English Words from Arabic
orange
النّارَنْج
nāranj
European languages lost the first n: 'a norange' became 'an orange'. In Arabic today nāranj is the bitter orange.
- Meaning in Arabic
- bitter orange
- Before Arabic
- Persian, from Sanskrit
- Arabic today says
- البُرْتُقال
The path between languagesnāranj → orange
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