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Originally Posted by idol_wild  Orange.
What the hell came first - the colour, or the fruit? |
The fruit.
I believe the colour was referred to as a shade of red before the fruit was introduced to er, wherever the fuck it was introduced to.
haud on.....
What was named first? The colour orange or the fruit? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers Quote:
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The colour orange derives originally from the Sanskrit word narangah for the fruit, whose name moved westwards through Persian narang and Arabic naranj to Spanish (the Arabs imported it into Europe via Moorish Spain in medieval times); in French it became corrupted to orange, in part by the process called metanalysis but also through being strongly influenced by the name of the town of Orange in south-eastern France which used to be a centre of the orange trade.
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