why do oranges have the color orange?

Answer 1

BECAUSE APPLES TOOK THE RED AND BANANAS TOOK THE YELLOW THEN CAME ALONG GRAPES WITH THE GREEN AND PURPLE SO THE ROUND THING SAID WHAT THE HELL I'LL BE ORANGE AND THERE IT WAS "ORANGES"

Answer 2

Are oranges called oranges because they're orange, or is orange called orange because oranges are orange?

The color orange is called orange because oranges are orange.

The word orange first entered our English language in the fourteenth century, in reference to the globose citrus fruit of the orange tree (orange referring to the tree itself, as in "groves of oranges," took another 250 or so years to appear).

The earlier history of the word is a bit of a mess, but roughly, English borrowed it from Old French orenge, which borrowed it from Arabic náranj, which borrowed it from Persian nárang, which borrowed it from Sanskrit náranga 'orange tree' (all foregoing acute accents should really be macrons, and the second n in the Sanskrit word should have a dot over it).

If you're wondering what happened to the initial n-, the probable answer is that it was lost by metanalysis, which, we recall, is a change in the division between words, which in English gives rise to an adder, originally a nadder. The original French was probably une narenge, with the definite article absorbing the initial n- of the noun. Spanish, by contrast, also borrowed the Arabic word, but in Spanish it ended up as naranja, since the word didn't undergo metanalysis. The change in French from arange to orenge is thought to be due to the influence of French or 'gold', alluding to the color.

Answer 3

Its called an orange, so it had to be orange.

Answer 4

Everything in the universe is the color it is because it is everything BUT the color it is.

What I mean is.......the sky is blue because it absorbs all the colors of the visible light spectrum except blue. It reflects the color blue. White things reflect back the entire range and black things absorb all the visible bands.

Chef Mark

Answer 5

that is why they are called oranges..

Answer 6

'coz they dont like ne other colour to wear.

Answer 7

it makes them look yummy