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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oliva in Catalan

[–] callyral@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

"azeitona" in Portuguese

"azeite" is olive oil

[–] iomihai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Măslină in Romanian.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Olivka (oleevka) Russian.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.

[–] MysticEdge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

This is for the purpose of being able to eat as many olives as you like and it cannot be counted.

How many olives did you eat?

Hmm, I ate olive.

[–] stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 days ago

Except our 'e' isn't silent but pronounced as the 'a' in 'air' and the 'o' sound like the one in 'or'.

[–] sorrowl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

oliivi (Finnish)

[–] paequ2 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ytg@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That’s an Arabic loan word if I’ve ever seen one

[–] paequ2 2 points 1 day ago

Yep. Spanish has a number of Arabic loan words, given Spain was conquered by the moors for a bit.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

In french argot, people still say zitoune (zitun), I believe they got it from the algerians. Otherwise it's just "olive"

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Olive in french. Boring word I guess.

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends on the meaning (🍑👈)

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Sure depends on the meaning ! (🍫)

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Olive ! 👍

[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 1 day ago

And Olijfje for Popeye's girlfriend..

And Olijfgroen for the colour.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

橄榄(gǎn lǎn)

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Oliv in Swedish.

[–] CrazyHorse@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

มะกอก (má-gòk)

[–] CrazyHorse@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] shikimazu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

based on vietnamese thats not olives ; some names in english are june plum or ambarella fruit

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Azeitona in portuguese, so yes, it probably came from arabic.

The tree is called oliveira, and the oil is called azeite.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your language?

[–] Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago

Olivenöl. But I forrgot ze naime ov maine language

[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think I just summoned something

[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the language is old (grammatically closest to PIE) so it isn't easily understandable for non-speakers.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.

But we rarely use the latter, much like with amber.

[–] TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Olive and ελιά

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Wiktionary's page for 'olive' has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.

Link: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/olive#Translations

[–] shikimazu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

ôliu in vietnamese

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.

[–] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)