different between orange vs jaguar

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)

English

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îaûara.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?æ?j??/, /?d?æ?ju???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?æ?w??/, /?d?æ?(j)u.??/, /?d?æ?wa??/

Noun

jaguar (plural jaguars)

1. A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.

Translations

See also

• jaguarundi
• jaguar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Panthera onca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars)

1. jaguar

Further reading

• “jaguar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “jaguar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “jaguar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “jaguar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from French jaguar, from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara. The contemporary pronunciation derives from English jaguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??.?u??r/, /?d??.?u??r/
• (dated in the Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?ja?.?y??r/
• Hyphenation: ja?gu?ar

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars, diminutive jaguartje n)

1. jaguar [from late 18th c.]
   • 1777, De Buffon, De algemeene en byzondere natuurlyke historie, vol. 5, part 1, tr. from French, J. H. Schneider (publ.), page 5.

Derived terms

• weerjaguar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?wa?/

Noun

jaguar m or f (plural jaguars)

1. (masculine) jaguar (cat)
2. (masculine) Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2)
3. (feminine) jaguar (car)
4. (feminine) Jaguar (British car manufacturer)

Further reading

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

Malay

Alternative forms

• ???????

Etymology

From English jaguar, from Portuguese, from Old Tupi jaguara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??a?ua(r)/
• Rhymes: -ua(r), -wa(r), -a(r)

Noun

jaguar (Jawi spelling ??????)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara

Noun

jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarer, definite plural jaguarene)

1. a jaguar, genus Panthera onca

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara

Noun

jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarar, definite plural jaguarane)

1. a jaguar, genus Panthera onca

References

• “jaguar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja??u.ar/

Noun

jaguar m anim

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)
2. Jaguar car

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Tupi îaûara. Doublet of jaguara.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.??wa?/
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): [?a.??wa?], [?a.??wa?], [?a.??wa?]
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): [?a.??wa?], [?a.??wa?]
  • (Carioca) IPA^(key): [?a.??wa?]

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of Latin America)

   Synonyms: onça, onça-pintada

Usage notes

In Brazil, jaguars are more commonly called onça or onça-pintada, and jaguar is mainly used in literature.

Related terms

• jaguara, jaguaraíva, jaguaré, jaguaretê, jaguatirica

Descendants

• ? English: jaguar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French jaguar.

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguari)

1. jaguar

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jâ?ua?r/
• Hyphenation: ja?gu?ar

Noun

j?gu?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. jaguar

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa??wa?/, [xa???wa?]

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

   Synonym: yaguareté

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French jaguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??.??.??]

Noun

jaguar (definite accusative jaguar?, plural jaguarlar)

1. jaguar

Declension