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The name of the fruit came first. Portuguese traders brought oranges to Europe, and until then the English language hadn't a name for the colour orange. As seen in this old text describing a fox: "The Colour was betwixt yellow and reed" (betwixt former word for between). Another way of describing the colour in old English was "Geoluhread" (yellow-red) The Persian word for orange is "narang", originates from the Sanskrit "naranga" The first record of an Orange in Europe is in the 14th century, and was referred as "orenge" in Old French. Before being introduced to Europe, we can see ancient Sanskrit texts mentioning the fruit "naranja" dating as far back as 2200BC. (edited)

4y

Was the country named turkey after the animal or was the animal named after the country? Similar situation with whales

4y

the color is named after the fruit

4y

That's quite a question! 😂

3y

The Orang Otang was first. Then he invented the colour orange and he named if after himself, cause he was an orange gorilla. Then someone stepped in an orange, so he called it orange

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