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English

Etymology

basket +? ball

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??s.k?t.b??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæs.k?t.b??l/

Noun

basketball (countable and uncountable, plural basketballs)

1. (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

   Synonym: (US slang) hoops

2. (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)

1. To play basketball
   • 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward

     by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league

2. To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball
   • 1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies

     He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of basketball

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English basketball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?sk?tba?l/, [?b???s???d??b???l]

Noun

basketball c (singular definite basketballen, not used in plural form)

1. basketball

Synonyms

• (sport): basket
• (ball): basketbold

See also

• basketball on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Noun

basketball m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of basket-ball

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English basketball.

Noun

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)

1. basketball (ball game)

   Synonym: basket

References

• “basketball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “basketball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English basketball.

Noun

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)

1. basketball (ball game)

   Synonym: korgball

References

• “basketball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and (n)arancia (“orange”), from Arabic ????????? (n?ranj), from Persian ?????? (nârang), from Sanskrit ?????? (n?ra?ga, “orange tree”), from Dravidian (compare Tamil ????????????? (n?rtta?k?y), compound of ??????? (narantam, “fragrance”) and ???? (k?y, “fruit”); also Telugu ??????? (n?ra?gamu), Malayalam ?????? (n?ra??a), Kannada ?????? (n?ra?gi)).

For other similar cases of the incorrect division (or, elision/rebracketing) of the above Italian word, but in English, see Category:English rebracketings.

For the color sense, see Old English ?eolur?ad (literally “yellow-red”); compare English blue-green.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?r??nj, -?nzh, IPA^(key): /????n(d)?/
• (US, East Coast) enPR: är??nj, ?r??nj, IPA^(key): /?????nd??/, /???-/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: ôr??nj, IPA^(key): /?????nd??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???(?)nd??/, /????nt??/
• Homophone: Orange
• Rhymes: -???nd?
• Hyphenation: or?ange, orange

Noun

orange (countable and uncountable, plural oranges)

1. (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis.
2. (countable) The fruit of the orange tree; a citrus fruit with a slightly sour flavour.
3. The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.

   Synonym: (uncommon) yellowred

4. Various drinks:
   1. (uncountable) Orange juice.
   2. (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
   3. (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.

Usage notes

• It is commonly stated that “orange” has no rhymes. While there are no commonly used English dictionary words that rhyme exactly with “orange” (“door-hinge” comes close in US pronunciation), the English surname Gorringe is a rhyme, at least in UK pronunciation. See the Wikipedia article about rhymes for the word “orange”

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Esperanto: oran?o
• ? Japanese: ???? (orenji)
• ? Korean: ??? (orenji)
• ? Malay: oren
• ? Marshallese: oran

Translations

Adjective

orange (comparative oranger or more orange, superlative orangest or most orange)

1. Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

Antonyms

• (having orange as its colour): nonorange

Translations

Verb

orange (third-person singular simple present oranges, present participle oranging, simple past and past participle oranged)

1. (transitive) To color orange.
2. (intransitive) To become orange.

See also

References

• orange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gorean, Ragone, groane, onager

French

Etymology

Short form of late Old French pume orenge or pomme d'orenge, which was calqued after Old Italian melarancia (mela + arancia). The o came into the word under influence of the place name Orange, from where these fruits came to the north.See orange (English).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.????/
• Rhymes: -???
• Homophone: oranges

Noun

orange f (plural oranges)

1. orange (fruit)

Descendants

• ? Breton: orañjez
• ? Belarusian: ????????? (aránžavy)
• ? Bulgarian: ???????? (oránžev)
• ? German: Orange
• ? Latvian: oranžs
• ? Low German: Orange
• ? Luxembourgish: Orange
• ? Norwegian: oransje
• ? Romanian: oranj
• ? Russian: ?????????? (oránževyj)
• ? Swedish: orange

Noun

orange m (plural oranges)

1. orange (color)

Derived terms

• oranger
• Orangina

Adjective

orange (invariable)

1. orange

Usage notes

While theoretically the adjective orange is invariable, being (originally) a colour name derived from a noun, the nonstandard plural oranges is in use.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

• “orange” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• onagre, organe, rongea

German

Etymology

From the noun Orange (“orange fruit”), from French orange.

Pronunciation

• (predicative only) IPA^(key): /o??ã??/, /o??a??/, /o??????/, /o?????/
• (non-predicative feminine and plural forms) IPA^(key): /o??ã???/, /o??a???/, /o???????/, /o??????/

Adjective

orange (comparative oranger or orangener, superlative am orangesten or am orangensten)

1. orange

Usage notes

• The adjective has two sets of forms. In the formal standard language, endings are added directly to the stem (orang-). In less formal style and in the vernacular, another set of forms is used in free variation, in which an -n- is infixed before the endings.
• It is also officially correct to leave the adjective entirely undeclined. This usage is rare, however, and seems dated.

Declension

Standard forms

Colloquial forms

Further reading

• “orange” in Duden online

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from French orange.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??????/

Adjective

orange (masculine orangen, neuter oranget, comparative méi orange, superlative am orangesten)

1. orange

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

See also

Middle English

Noun

orange

1. Alternative form of orenge

Norman

Alternative forms

• oraunge (Cotentin)

Etymology

From Old French.

Pronunciation

Adjective

orange m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) orange

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French orange. See English orange.

Pronunciation

• (indefinite common singular) IPA^(key): /??ran?/, (southern) /??ra??/
• (indefinite neuter singular) IPA^(key): /??ran?t/, (southern) /??ra??t/
• (definite masculine singular) IPA^(key): /??ran??/, (southern) /??ra???/
• (definite or plural) IPA^(key): /??ran?a/, (southern) /??ra??a/

Adjective

orange

1. orange

Declension

Less common:

Noun

orange ?

1. orange (color)