How many languages use the word "ORANGE" for both a fruit and a colour?

Question

I know it works in English and French.
So how many more are there?

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

German does. It's Orange/orange (pronounced differently). And English IS a Germanic language.

Actually, in 10th grade I did a major project on the city of Cordoba in World History. The color was named for the fruit, at least in English. The fruit got imported from the Arab world via Spain, and then the word was used to coin the color as well.

Answer 3

Welsh does (oren for both) and Arabic does (burtuqala and burtuqali).

Russian doesn't. An orange is апельсин, but the colour is оранжевый.

Similarly, Slovene has Pomaranča for the fruit, but oranžna for the colour.

I'd add that although German can use the same word, it also has an alternative word for orange: Apfelsine, which is related to the Russian word (though clearly Russian got it from a Germanic language, not the other way round).

Answer 4

German does and does not
orange (colour) and Orange (fruit) is used and understood someone mentioned it before that it is pronounced differently
the color is pronounced french (the e at the end is dropped) the fruit is pronounced almost the same but the e at the end is heard.
In Germany (never in Austria) the word Apfelsine is also used for the fruit (similar as in Dutch) it means "Chinese Apple"

Answer 5

i think of of the fruit. i assume its as a results of fact the fruit has greater to do with our senses than purely the eyes. as an occasion: The fruit orange appeals to our experience of touch, scent, sight, and of direction style. on the different hand the colour is purely for the experience of sight

Answer 6

Mandarin Chinese:

Gan Guo = Orange (fruit)

Gan Huang = literally 'Yellowish' Orange which means orange colour.

Vietnamese = Cam (exact spelling)

Usually we will add the world 'colour or fruit'

Mau Cam - orange colour
Trai Cam - orange fruit
Qua Cam - orange fruit

Answer 7

In Italian the fruit is arancia, the orange tree is arancio and the colour is arancione: this is the official rule. However, a lot of people call both the fruit and the colour 'arancio'. So:
-la mia maglietta è arancio/arancione (my T-shirt is orange).
-mangio un arancio/un'arancia (I'm eating an orange).
-c'è un arancio nel mio giardinio (there's an orange tree in my garden).

Answer 8

Arabic :

the fruit: bortoqal [ single= bortoqala ]

the colour: bortoqali

Answer 9

Romanian too, although under another form, as the name of the fruit is "portocala", and the name of the colour is "portocaliu" (as you would say in English "orangish") .Oh, and did you notice? it comes from the name of the country Portugal

Answer 10

In Hebrew they are different:
כָּתֹם Katom- the Color
תַּפּוּז Tapuz- the Fruit

Answer 11

Not Swedish. They don't even have a word for orange the colour. They call it 'brandgul' which translates as 'fire yellow'.