Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your language?
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Olijf (Dutch)
ôliu in vietnamese
Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.
Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.
Zaytoun in arabic
Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁
The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.
Wiktionary's page for 'olive' has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.
มะกอก (má-gòk)
based on vietnamese thats not olives ; some names in english are june plum or ambarella fruit
Olive in french. Boring word I guess.
Depends on the meaning (🍑👈)
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'.
橄榄（gǎn lǎn)
Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.
Aceituna en español
Olive and ελιά
Oliv in Swedish.
The color or the fruit?
OP:
Yes