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Tangerine
//ˈtæn.d͡ʒəˌɹiːn//
Synonyms for "tangerine" (13 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
111 translations across 48 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- mandaryn noun (fruit)
- nartjie noun (fruit)
- nartjieboom noun (tree)
Arabic
4 entries- أَفَنْدِيّ noun (fruit)
- مندرين noun (fruit)
- مندرينة noun (fruit)
- مندلينا noun (fruit)
Basque
2 entries- mandarina noun (fruit)
- mandarinondo noun (tree)
Belarusian
1 entries- мандары́н noun (fruit)
Bulgarian
2 entries- мандари́на noun (fruit)
- мандари́на noun (tree)
Catalan
1 entries- mandarina noun (fruit)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- لالەنگی noun (fruit)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 橘紅色的 /橘红色的 adj (colour)
- 橘子 noun (fruit)
- 橘子 noun (tree)
- 橘紅色 /橘红色 noun (colour)
Cornish
1 entries- tanjerin noun (fruit)
Danish
1 entries- mandarin noun (fruit)
Dutch
1 entries- mandarijn noun (fruit)
Estonian
4 entries- mandariin noun (fruit)
- mandariinipuu noun (tree)
- tangeriin noun (fruit)
- tangeriinipuu noun (tree)
Faroese
1 entries- mandarin noun (fruit)
Finnish
4 entries- tangeriinin oranssi adj (colour)
- tangeriinin värinen adj (colour)
- tangeriini noun (fruit)
- tangeriinin oranssi noun (colour)
French
4 entries- mandarine adj (colour)
- tangérois adj (pertaining to Tangier)
- tangéroise adj (pertaining to Tangier)
- Tangérois noun (inhabitant of Tangier)
Galician
3 entries- tanxerina adj (pertaining to Tangier)
- tanxerino adj (pertaining to Tangier)
- tanxerino noun (inhabitant of Tangier)
German
1 entries- Mandarine noun (fruit)
Greek
1 entries- μανταρίνι noun (fruit)
Gujarati
1 entries- નારંગી noun (fruit)
Hungarian
1 entries- mandarin noun (fruit)
Icelandic
1 entries- tangerína noun (fruit)
Italian
2 entries- mandarino noun (fruit)
- mandarino noun (tree)
Japanese
1 entries- タンジェリン noun (fruit)
Kazakh
1 entries- мандарин noun (fruit)
Korean
1 entries- 귤 noun (fruit)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- мандарин noun (fruit)
Latin
1 entries- citrus tangerina noun (fruit)
Latvian
2 entries- mandarīns noun (fruit)
- mandarīns noun (tree)
Low German
1 entries- Mandarien noun (fruit)
Macedonian
1 entries- мандарина noun (fruit)
Maltese
2 entries- mandolina noun (fruit)
- mandolina noun (tree)
Māori
1 entries- manarini noun (fruit)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- lalengî noun (fruit)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tangerin noun (fruit)
Persian
3 entries- نارنجی noun (colour)
- نارنگی noun (fruit)
- نارنگی noun (tree)
Polish
2 entries- mandarynka noun (fruit)
- mandarynka noun (tree)
Portuguese
4 entries- bergamota noun (fruit)
- mexerica noun (fruit)
- tangerina noun (fruit)
- tangerineira noun (tree)
Romanian
3 entries- portocaliu adj (colour)
- portocaliu noun (colour)
- tangerină noun (fruit)
Russian
3 entries- мандари́новый adj (colour)
- мандари́н noun (fruit)
- мандари́н noun (tree)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- mandarina noun (fruit)
- mandarina noun (tree)
- tangerina noun (fruit)
- tangerina noun (tree)
Spanish
4 entries- anaranjado adj (colour)
- mandarina noun (fruit)
- naranja noun (colour)
- naranja tangerina noun (fruit)
Swahili
2 entries- chenza noun (fruit)
- mchenza noun (tree)
Swedish
3 entries- orangeröd adj (colour)
- tangerin noun (fruit)
- tangerinträd noun (tree)
Tagalog
1 entries- ponkan noun (fruit)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мандари́н noun (fruit)
Urdu
1 entries- طنجہ کا باشندہ noun (fruit)
Vietnamese
1 entries- quả quýt noun (fruit)
Welsh
4 entries- melyngoch noun (colour)
- tanjerîn noun (fruit)
- tanjerîn noun (colour)
- tanjerîn noun (tree)
Sample sentences
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"Dad, just imagine, I ate a whole tangerine." "You ate a whole tangerine, my little one? How did you dare to do that?" "It wasn't me. It was Joe."
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Yanni found a tangerine tree in the middle of the backyard.
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"Have you ever had a tangerine?"
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