Etymology
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From French Tanger + -ine , after Tangier , Morocco.
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ˈtæn.d͡ʒəˌɹiːn/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Rhymes: -iːn
tangerine (plural tangerines )
An 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 .
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:
A tree that produces tangerines.
Synonym: Citrus tangerina
Hypernym: mandarin orange Derived terms
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Translations
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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 f ( mandarina )
Maltese: mandolina f
Maori: manarini
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tangerin m
Persian: نارنگی (fa) ( nârengi )
Polish: mandarynka (pl) f
Portuguese: tangerina (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
Adjective
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tangerine
Of a deep yellowish-orange colour. Translations
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