Orange: naranja v. anaranjado
As to the word orange, when to use naranja, and when to use anaranjado?
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As to the word orange, when to use naranja, and when to use anaranjado?
Naranja is the word for the fruit (ie a noun).
Anaranjado is orange-colored.
Frequently nouns are used with an implicit “de color”
Algo que es anaranjado es de color naranja
Same with rosa, rosado- rose, rosy.
When a noun is being used as a color, typically it is not gender and number matched to what it is describing, although sometimes it is.
See further here:
http://spanish.about.com/od/adjectives/a/colors.htm
Read the link, I only am quoting part here:
Note for intermediate students: When using colors derived from nouns, it isn't unusual for speakers to omit the word color (or color de or de color), so that a mustard-colored house would be una casa mostaza. When a noun is used in such a way, it is often still treated as a noun rather than an adjective, so it doesn't change form as adjectives typically do. (Some grammarians consider nouns used in this way to be invariable adjectives, that is, adjectives that don't change for number or gender). Thus "mustard-colored houses" would be casas mostaza rather than casas mostazas (although the latter is also used). The more often a noun is used as a color, the more likely it is to be treated as a regular adjective, that is, one that changes in number with the noun being described. Often, different speakers won't always agree. Thus, the coffee-colored shirts may be described as camisas café or camisas cafés, again depending on the speaker. More information on this phenomenon is available in a separate lesson on invariable adjectives.
