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== Etymology ==
The name of the town and municipality is of [[Serbian language|Serbian]] origin and is derived from the [[Proto-Slavic language|Proto-Slavic]] word ''orěhъ'', meaning nux (English: [[Nut (fruit)|nut]]).<ref name="skok">{{Citation| last=Skok| first=Petar| author-link=Petar Skok| year=1988| orig-year=1971| title=Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika| volume=2| publisher=Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti| place=Zagreb| language=sh| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRALAQAAMAAJ&q=oraovac| quote='''orah''', pl. ''orasi'' ... praslav. ''orěhъ'' "nux". Pridjev na ''-ov'' ''orahov'', poimeničen u topnimiji u sr. r. ''Orahovo'', ... ''Orahov Do'' (Hercegovina), ... ''Oriovac'', gen. ''-vca'' (toponim u Slavoniji) = ''Oravac'', gen. ''-avca'' = ''Oraovac'' (1770, Kosmet) = ''Raovec'' u arbanaskom izgovoru.<br/> [Translation: '''orah''', plural ''orasi'' ... from the [[Proto-Slavic]] ''orěhъ'' "[[:wiktionary:nux|nux]]". The adjective on  ''-ov'', ''orahov'', is [[nominalisation|nominalised]] in [[toponymy]] into ''Orahovo'', ... ''Orahov Do'' ([[Herzegovina]]), ... ''Oriovac'' ([[Slavonia]]) = ''Oravac'' = ''Oraovac'' (1770, Kosovo and Metohija) = ''Raovec'' in Albanian pronunciation. (N.B. ''Orahovac'' and ''Rahovec'' are shown here in ''h''-less variants ''Oraovac'' and ''Raovec'')]| isbn=86-407-0064-8| page=562| mode=cs1}}</ref> The name ''Rahovec'' comes from an Albanised pronunciation of ''Orahovac''.