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”),[1] 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.[1] In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.

For other cases of incorrect division (or, elision/rebracketing) like the Italian word above, see Category:English rebracketings.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ŏrʹĭnj, ŏrʹĭnzh; IPA^(key): /ˈɒɹ.ɨnd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹ.ɨnʒ/, /ˈɒɹ.ənd͡ʒ/

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• (General American, Canada) enPR: ôrʹĭnj; IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ɪ̈nd͡ʒ/, /ˈɔɹ.ənd͡ʒ/, /ˈɔɹnd͡ʒ/

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• (US, East Coast) enPR: ärʹĭnj, ŏrʹĭnj; IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.ɪ̈nd͡ʒ/, /ˈɒɹ.ɪ̈nd͡ʒ/, /ˈɔɹ.ɪ̈ŋʒ/

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• Homophone: Orange
• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪndʒ, -ɒɹəndʒ (see notes)
• Hyphenation: or‧ange

orange (countable and uncountable, plural oranges)

1. (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
2. (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
   1. (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
3. (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.

   orange:  

   Synonym: yellow-red

4. (uncommon) Various drinks:
   • 2015 March 31, Debbie McGowan, Two By Two, Beaten Track Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:

     “What you drinking?” “Orange and soda will go down nicely, thanks.” “Pint?” “Sure.” Andy headed for the bar, stopping along the way to kiss Shaunna and check she and Kris were OK for a drink. “Everything all right?” Sean asked.

   • 2015 May 7, Tosh Lavery, Tosh: An Amazing True Story Of Life, Death, Danger And Drama In The Garda Sub-Aqua Unit, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

     I ran out into the street and around the block, searching everywhere, and finally burst into O'Dowd's pub around the corner to see Thomas sitting at the bar drinking orange and eating a bag of crisps with two old men.

   • 2018 May 25, Michael Nilsen, Beyond the Cave, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 82:

     It transpired this lad was drinking orange and faculties were keen. There were one or two verbal exchanges, then I followed him into the car park. He said to the doorman, 'I won't be long.' He easily knocked me to the ground.

   • 2021 June 10, Anna McPartlin, Waiting for the Miracle: Warm your heart this winter with this uplifting novel from the bestselling author of THE LAST DAYS OF RABBIT HAYES, Bonnier Zaffre Ltd., →ISBN:

     When the fast songs played, like the Beatles' 'Help' or The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction', Justin and I sat on two wooden chairs, drinking orange and holding hands. When the nuns weren't watching, I rested my head on his shoulder.

   1. (uncountable) Orange juice.
   2. (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
   3. (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
5. (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:orange.

• 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.[2] In such dialects, the two forms are generally allophonic.

• fruit
  • citrus

• → Esperanto: oranĝo
• → Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
• → Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)
• → Makah: ʔo·linčas
• → Malay: oren
• → Marshallese: oran

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

• nonorange
• orange man bad
• orangely
• orangeness

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, Jazz & twelve o'clock tales: new stories, 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.

• orange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• South Dravidian Etymology Sergei & George Starostin, 1998-2013.

• Gerona, 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
• Homophones: orangent, 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: ара́нжавы (aránžavy)
• → Bulgarian: ора́нжев (oránžev)
• → German: Orange
• Haitian Creole: zoranj
• → Latvian: oranžs
• Louisiana Creole: zoranj
• → Low German: Orange
• → Luxembourgish: Orange
• → Norwegian: oransje
• → Romanian: oranj
• → Russian: ора́нжевый (oránževyj)
• → 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• onagre, organe, rongea

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

• (predicative only) IPA^(key): /oˈʁãːʃ/, /oˈʁaŋʃ/, /oˈʁɔ̃ːʃ/, /oˈʁɔŋʃ/
• (non-predicative feminine and plural forms) IPA^(key): /oˈʁãːʒə/, /oˈʁaŋʒə/, /oˈʁɔ̃ːʒə/, /oˈʁɔŋʒə/

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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

• 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.