"azeitona" in Portuguese
"azeite" is olive oil
"azeitona" in Portuguese
"azeite" is olive oil
Măslină in Romanian.
Olivka (oleevka) Russian.
oliivi (Finnish)
Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁
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'.
Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.
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 ! 👍
Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your 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.
Olijf (Dutch)
And Olijfje for Popeye's girlfriend..
And Olijfgroen for the colour.
橄榄(gǎn lǎn)
Wiktionary's page for 'olive' has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.
ôliu in vietnamese
Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.
But we rarely use the latter, much like with amber.
Oliv in Swedish.
The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.
มะกอก (má-gòk)
based on vietnamese thats not olives ; some names in english are june plum or ambarella fruit
Zaytoun in arabic
Azeitona in portuguese, so yes, it probably came from arabic.
The tree is called oliveira, and the oil is called azeite.
Olive and ελιά
The color or the fruit?
OP:
Yes
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected].
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected] or [email protected]
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu