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Mine is aceituna but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

оливка/олива, russian!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Olijf, in Dutch

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Oliven in Norwegian

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Oliva (Slovak)

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Azeitona in Portuguese

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The tree is Olivo; the olives themselves are Aceitunas, but the oil is Aceite De Oliva.

This is Spanish.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yesss!!! My dad would say “oliva” or “aceituna” but my mom, “aceituna”

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:

https://bulktranslator.com/

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

オリーブ

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

橄榄 "gan lan"

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Aceituna en español

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Maslina in Serbian

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Olijf (Dutch)

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Literal psy-op

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Its zeytin in turkish, what language are you studying?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

oh cool, I thought olive was the latin root, not zeytin, which is arabic afaict.

Actually that makes sense if the arabs imported olive trees to the hispanic peninsula

[-] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

(in bill wurtz's voice)

you're going to

🇧🇷 BRAZIL 🇧🇷

(I know, dead meme, but still funny)

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Let's do oranges next

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://lexiglobe.com/olive-in-different-languages/

It seems that there are a few common types of sounds

  • O-live: English, Basque, Dutch, Czech, etc. Potentially even Albanian and Japanese which kept the "Oh-Lee..." Portion
  • Zay-Toon: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Farsi, the language you are learning

Then some unique ones that still might fit into those bins:

  • Marathi is listed as "Jai-fa-la", which is still somewhat similar to the second type

  • someone commented Gan-lan, which seems to be different

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Zay-toon is also common in languages from the Iberic Peninsula: both Spanish and Portuguese got it (and a few other words) from Arabic.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Zaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

O live you

Mice mice mice elf elf elf

[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago

Have you tried asking Google Translate?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Măslină (romanian)

this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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