Orasch

Limburgish

Alternative forms

orazj, orange (Veldeke spelling)
Orangel (Eupen)

Etymology

Borrowed from French orange, from Old French pume orenge, influenced by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Classical Persian (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), from Dravidian.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [oˈʁãːʃ]

Noun

Orasch f (plural Orasche̩) (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling)

orange (fruit)
Synonym: Ape̩lsiin
(some dialects, specifically) bitter orange (fruit)

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