English

Proper noun

Orange

1. The longest river in South Africa
2. A city in California
3. A town in Connecticut
4. A town in France.
5. An unincorporated town in Indiana
6. A town in Massachusetts
7. A town in New Hampshire
8. A township in New Jersey
9. A city in New South Wales
10. A town in New York
11. A village in northeastern Ohio
12. A city in Texas
13. A town in Vermont
14. A town in Virginia
15. A town in Wisconsin
16. The name of the Dutch Royal House.
17. Prince or Princess of Orange. Title of the first-born to the Dutch Royal House.

Derived terms

Adjective

Orange ‎(not comparable)

1. Relating to the Orange Order.

Anagrams

• groane
• onager

French

Etymology

From from Old French Orenge, from Medieval Latin Aurasica, from Latin Aurasiō, from Gaulish *arausi 'temple (head), cheek' (compare Old Irish ara, arae 'temples', Irish placename Arai Chiach). Compare also the Occitan name of the town, Aurenja.

Noun

Orange

1. Orange (town in the Vaucluse department in southern France)

See also

• orange

German

Etymology

From French pomme d'orange (short: orange), from Spanish naranja, from Arabic نَارَنْج ‎(nāranj), from Persian نارنگ ‎(nārang). Cognate with German Pomeranze.^[1]

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /oˈʁãːʒə/, /oˈʁaŋʒə/, /oˈʁɔ̃ːʒə/, /oˈʁɔŋʒə/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /oˈʁãːʃə/, /oˈʁaŋʃə/, /oˈʁɔ̃ːʃə/, /oˈʁɔŋʃə/ (some speakers in southern Germany and Austria)

Noun

Orange f ‎(genitive Orange, plural Orangen)

1. orange (fruit)

Declension

Synonyms

• Apfelsine

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /oˈʁãːʃ/, /oˈʁaŋʃ/, /oˈʁɔ̃ːʃ/, /oˈʁɔŋʃ/

Noun

Orange n ‎(genitive Orange, no plural)

1. orange (color)

See also

References

1. ↑ Friedrich Kluge, “Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache” , 22. Auflage, 1989, bearbeitet von Elmar Seebold, ISBN 3-11-006800-1

Italian

Etymology

From French Orange, from Old French Orenge, from Medieval Latin Aurasica, from Latin Aurasiō, from Gaulish.

Proper noun

Orange m

1. Orange (town in France)
2. Orange (river in South Africa)

Luxembourgish

Noun

Orange f ‎(plural Orangen)

1. orange (fruit)

English

Various shades of orange.

Some oranges (the fruits).

An orange tree.

Noun

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:

4. Orange juice, or orange coloured and flavoured cordial.

Usage notes

• It is commonly believed 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”

Derived terms

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.

Antonyms

• (having orange as its colour): nonorange

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 title of the work), 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

• citrus
• clementine
• Cointreau
• curaçao
• mandarin
• marmalade
• murcott
• naartjie
• ortanique
• pomander
• satsuma
• satsuma mandarin
• satsuma tangerine
• secondary colour
• tangerine
• triple sec
• zest

Anagrams

• groane, onager

French

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/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃ʒ
• Homophone: 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.

Noun

orange m ‎(plural oranges)

1. orange (color)

Derived terms

• oranger
• Orangina

Adjective

orange m, f ‎(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.

Anagrams

• onagre, organe, rongea

See also

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈrãːʃ/, /oˈraŋʃ/, /oˈrɔ̃ːʃ/, /oˈrɔŋʃ/

Adjective

orange ‎(comparative oranger or orangener, superlative am orangesten or 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, a third 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

Standard forms

Colloquial forms

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowing from French orange.

Adjective

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

1. orange

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

See also

Norman

Alternative forms

• oraunge (Cotentin)

Etymology

From Old French.

Pronunciation

Adjective

orange m, f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) orange

Swedish

Etymology

From French orange. See orange (English).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊˈranɧ/, /ʊˈranɕ/

Adjective

orange (comparative orangeare, superlative orangeast)

1. orange

Declension

Noun

orange ?

1. orange (color)