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Original question by @wendyz@lemmy.ml

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[–] sorrowl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

oliivi (Finnish)

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 22 points 22 hours ago

Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁

[–] rumimevlevi 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Azeitona in portuguese, so yes, it probably came from arabic.

The tree is called oliveira, and the oil is called azeite.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 15 hours ago

Olijf (Dutch)

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your language?

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 14 hours ago

Wiktionary's page for 'olive' has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.

Link: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/olive#Translations

[–] shikimazu@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

ôliu in vietnamese

[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago

Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago

The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.

[–] stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 16 hours ago

Except our 'e' isn't silent but pronounced as the 'a' in 'air' and the 'o' sound like the one in 'or'.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Olive in french. Boring word I guess.

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 1 points 14 hours ago

Depends on the meaning (🍑👈)

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Olive ! 👍

[–] CrazyHorse@lemmy.cafe 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

มะกอก (má-gòk)

[–] CrazyHorse@lemmy.cafe 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] shikimazu@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

based on vietnamese thats not olives ; some names in english are june plum or ambarella fruit

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago

橄榄(gǎn lǎn)

[–] rikudou 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

But we rarely use the latter, much like with amber.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 7 points 22 hours ago

Aceituna en español

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Oliv in Swedish.

[–] TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Olive and ελιά

[–] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)
[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 21 hours ago