оливка/олива, russian!
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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Olijf, in Dutch
Oliven in Norwegian
Olíva
Oliv
Oliva (Slovak)
Măslină (romanian)
Azeitona in Portuguese
Olive.
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”
橄榄 "gan lan"
Aceituna en español
I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:
Olijf (Dutch)
Maslina in Serbian
Olive
Literal psy-op
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