  

   Synonym: yellowred (uncommon)

4. Orange juice.
5. Orange coloured and flavoured cordial.
6. Orange coloured and flavoured soft drink.

• 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), the English surname Gorringe is a rhyme, at least in UK pronunciation. See the Wikipedia article about rhymes for the word “orange”

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

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.

• (having orange as its colour): nonorange

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, (Please provide the book title or journal name), 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.

• Gorean, Ragone, groane, onager

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).

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁɑ̃ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃ʒ
• Homophone: oranges

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.

• → Breton: orañjez
• → Belarusian: аранжавы (aranžavy)
• → Bulgarian: оранжевый (oranževыj)
• → German: Orange
• → Latvian: oranžs
• → Low German: Orange
• → Luxembourgish: Orange
• → Norwegian: oransje
• → Romanian: oranj
• → Russian: оранжевый (oranževyj)
• → Swedish: orange

orange m (plural oranges)

1. orange (color)

• oranger
• Orangina

orange (invariable)

1. orange

   Les premiers TGV atlantiques étaient orange.

   The first Atlantic TGV trains were orange.

While theoretically the adjective orange is invariable, being (originally) a colour name derived from a noun, the nonstandard plural oranges is in use.

• “orange” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• onagre, organe, rongea

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

• (predicative only) IPA^(key): /oˈrãːʃ/, /oˈraŋʃ/, /oˈrɔ̃ːʃ/, /oˈrɔŋʃ/
• (non-predicative feminine and plural forms) IPA^(key): /oˈrãːʒə/, /oˈraŋʒə/, /oˈrɔ̃ːʒə/, /oˈrɔŋʒə/

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

1. orange

• 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.

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Colloquial forms

• orange in Duden online

Borrowed from French orange.

• IPA^(key): /oˈʁɑ̃ːʃ/

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

1. orange

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orange

1. Alternative form of orenge

• oraunge (Cotentin)

From Old French.

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orange m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) orange

Borrowed from French orange. See English orange.

• IPA^(key): /ʊˈranʃ/, (southern) /ʊˈraŋɧ/

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orange (comparative orangeare, superlative orangeast)

1. orange

orange ?

1. orange (color)