orange
- n.
- 柑橘，桔子，橘色
- adj.
- 橘色的
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 继承自 ←中古英语 orenge
- 源自 ←古法语 pome orenge “fruit orange”
- 源自 ←古奥克语 auranja
- 源自 ←roa-oit melarancio
- 源自 ←阿拉伯语 نَارَنْج
- 源自 ←fa-cls نَارَنْگْ
- 源自 ←梵语 नारङ्ग “orange tree”
- 源自 ←dra
词源说明
Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and colour) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)). Doublet of aranzada.
Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the colour in 1510. In the colour sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.
释义（英文）
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- (heraldry) A rarely-used nontraditional tincture found in Catalan, South African, and French municipal heraldry.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured