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Read all the way through, didn’t know it would end up at a Tamil word as the origin of naranja
by ap3 8y ago
Read all the way through, didn’t know it would end up at a Tamil word as the origin of naranja
- iamshs 8y agoI am wondering why didn't the word percolate to Punjabi language where we call the colour as "santri" and the fruit is called "santra". Hindi has the same word for it, I think.
- msravi 8y agoOr to Kannada, where the fruit is called "kittaLe", despite also being classified a Dravidian language. Kannada and Telugu in general seem to have too many differences from Tamil and Malayalam to be lumped into a common bucket. The color has always been referred to as "kesari" in Kannada, and translates to saffron.