orenge

Middle English

Alternative forms

arange, araunge, orange, orynge

Etymology

From Old French orenge, from Old Occitan auranja, from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔˈrɛnd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ɔˈra(u̯)nd͡ʒ(ə)/, /a-/, /ˈɔrind͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

orenge (plural orenges)

(Late Middle English) orange (orange-coloured citrus fruit)
(Late Middle English, rare) orange (A tree that bears oranges)

Descendants

English: orange
- → Esperanto: oranĝo
- → Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
- → Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)
- → Makah: ʔo·linčas
- → Malay: oren
- → Marshallese: oran
Scots: orange, oranger

References

“oranǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-2.

Old French

Noun

orenge oblique singular, f (oblique plural orenges, nominative singular orenge, nominative plural orenges)

orange (fruit)

Descendants

French: orange (see there for further descendants)
Norman: orange, oraunge
→ Middle English: orenge, orange
- English: orange (see there for further descendants)

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (orange, supplement)

orange on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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