orange definition

English orange definition

Etymology

From Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced 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 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.

In the color sense, largely replaced Old English ġeolurēad, English yellow-red (compare English blue-green).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ŏrʹĭnj, ŏrʹĭnzh; IPA^(key): /ˈɒɹ.ɨnd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹ.ɨnʒ/
• (US, East Coast) enPR: ärʹĭnj, ŏrʹĭnj; IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.ɪ̈nd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹ.ɪ̈nd͡ʒ/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: ôrʹĭnj; IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ɪ̈nd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ɪnd͡ʒ/, /ˈɔɹ.ənd͡ʒ/, /ˈɔɹnd͡ʒ/

• Audio (UK) [ˈɔɹɪnd͡ʒ]

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• Audio (CA) [ˈɔɹənd͡ʒ]

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

Noun

orange (countable and uncountable, plural oranges)

1. (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis.
2. (countable) The fruit of the 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: yellow-red

4. Various drinks:
   1. (uncountable) Orange juice.
   2. (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
   3. (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.

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.^[1]

Derived terms

Descendants

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

• nonorange
• orangely
• orangeness

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, (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.

See also

Colors in English · colors, colours (layout · text)

white	gray, grey	black
red; crimson	orange; brown	yellow; cream
lime, lime green	green	mint
cyan; teal	azure, sky blue	blue
violet; indigo	magenta; purple	pink

References

• orange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gerona, Gorean, Ragone, groane, onager

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French orange definition

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

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁɑ̃ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃ʒ
• Homophones: orangent, oranges

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

• → Breton: orañjez
• → Belarusian: ара́нжавы (aránžavy)
• → Bulgarian: ора́нжев (oránžev)
• → German: Orange
• Haitian Creole: zoranj
• → Latvian: oranžs
• Louisiana Creole French: zoranj
• → Low German: Orange
• → Luxembourgish: Orange
• → Norwegian: oransje
• → Romanian: oranj
• → Russian: ора́нжевый (oránževyj)
• → Swedish: orange

Noun

orange m (plural oranges)

1. orange (color)

Derived terms

• oranger
• Orangina

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	orange; brun	jaune; crème
vert citron	vert	menthe
cyan; bleu canard	azur	bleu
violet; indigo	magenta; pourpre	rose

Further reading

• “orange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• onagre, organe, rongea

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German orange definition

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/

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Adjective

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

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Luxembourgish orange definition

Etymology

Borrowed from French orange.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈʁɑ̃ːʃ/

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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

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Middle English orange definition

Noun

orange

1. Alternative form of orenge

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Norman orange definition

Alternative forms

• oraunge (Cotentin)

Etymology

From Old French.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

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Adjective

orange m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) orange

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Swedish orange definition

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/

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Adjective

orange

1. orange

   Hon har långt, orange hår.

   She has long, orange hair.

Declension

Inflection of orange
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	orange	orangeare	orangeaste
Neuter singular	orange	orangeare	orangeaste
Plural	orange	orangeare	orangeaste
Masculine plural3	orange	orangeare	orangeaste
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	orange	orangeare	orangeaste
All	orange	orangeare	orangeaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Less common:

Inflection of orange
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	orange	orangeare	orangeaste
Neuter singular	oranget	orangeare	orangeaste
Plural	orangea	orangeare	orangeaste
Masculine plural3	orangea	orangeare	orangeaste
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	orange	orangeare	orangeaste
All	orangea	orangeare	orangeaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Inflection of orange
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	orange	orangare	orangast
Neuter singular	orangt	orangare	orangast
Plural	oranga	orangare	orangast
Masculine plural3	orange	orangare	orangast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	orange	orangare	orangaste
All	oranga	orangare	orangaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Noun

orange ?

1. orange (color)