laranja

From Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Persian نارنگ (nârang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), itself of uncertain origin, possibly Dravidian.

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /laɾanɟa/ [la.ɾãɲ.ɟa]

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• Rhymes: -anɟa, -a

• Hyphenation: la‧ran‧ja

laranja inan

1. orange (fruit)
2. orange (color)

laranja (comparative laranjago, superlative laranjen, excessive laranjegi)

1. having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree.

• “laranja”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “laranja”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

laranja f (plural laranjas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of laranxa

• “laranja” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Spanish naranja.

• IPA^(key): /laˈɺanha/
• Rhymes: -anha
• Syllabification: la‧ran‧ja

laranja (alienable)

1. orange

• Álvarez, José, Bravo, María (2008) “laranja”, in Diccionario básico de la lengua añú [Basic dictionary of the Añú language]‎^[1], Maracaibo, Venezuela: University of Zulia, →ISBN, page 87.

From Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Persian نارنگ (nârang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), itself of uncertain origin, possibly Dravidian. Compare Spanish naranja.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ʒɐ
• Hyphenation: la‧ran‧ja

laranja (invariable)

1. orange (having orange as its color)

laranja f (plural laranjas)

1. orange (fruit)
   • 1563, João de Barros, chapter II, in Terceira decada da Aſia, volume 5, Lisbon, page 124:

     E querẽdo Eitor Anrriquez de Santarem como hómem de animo poer a lança na tȩſta de hum Elefaute, de dous que ali andauam pelejando: deſuiou o Elefante a lãça com a tromba, & apanhou ò com ella per antre as pȩrnas & lançou o pera o ár como ſe fora hũa laranja, & quis lhe Deos bem que jndo armado cayo em lugar & de maneira que o nã matou.

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   • 1693, Antonio Pereyra Rego, “Das Sobre-mãos, ou Formas, & Cravos” (chapter 63), in Inſtruçam da Cavallaria de Brida, Coimbra: Joam Antunes, page 304:

     As ſobre-mãos ſe manifeſtaõ de principio, como hũa fava; porèm depois vem a creçer, & a fazerſe algũas vezes, como meya laranja.

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   • 1707, Joam Curvo Semmedo, “Obſervaçam XLIII”, in Obſervações Medicas Doutrinaes, Lisbon: Antonio Pedrozo Galram, page 271:

     […] vim em conhecimento que o veneno, que o eſcravo tinha tomado, era ſolimaõ, & por iſſo lhe dei, primeiro que tudo, um vomitorio de dez onças de agua de flor de laranja, & logo quatro onças de oleo da ſemente dos nabos, & huma oitava de cristal bem preparado, miſturado tudo com outra oitava do meu Bezoartico Cordeal […]

     I came to know that the poison, that the slave had drunk, was sulema and therefore I gave him, first of all, a vomitory of ten ounces of orange flowers, and four ounces of turnip seed oil right after, and one oitava of well-prepared crystal, mixing everything with another oitava of my Bezoartico Cordeal.

2. orange (color)

   Synonym: cor de laranja

laranja m or f by sense (plural laranjas)

1. (colloquial, Brazil) a front man (one who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit, especially in political schemes), a straw man

• Kadiwéu: lalaanja