Original question by @wendyz@lemmy.ml
Oliva in Catalan
“azeitona” in Portuguese
“azeite” is olive oil
oliivi (Finnish)
The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.
Olive and ελιά
The color or the fruit?
Yes
OP:
橄榄（gǎn lǎn)
Olive in french. Boring word I guess.
Depends on the meaning (🍑👈)
Olive ! 👍
Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁
Aceituna en español
That’s an Arabic loan word if I’ve ever seen one
Yep. Spanish has a number of Arabic loan words, given Spain was conquered by the moors for a bit.
Oliv in Swedish.
“Olive” (German).
Except our ‘e’ isn’t silent but pronounced as the ‘a’ in ‘air’ and the ‘o’ sound like the one in ‘or’.
Olijf (Dutch)
And Olijfje for Popeye’s girlfriend…
And Olijfgroen for the colour.
มะกอก (má-gòk)
based on vietnamese thats not olives ; some names in english are june plum or ambarella fruit
Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it’s an uncountable noun.
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.
