tangerine

See also: Tangerine

English

Etymology

From French Tanger +‎ -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæn.d͡ʒəˌɹiːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

tangerine (plural tangerines)

1. A slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.
2. A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
   • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 343:

     The sun was beginning to set, and under the tangerine sky, Reese tugged his undershirt over his head.

   tangerine:  

3. A tree that produces tangerines.

   Synonym: Citrus tangerina

   Hypernym: mandarin orange

Derived terms

• atomic tangerine
• honey tangerine
• tangelo

Translations

fruit

• Afrikaans: nartjie (af), mandaryn (af)
• Arabic: مَنْدَرِين (mandarīn), يُوسُفِيّ (yūsufiyy), أَفَنْدِيّ (ʔafandiyy)

  Moroccan Arabic: مندرين m (mandarīn) (collective), مندرينة f (mandarīna) (singulative)

  South Levantine Arabic: مندلينا f (mandalīna)

• Basque: mandarina (eu)
• Belarusian: мандары́н m (mandarýn)
• Bulgarian: мандари́на (bg) f (mandarína)
• Catalan: mandarina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橘子 (zh) (júzi), 甌柑 / 瓯柑 (zh) (ōugān)

• Cornish: tanjerin m
• Danish: mandarin (da) c
• Dutch: mandarijn (nl) n
• Estonian: tangeriin, mandariin
• Faroese: mandarin f
• Finnish: tangeriini (fi)
• French: tangerine (fr) f, mandarine (fr) f
• German: Mandarine (de) f
• Greek: μανταρίνι (el) n (mantaríni)
• Hungarian: mandarin (hu)
• Icelandic: tangerína (is) f
• Italian: mandarino (it) m
• Japanese: タンジェリン (tanjerin), みかん (ja) (mikan), ミカン (ja) (mikan), 蜜柑 (ja) (みかん, mikan)
• Kazakh: мандарин (mandarin)
• Korean: 귤 (ko) (gyul)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لالەنگی (ckb) (lalengî)

  Northern Kurdish: lalengî (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: мандарин (ky) (mandarin)
• Latin: citrus tangerina f
• Latvian: mandarīns m
• Low German: Mandarien f
• Macedonian: мандарина (mk) f (mandarina)
• Maltese: mandolina f
• Maori: manarini
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tangerin m

• Persian: نارنگی (fa) (nârengi)
• Polish: mandarynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tangerina (pt) f, mexerica (pt) f, bergamota (pt) f
• Romanian: tangerină (ro) f
• Russian: мандари́н (ru) m (mandarín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тангерина f, мандарина f

  Roman: tangerina (sh) f, mandarina (sh) f

• Spanish: mandarina (es) f
• Swahili: chenza (sw)
• Swedish: tangerin (sv) c
• Tagalog: ponkan
• Ukrainian: мандари́н m (mandarýn)
• Urdu: طنجہ کا باشندہ (tunja ka bashinda)
• Vietnamese: quả quýt (vi) (果橘)
• Welsh: tanjerîn m or f

colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橘紅色 / 橘红色 (júhóngsè)

• Finnish: tangeriinin oranssi
• French: mandarine (fr)
• Persian: نارنجی (fa) (nârenji)
• Romanian: portocaliu (ro)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: naranja (es) m
• Welsh: tanjerîn, melyngoch

tree

• Afrikaans: nartjieboom
• Basque: mandarinondo (eu)
• Bulgarian: мандари́на (bg) f (mandarína)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橘子 (zh) (júzi), 甌柑 / 瓯柑 (zh) (ōugān)

• Estonian: tangeriinipuu, mandariinipuu
• Finnish: tangeriinipuu
• French: tangerinier f, mandarinier (fr) m
• Italian: mandarino (it) m
• Latvian: mandarīns m
• Maltese: mandolina f
• Persian: نارنگی (fa) (nârengi)
• Polish: mandarynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tangerineira (pt) f
• Russian: мандари́н (ru) m (mandarín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тангерина f, мандарина f

  Roman: tangerina (sh) f, mandarina (sh) f

• Swahili: mchenza
• Swedish: tangerinträd n
• Welsh: tanjerîn m or f

Adjective

tangerine

1. Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.

Translations

colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橘紅色的 / 橘红色的 (júhóngsè de)

• Finnish: tangeriinin oranssi, tangeriinin värinen (fi)
• French: mandarine (fr)
• Romanian: portocaliu (ro)
• Russian: мандари́новый (ru) (mandarínovyj)
• Spanish: anaranjado (es)
• Swedish: orangeröd

See also

• clementine
• mandarine
• minneola
• nartjie
• ortanique
• satsuma
• ugli/ugli fruit
• Van der Hum
• Appendix:Colors

References

• tangerine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Argentine, antigreen, argentine, intragene