Mine is aceituna but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)
Olive.
I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:
Aceituna en español
Olijf (Dutch)
橄榄 “gan lan”
The tree is Olivo; the olives themselves are Aceitunas, but the oil is Aceite De Oliva.
This is Spanish.
Yesss!!! My dad would say “oliva” or “aceituna” but my mom, “aceituna”
Have you tried asking Google Translate?
I don’t think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations
Azeitona in Portuguese
Maslina in Serbian
Măslină (romanian)
O live you
Mice mice mice elf elf elf
Olijf, in Dutch
Olíva
https://lexiglobe.com/olive-in-different-languages/
It seems that there are a few common types of sounds
- O-live: English, Basque, Dutch, Czech, etc. Potentially even Albanian and Japanese which kept the “Oh-Lee…” Portion
- Zay-Toon: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Farsi, the language you are learning
Then some unique ones that still might fit into those bins:
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Marathi is listed as “Jai-fa-la”, which is still somewhat similar to the second type
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someone commented Gan-lan, which seems to be different
Zaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.
Zay-toon is also common in languages from the Iberic Peninsula: both Spanish and Portuguese got it (and a few other words) from Arabic.
