orenge

Middle English

Alternative forms

orange, orynge, arange, araunge

Etymology

From Old French orenge, from Old Occitan auranja, from Arabic نَارَنْج‎‎ (nāranj).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔrɛndʒ(ə)/, /ˈɔrəndʒ(ə)/

Noun

orenge (plural orenges)

(Late ME) orange (orange-coloured citrus fruit)
(Late ME, rare) orange (A tree that bears oranges)

Descendants

English: orange
- → Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
- → Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)
- → Malay: oren
Scots: orange, oranger

References

“oranǧe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-2.

Old French

Noun

orenge f (oblique plural orenges, nominative singular orenge, nominative plural orenges)

orange (fruit)

Descendants

French: orange
- → 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
→ Middle English: orenge, orange
- English: orange
  - → Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
  - → Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)
  - → Malay: oren
Norman: orange, oraunge

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (orange, supplement)

orange on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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