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What is “olive” in your language?
(lemmy.world)
Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁
"azeitona" in Portuguese
"azeite" is olive oil
Oliva in Catalan
Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.
This is for the purpose of being able to eat as many olives as you like and it cannot be counted.
How many olives did you eat?
Hmm, I ate olive.
"Olive" (German).
Except our 'e' isn't silent but pronounced as the 'a' in 'air' and the 'o' sound like the one in 'or'.
Aceituna en español
That’s an Arabic loan word if I’ve ever seen one
Yep. Spanish has a number of Arabic loan words, given Spain was conquered by the moors for a bit.
In french argot, people still say zitoune (zitun), I believe they got it from the algerians. Otherwise it's just "olive"
Olive in french. Boring word I guess.
Depends on the meaning (🍑👈)
Sure depends on the meaning ! (🍫)
Olive ! 👍
Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.
橄榄（gǎn lǎn)
Oliv in Swedish.
Olijf (Dutch)
And Olijfje for Popeye's girlfriend..
And Olijfgroen for the colour.
Măslină in Romanian.
Olivka (oleevka) Russian.
oliivi (Finnish)
มะกอก (má-gòk)
based on vietnamese thats not olives ; some names in english are june plum or ambarella fruit
Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.
But we rarely use the latter, much like with amber.
Olive and ελιά
Zaytoun in arabic
Azeitona in portuguese, so yes, it probably came from arabic.
The tree is called oliveira, and the oil is called azeite.
Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your language?
Olivenöl. But I forrgot ze naime ov maine language
Alyvuogių aliejus.
I think I just summoned something
Yeah, the language is old (grammatically closest to PIE) so it isn't easily understandable for non-speakers.
Wiktionary's page for 'olive' has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.
ôliu in vietnamese
The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.
The color or the fruit?
OP:
Yes
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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