orange

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Of the colour between red and yellow.

   She wore a bright orange jacket.

2. 2
   noun

   The colour between red and yellow.

   He painted the wall a warm shade of orange.

3. 3
   verb

   To make something orange in colour.

   The setting sun oranged the whole sky.

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Simplified etymology

Orange was first recorded in English in medieval times, and its name goes back through Arabic to Persian nārang. The Arabs brought the bitter or Seville orange to Sicily in the Middle Ages, and it spread from there through Europe. In the 16th century the Portuguese brought the sweet orange from China; it was initially distinguished as a China orange and later became the fruit ordinarily called an orange.

Etymology tree ▲ Italian melaranciacalq. Old French Orengeinflu. ▲ 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 نَ…

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