оливка/олива, russian!
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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Olive.
Oliven in Norwegian
Olijf, in Dutch
Olíva
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”
I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:
橄榄 "gan lan"
Aceituna en español
Olijf (Dutch)
Măslină (romanian)
Olive
Oliv
Oliva (Slovak)
Maslina in Serbian
The color or the fruit?
Fruit
Let's do oranges next
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.
O live you
Mice mice mice elf elf elf
Have you tried asking Google Translate?
I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations