laranxa

• laranja (reintegrationist spelling)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese laranja, from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Persian نارنگ (nârang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), itself of uncertain origin, possibly Dravidian. Compare Portuguese laranja, Spanish naranja, English orange.

• IPA^(key): /laˈɾanʃa/ [laˈɾanʲ.ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -anʃa
• Hyphenation: la‧ran‧xa

laranxa m or f (plural laranxas)

1. orange (colour)

laranxa f (plural laranxas)

1. orange (colour)
2. orange (fruit)

   Es a millor laranxa que saliu do laranxeiro.

   You are the best orange that came out of the orange grove.

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “laranxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “laranxa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “laranxa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN