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Speaking of weird names, we don't call oranges orange but we do call tomatoes "reds" (roșii).
And we call corn "pigeon" (porumb - from "palumbus" which is Latin for pigeon).
To finish, the Romanian word for "chainsaw" comes from Russian but neither Romanians know what it means in Russian nor do Russians suspect what it got to mean in Romanian. So "chainsaw" in Romanian - drujba - means "friendship" - Дружба - in Russian. Therefore when someone comes with the friendship at you, you better run, we'd have "The Texas friendship massacre" :)
Portus means port in Latin. It is the origin for the name of the city of Oporto, also.
Cala is the Latin name of the Celtic goddess of winter[1], also known as Cailleach Bhéara in Irish or Beira in Scotland. It is also the origin for the name of the region known as Galicia and the Gaia in Vila Nova de Gaia.
In Portuguese it was usually called Cidade do Porto (city of the port), which was shortened to be just Porto.
Nothing modern uses this name anymore, though. I always see "Porto", even in American English.
But, it's a recent enough fix that you can still find signs of it. For example, you can book a flight to "Porto (OPO)". Just like you can book a flight to "Beijing (PEK)".
Different versions of Galicia exist in most of Europe, from Cornwall to Galatia in Turkey (named after Thracian Gauls).
Southern Poland, some parts of Czechia and (I think) parts of Ukraine were also inhabited by Celts, hence the name of the once Austro-Hungarian province.
The real complexity is often more interesting and makes a bigger story.
Thanks for pointing this out. If you have any other decent sources, besides Wiktionary -- please share. (my email can be found in my profile)
Limoo Shirin is a rather common fruit here, I didn't expect that it is not easily found outside Iran. Although it doesn't taste that good and is usually mixed with orange juice or consumed for health benefits (it's considered good for preventing/treating cold).
The yellow sweet lemon we call it Sicilian lemon, another fruit name with origin from a country name
When you refer to lemons you're usually referring to the green lime (which is called "limão-taiti", meaning tahiti lemon).
When we want to refer to the yellow lemon (the common lemon outside South America) we usually say Sicilian lemon.
There's another very common type of lime which we refer to as "limão-capeta" (devil's lemon), it's a small, orange-color lime with a less sour taste than the green lime.
So, in short, we don't distinguish between lemon and lime, everything is a lemon.
It has more names than tangerines and makes a great caipirinha.
Wikipedia says it is a hybrid between an orange and a pomelo, developed in Barbados.
OK, to answer my own question: toranj == citron
https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/hayyim_query.py?qs=tor...
The wikipedia article is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)
That article says sweet oranges originated from China or Myanmar, and made their way west. Introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the people then called the "Moors".
Also, in Farsi tomatoes are called "foreign plums" and strawberries are called "foreign berries"
i.e. gojeh farangi, and toot farangi
The oranges that are commercially sold must be sweeter cultivars introduced later on, after English adoption, because of which we ended up calling these oranges.
Edit: Even Tamil is the English term for Thamizh.