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What is “olive” in your language?
(lemmy.ml)
Olive.
I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:
Aceituna en español
橄榄 "gan lan"
The tree is Olivo; the olives themselves are Aceitunas, but the oil is Aceite De Oliva.
This is Spanish.
Yesss!!! My dad would say “oliva” or “aceituna” but my mom, “aceituna”
Azeitona in Portuguese
Olijf (Dutch)
Olive
Maslina in Serbian
The color or the fruit?
Let's do oranges next
Fruit
Măslină (romanian)
Its zeytin in turkish, what language are you studying?
Portuguese :)
(in bill wurtz's voice)
you're going to
🇧🇷 BRAZIL 🇧🇷
(I know, dead meme, but still funny)
oh cool, I thought olive was the latin root, not zeytin, which is arabic afaict.
Actually that makes sense if the arabs imported olive trees to the hispanic peninsula
оливка/олива, russian!
O live you
Mice mice mice elf elf elf
https://lexiglobe.com/olive-in-different-languages/
It seems that there are a few common types of sounds
- O-live: English, Basque, Dutch, Czech, etc. Potentially even Albanian and Japanese which kept the "Oh-Lee..." Portion
- Zay-Toon: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Farsi, the language you are learning
Then some unique ones that still might fit into those bins:
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Marathi is listed as "Jai-fa-la", which is still somewhat similar to the second type
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someone commented Gan-lan, which seems to be different
Zay-toon is also common in languages from the Iberic Peninsula: both Spanish and Portuguese got it (and a few other words) from Arabic.
Zaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.
Literal psy-op
Oliven
オリーブ
Olíva
Oliven in Norwegian
Oliv
Oliva (Slovak)
Olijf, in Dutch
Have you tried asking Google Translate?
I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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