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English

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??l.??s/, /?w?l.??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?l.??s/, /?w?l.??s/

Noun

walrus (plural walruses or walrus or walrusses or (both nonstandard, proscribed, uncommon) walri or walrii)

1. A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
   • 1887 — James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251.

     Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:walrus.

Synonyms

• morse (obsolete)
• sea horse (rare)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• seal
• sea lion, sealion

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch walrus, probably from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross, from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (“horse-whale”).

Noun

walrus (plural walrusse)

1. walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Cebuano

Etymology

From English walrus, from Danish hvalros, an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (literally “horse-whale”). The term may have entered English via Dutch walrus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: wal?rus

Noun

walrus

1. a walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Dutch

Etymology

The origin of this word is not wholly certain, with several theories proposed. Probably borrowed from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross, from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (“horse-whale”). Equivalent to wal (“whale; large sea-animal”) +? ros (“horse”). The Old Norse word may, however, been a folk-etymological modification of Old Norse rossmal, related to Proto-Germanic *rusta-, from the rust colour of the animal. Preference for borrowing the inverted form could have been due to the influence of the already existing Dutch compound walvis (“whale”, literally “whale-fish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???lr?s/
• Hyphenation: wal?rus

Noun

walrus m (plural walrussen, diminutive walrusje n)

1. walrus, any member of the family Odobenidae of which Odobenus rosmarus is the sole extant member

Derived terms

• walrussnor
• walrustand

Descendants

• Afrikaans: walrus

References

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)