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#2This title is too clever for its own good - the article itself is actually a neat little peek at the semantics of the name for the fruit we call “orange.”
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#3"Portugal" is what you call oranges in some Arabic dialects as well. I have a Moroccan friend who refers to me as an Orange, because I'm Portuguese :-)
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#4Romanian language calls oranges "portocale" so definitely Persian origin by route of the Ottoman Empire. In Turkish it's "portakallar".
Speaking of weird names, we don't call oranges orange but we do call tomatoes "reds" (roșii).
And we call corn "pigeon" (porumb - from "palumbus" which is Latin for pigeon).
To finish, the Romanian word for "chainsaw" comes from Russian but neither Romanians know what it means in Russian nor do Russians suspect what it got to mean in Romanian. So "chainsaw" in Romanian - drujba - means "friendship" - Дружба - in Russian. Therefore when someone comes with the friendship at you, you better run, we'd have "The Texas friendship massacre" :)
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#5"Portugal" is what you call oranges in some Arabic dialects as well. I have a Moroccan friend who refers to me as an Orange, because I'm Portuguese :-)
What does he call the band?
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#6Romanian language calls oranges "portocale" so definitely Persian origin by route of the Ottoman Empire. In Turkish it's "portakallar". Speaking of weird names, we don't call oranges orange but we do call tomatoes "reds" (roșii). And we call corn "pigeon" (porumb - from "palumbus" which is Latin for pigeon). To finish, the Romanian word for "chainsaw" comes from Russian but neither Romanians know what it means in Rus…
nit; portakallar is the plural of portakal, meaning orange (the fruit)
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#7https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/110890462230/the-wor... to see how various countries come out
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#8Funny enough it seems in Persian there's no clear distinction between lime and lemon. My wife calls both "limoo". She does however claim there's a particular cultivars "limoo Shirin" that is supposedly very sweet (and hard to find outside of Iran)
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#9My favorite example of this is turkey, the bird, being named after Turkey, India, or Peru, depending on the language being spoken.
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#10Interestingly enough, Orange is called "oranju" in Tamil, a Dravidian language.