Mine is aceituna but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)
оливка/олива, russian!
Olijf, in Dutch
Olive.
Aceituna en español
I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:
橄榄 “gan lan”
Azeitona in Portuguese
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”
Olijf (Dutch)
Olive
Măslină (romanian)
Maslina in Serbian
The color or the fruit?
Let’s do oranges next
Fruit
Oliven in Norwegian
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.
