orange

Citrus sinensis
Citrus sinensis#Translingual

(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.

(countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.

orange:

(uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.

An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.

An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.

(uncountable) Various drinks:
(uncommon) Orange juice.

“What you drinking?” “Orange and soda will go down nicely, thanks.” “Pint?” “Sure.” Andy headed for the bar, stopping along the way to kiss Shaunna and check she and Kris were OK for a drink. “Everything all right?” Sean asked.

2015 March 31, Debbie McGowan, Two By Two, Beaten Track Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:

I ran out into the street and around the block, searching everywhere, and finally burst into O'Dowd's pub around the corner to see Thomas sitting at the bar drinking orange and eating a bag of crisps with two old men.

2015 May 7, Tosh Lavery, Tosh: An Amazing True Story Of Life, Death, Danger And Drama In The Garda Sub-Aqua Unit, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

It transpired this lad was drinking orange and faculties were keen. There were one or two verbal exchanges, then I followed him into the car park. He said to the doorman, 'I won't be long.' He easily knocked me to the ground.

2018 May 25, Michael Nilsen, Beyond the Cave, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 82:

When the fast songs played, like the Beatles' 'Help' or The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction', Justin and I sat on two wooden chairs, drinking orange and holding hands. When the nuns weren't watching, I rested my head on his shoulder.

2021 June 10, Anna McPartlin, Waiting for the Miracle: Warm your heart this winter with this uplifting novel from the bestselling author of THE LAST DAYS OF RABBIT HAYES, Bonnier Zaffre Ltd., →ISBN:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:orange.

en-noun

orange (countable and uncountable, plural oranges)

there's more than one way to peel an orange

→ Esperanto: oranĝo

→ Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)

desc

→ Kashubian: orendż (Canada, United States)

→ Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)

→ Makah: ʔo·linčas

→ Malay: oren

→ Marshallese: oran

橘子

technically "tangerine", but often used as "orange"

Etymology tree
Doric Greek μῆλον (mêlon)bor.?
Latin mālum
Italian mela
Proto-Mon-Khmer *lŋaamder.?
Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga)bor.
Persian نارنگbor.
Italian arancio
Italian arancia
Old Italian melaranciacalq.
Old French Orengeinflu.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj)bor.
Old Occitan auranjainflu.
Old French pomme d'orenge
Old French orenge
Middle French orangebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange
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 color) 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)).
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 color in 1510. In the color sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.

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Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy)

నారంగము, నారింజ


orange

Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

en-adj

orange (comparative oranger or more orange, superlative orangest or most orange)

oranger (comparative)
more orange (comparative)
orangest (superlative)
most orange (superlative)

ɔrenge

having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree

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Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy)

నారంగము, నారింజ


orange

It is this composition which reaches a colourist perfection in Le Bonheur with the complementarity of violet, purple and oranged gold

1986, Gilles Deleuze, Cinema: The movement-image, page 118:

Jeff winked his eyes sleepily open and looked out into the cool flush of early morning. The east was oranged over with daybreak.

1987, Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie, page 256:

I looked at him through my binoculars, his little lips oranged with Cheeto dust.

2009, Suzanne Crowley, The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous, page 117:

Cranes in the distance against the background of the slowly oranging sky

2007, Terézia Mora, Day in day out, page 296:

It will be followed by a disappearance of the cash I had hidden in a sealed envelope behind the oranging Modigliani print over the living room couch.

2008, Wanda Coleman, Jazz & twelve o'clock tales: new stories, page 14:

"What about his eyes?" / "Nothing. No oranging at all, from what I could see.

2010, Justin Cronin, The Passage, page 330:

en-verb

orange (third-person singular simple present oranges, present participle oranging, simple past and past participle oranged)

oranges (present singular third-person)
oranging (participle present)
oranged (participle past)
oranged (past)

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Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy)

నారంగము, నారింజ