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)

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

Descendants

• English: orange
  • → Esperanto: oranĝo
  • → Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
  • → Kashubian: orendż (Canada, United States)
  • → 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan auranja.

Noun

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

1. 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