Pomeranze

German

Etymology

15th century, from Medieval Latin pomerancium, from pomum (“fruit”) + arancia (“orange”), the latter from Arabic نارَنْج‎ (nāranj), from Persian ‎ (nārang). Doublet of Orange. Cognate with Italian pomarancia (“sweet orange”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔməˈʁant͡sə/
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Rhymes: -antsə

Noun

Pomeranze f (genitive Pomeranze, plural Pomeranzen)

bitter orange
Synonyms: Bitterorange, Bitterapfelsine
(chiefly in compounds) a girl, by extension also any person, from the countryside or from a small town, who is unfamiliar with and easily impressed by city dwellers’ lifestyle

Declension

Declension of Pomeranze [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Pomeranze	die	Pomeranzen
genitive	einer	der	Pomeranze	der	Pomeranzen
dative	einer	der	Pomeranze	den	Pomeranzen
accusative	eine	die	Pomeranze	die	Pomeranzen

Derived terms

Dorfpomeranze, Kleinstadtpomeranze, Landpomeranze, Vorstadtpomeranze
pomeranzenhaft, pomeranzig

Descendants

→ Czech: pomeranč
→ Polish: pomarańcza
- →? Yiddish: פּאָמעראַנץ‎ (pomerants)
→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: поморанџа, поморанча

Latin: pomorandža, pomoranča