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Mine is oliva but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Măslină (romanian)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Azeitona in Portuguese

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

The tree is Olivo; the olives themselves are Aceitunas, but the oil is Aceite De Oliva.

This is Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Maslina in Serbian

[–] DrBob 8 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:

https://bulktranslator.com/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Olijf (Dutch)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

橄榄 "gan lan"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Aceituna en espaΓ±ol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BCsven 3 points 17 hours ago

Let's do oranges next

[–] otter 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

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:

  • Marathi is listed as "Jai-fa-la", which is still somewhat similar to the second type

  • someone commented Gan-lan, which seems to be different

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Zay-toon is also common in languages from the Iberic Peninsula: both Spanish and Portuguese got it (and a few other words) from Arabic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Zaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Have you tried asking Google Translate?

[–] otter 5 points 14 hours ago

I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

O live you

Mice mice mice elf elf elf