Original question by @wendyz@lemmy.ml
oliivi (Finnish)
Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁
Olijf (Dutch)
Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it’s an uncountable noun.
Zaytoun in arabic
Azeitona in portuguese, so yes, it probably came from arabic.
The tree is called oliveira, and the oil is called azeite.
Wiktionary’s page for ‘olive’ has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.
Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.
ôliu in vietnamese
Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your language?
“Olive” (German).
Except our ‘e’ isn’t silent but pronounced as the ‘a’ in ‘air’ and the ‘o’ sound like the one in ‘or’.
Olive in french. Boring word I guess.
Depends on the meaning (🍑👈)
Olive ! 👍
橄榄（gǎn lǎn)
The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.
Aceituna en español
Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.
But we rarely use the latter, much like with amber.
