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"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 :-)
My favorite example of this is turkey, the bird, being named after Turkey, India, or Peru, depending on the language being spoken.
Interestingly enough, Orange is called "oranju" in Tamil, a Dravidian language.
The oranges that are commercially sold must be sweeter cultivars introduced later on, after English adoption, because of which we ended up calling these oranges.
Edit: Even Tamil is the English term for Thamizh.
Very cool. Also, in Farsi tomatoes are called "foreign plums" and strawberries are called "foreign berries" i.e. gojeh farangi, and toot farangi
Funny 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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We don't have this distinction in Brazilian Portuguese too. When you refer to lemons you're usually referring to the green lime (which is called "limão-taiti", meaning tahiti lemon). When we want to refer to the yellow lemon (the common lemon outside South America) we usually say Sicilian lemon. There's another very common type of lime which we refer to as "limão-capeta" (devil's lemon), it's a small, orange-color li…
Limão Capeta must be what we call Limão Galego or Limão Bergamota or Limão Cravo in the south. It has more names than tangerines and makes a great caipirinha.
Funny 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)
I can’t recall having the sour variety of lemon in Iran. There’s lemon (english lime), and there’s sweet lemon. Well, it is only sweet if you have it in the first couple of seconds after opening. After exposure to the air, it doesn’t taste that great.
Funny 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)
Lime is called "limoo Shirazi", meaning Lemon of Shiraz (a city). But you are right that both are usually just called limoo. Limoo Shirin is a rather common fruit here, I didn't expect that it is not easily found outside Iran. Although it doesn't taste that good and is usually mixed with orange juice or consumed for health benefits (it's considered good for preventing/treating cold).
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We don't have this distinction in Brazilian Portuguese too. When you refer to lemons you're usually referring to the green lime (which is called "limão-taiti", meaning tahiti lemon). When we want to refer to the yellow lemon (the common lemon outside South America) we usually say Sicilian lemon. There's another very common type of lime which we refer to as "limão-capeta" (devil's lemon), it's a small, orange-color li…
Limão Capeta must be what we call Limão Galego or Limão Bergamota or Limão Cravo in the south. It has more names than tangerines and makes a great caipirinha.