Was the word “orange” originally meant to describe a color or the fruit?

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A few days ago

Kira

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I dunno. Maybe the fruit? and then they couldn’t come up with a name for the color so they used the name of the fruit??

wouldn’t it be funny if yellow was called banana??

A few days ago

bruhaha

Actually, probably the TREE.

The word has a long history or borrowing from one language to another… back through Arabic, to Persian, and before that it seems to Sanskrit. And throughout it was used for the fruit or the tree. It’s first known use for a color came in 1542.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=orange

A few days ago

Lea A

I don’t know, but I thought it was interesting in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” when she was telling her in-laws-to-be that her last name meant ‘orange’, and went on to say, “The fruit…not the color.”

Okay, Wikipedia, if you care to trust it, says the fruit came first 🙂

A few days ago

guagna

Hmm… I’m not sure, but probably the color, and the fruit was just named such because it *was* that color…

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A few days ago

Experto Credo

I felt it was the fruit, not the color

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Was the word “orange” originally meant to describe a color or the fruit?

Was the word “orange” originally meant to describe a color or the fruit?

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