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In Romanian the word for orange (the fruit) is portocal\u0103<\/strong> [porto\u02c8kal\u0259]. This comes from the Greek \u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03c4\u03bf\u03ba\u03ac\u03bb\u03b9<\/em> (portok\u00e1li – orange), from the Venetian portogallo<\/em> (orange), from the Italian Portogallo<\/em> (Portugal).<\/p>\n An number of other languages get their word for orange from the same root:<\/p>\n – Albanian: portokall Portuguese merchants were probably the first to introduce oranges to Europe, hence the link between oranges and Portugal.<\/p>\n In some languages oranges are known as “Chinese apples”: Apfelsine<\/em> (German), appelsien \/ sinaasappel<\/em> (Dutch), apelsin<\/em> (Swedish), etc. This makes sense as oranges were first cultivated in China in about 2,500 BC.<\/p>\n Words for oranges in some Slavic languages come from the Old French pomme d’orenge<\/em>: pomeran\u010d<\/em> (Czech), pomaran\u010da<\/em> (Slovene), pomara\u0144cza<\/em> (Polish). <\/p>\n The word orange<\/strong> derives from \u0928\u093e\u0930\u0919\u094d\u0917 (n\u0101ra\u1e45ga) – “orange tree” in Sanskrit, which is probably of Dravidian origin. The word for orange in Portuguese, laranja<\/em>, comes from this root.<\/p>\n The colour orange was named after the fruit. In Old English the colour orange was referred to as \u0121eolur\u0113ad<\/em> (yellow-red), or \u0121eolucrog<\/em> (yellow-saffron) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n Souces: Wiktionary<\/a>, WordReference.com<\/a>, Google Translate<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>, Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Romanian the word for orange (the fruit) is portocal\u0103 [porto\u02c8kal\u0259]. This comes from the Greek \u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03c4\u03bf\u03ba\u03ac\u03bb\u03b9 (portok\u00e1li – orange), from the Venetian portogallo (orange), from the Italian Portogallo (Portugal). An number of other languages get their word for orange from the same root: – Albanian: portokall – Amharic: \u1265\u122d\u1271\u12ab\u1293\u121b (biritukanama) – Arabic: \u0628\u0631\u062a\u0642\u0627\u0644 (burtuqaal) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,93,99,102,104,107,115,116,128,10,37,39,41,60,61,67,74,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-bulgarian","category-czech","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-georgian","category-german","category-italian","category-language","category-persian-farsi","category-polish","category-portuguese","category-slovak","category-slovenian","category-swedish","category-turkish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Amharic: \u1265\u122d\u1271\u12ab\u1293\u121b (biritukanama)
\n– Arabic: \u0628\u0631\u062a\u0642\u0627\u0644 (burtuqaal)
\n– Azerbaijani: porta\u011fal
\n– Bulgarian: \u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u043e\u043a\u0430\u043b (portokal)
\n– Georgian: \u10e4\u10dd\u10e0\u10d7\u10dd\u10ee\u10d0\u10da\u10d8 (p\u2019ort\u2019okhali)
\n– Macedonian: \u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u043e\u043a\u0430\u043b (portokal)
\n– Persian (Farsi): \u067e\u0631\u062a\u0642\u0627\u0644 (portegh\u00e2l)
\n– Turkish: portakal<\/p>\n