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