Of those languages which call oranges oranges, a guest consonant often makes a cameo appearance at the start: N in Spanish (naranja), L in Portuguese (laranja) and T in Catalan (taronja), while Italian (arancia) does without.
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The world's languages can be grouped into those which call oranges oranges, those which call oranges apples and those which call oranges Portugals.
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It's ironic that they're called "portugals" in Turkey, because in Portugal a turkey is called a peru, though at least in Peru a turkey is called a turkey. Elsewhere (e.g. Poland, France), a turkey is called an Indian. Basically nobody knows where the bird came from.
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Pineapple is piña in Spanish, so we are in the resistance side on this as well
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That's the "apples" category.
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Interesting. But yes, the languages that I can think of can somehow be found to using words kind of similar to either of the three with enough phantasy and flexibility. There some words that have two common variants: Lemon / Citron, Tomato / Pomidor
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My mind was like "but of course we call them oranges" . However, in Romanian the word for the whole color orange is also derived from portugal ("portocaliu"). So we're both in the 1st and 3rd category
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Well, I meant "oranges are called oranges" with an English bias, i.e. having the same root as the English word for "orange". But it would be interesting to see which countries use the same word for the color and the fruit.
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