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[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Zaytoun in arabic

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] shikimazu@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

ôliu in vietnamese

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago

Olijf (Dutch)

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 5 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

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.

[–] CrazyHorse@lemmy.cafe 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

มะกอก (má-gòk)

[–] CrazyHorse@lemmy.cafe 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] shikimazu@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago

Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago

Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Olive in french. Boring word I guess.

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 1 points 4 hours ago

Depends on the meaning (🍑👈)

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Olive ! 👍

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

橄榄(gǎn lǎn)

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 7 points 12 hours ago

Aceituna en español

[–] stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 hours ago

"Olive" (German).

[–] TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Olive and ελιά

[–] flying_gel@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Oliv in Swedish.

[–] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)
[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 11 hours ago