If Oranges are called oranges because they are "Orange" why aren't Lemons called yellows??

Question

Were Oranges named oranges after the colour, or was the colour named after the fruit? If so why aren't more fruits, named after their colours??

Answer 1

Have u ever heard of the colour lemon?
and the blue berry
and the peach

hehe

Answer 2

Orange the colour was named from the fruit. Naming colours after objects is probably much more common than you realise. You do in fact get "lemon yellow" or "lime green", or for that matter "apple green" or "cherry red". Orange the word comes from the sanskrit naranga, as the fruit seems to have come from India. However this is not originally a sanskrit word, and it's not clear where it came from.

Answer 3

Actually Oranges are green lol

Oranges look the most appealing when they are a deep, vibrant orange colour; but, on the tree, a mature orange is usually green-skinned. It will turn orange only if the cold temperature destroys the green chlorophyll pigments, allowing the yellow carotenoids underneath to show through. In warmer climates, oranges are always green; but, in the US, oranges are green only if they are picked in the fall before the first cold snap or if they are picked early in the spring when the tree is flooded with chlorophyll to nourish the coming new growth. Green oranges will also change colour if they are exposed to ethylene gas which, like the cold, breaks down the chlorophyll in the skin. Oranges are often dyed to attain the orange colour that consumers demand.

Answer 4

Who's to say that oranges are called that because of their color?
Maybe the color orange was named after the fruit.
Oranges have been around since probably the beginning of time, so you would have to ask yourself, how long has the color orange been around? Since orange isnt a primary color, it would seem that the orange wasnt named after the color, but rather the color named after the fruit, hence the reason why more fruits arent named the color that they are.
There are more colors named after fruits, than the other way around, so this theory of mine, to me, seems to be the most logical. Its just a coincidence that the orange has the same name as its color.

Answer 5

Well, there is lime green, apple green, lavender blue, raspberry, strawberry, and cherry red. Probably others, but they don't come readily to mind. Oranges were originally called narajas -- the word is Spanish, and the fruits came from Spain to England. The english, being unable to twist their tongues around almost any spanish word, garbled it into orange and simply called them the orange fruit, and eventually the word fruit was dropped and they were known as oranges.

Answer 6

The word "orange" comes from Sanskrit "narang". Oranges originated in southeast Asia, in either India, Pakistan, Vietnam or southern China. The fruit of Citrus sinensis is called sweet orange to distinguish it from Citrus aurantium, the bitter orange. In several languages it is known as Chinese apple (example: Dutch: Sinaasappel (China's apple)).

By the way.. oranges are not named after William of Orange.. he was named after a princedom called Orange.. :D

Answer 7

becuase lemons are lemon colour. the colour orange was named after the fruit, plums are plum colour i guess

Answer 8

If more fruits were named after their colours how would you distinguish between an orange, tangerine, satsuma and a mandarin? They would all be 'oranges'.

Answer 9

well the REAL question is, what came first? the colour or the fruit?

my guess is the colour has been named after the fruit, wutcha think??

Answer 10

I don't think oranges were named after the color orange i think they were named after William of Orange when they were discovered and the color thing sort of adapted itself.