aranciu

From Arabic ⁧نَارَنْج⁩ (nāranj), from Persian ⁧نارنگ⁩ (nârang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), from Dravidian (compare Tamil நார்த்தங்காய் (nārttaṅkāy), compound of நரந்தம் (narantam, “fragrance”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము (nāraṅgamu), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)).

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾan.t͡ʃʊ/, [aˈɾaŋ.t͡ʃʊ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ràn‧ciu

aranciu m

1. orange (fruit)

• In Sicilian - fruit names are generally masculine because of their derivation from Latin - neutral gender used to indicate the progeny of parent plants (cfr. Sicilian pumu, piru), so that the use of feminine - and Italian homonym - arancia is to be considered an Italian superstrate influence.

• partugallu

• arancino
• arancia
• arancio