which was named first,orange the fruit or orange the colour?

Question

was the fruit named so because it is orange coloured or was the colour named because it is the same as the fruit?

Answer 1

The fruit was named first. Not all Oranges are Orange, some are yellow, in fact, most are yellow. Did you know that nothing rhymes with orange?

Answer 2

The fruit was named first! The orange was named in the 1300's and the name of the colour came from the fruit. The name of the colour was introduced in 1542. Hey, Gold would work too, for your question!

Answer 3

the colour is named after the orange fruit, presented to Europe by ability of using the Sanskrit observe n?ranja. in the previous this replaced into presented to the English-conversing international, the colour replaced into referred to (in previous English) as geoluhread, which interprets into present day English as yellow-pink.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

The fruit was probably named first, and it was associated with anything that had the same colour, etc etc.

Answer 6

orange the fruit i bet few things are naturally orange

Answer 7

I say the fruit

Answer 8

I'll go with the fruit

Answer 9

Probably the egg

Answer 10

extremely tough situation. do a search over google and yahoo. this might help!