Oranges

[Spacewoman Spiff]

Is the fruit named after the colour, or the colour named after the fruit?

[Tacks]

I think you meant "color".

[Tikker]

colour named after the fruit

[leah]

colour named after the fruit

i disagree.

fruit is named after the colo(u)r.

[Xaiveir]

Wich one came first....the fruit or the color?

My guess is the fruit.

[Phlegm]

From answer.com:

Contrary to what most of us think, this fruit was not named for its color. Instead, the word orange comes from a transliteration of the Sanskrit naranga ... which comes from the Tamil naru… which means fragrant.

WORD HISTORY Oranges imported to China from the United States reflect a journey come full circle, for the orange had worked its way westward for centuries, originating in China, then being introduced to India, and traveling on to the Middle East, into Europe, and finally to the New World. The history of the word orange keeps step with this journey only part of the way. The word is possibly ultimately from Dravidian, a family of languages spoken in southern India and northern Sri Lanka. The Dravidian word or words were adopted into the Indo-European language Sanskrit with the form nāra[ndot]gaḥ. As the fruit passed westward, so did the word, as evidenced by Persian nārang and Arabic nāranj. Arabs brought the first oranges to Spain, and the fruit rapidly spread throughout Europe. The important word for the development of our term is Old Italian melarancio, derived from mela, “fruit,” and arancio, “orange tree,” from Arabic nāranj. Old Italian melarancio was translated into Old French as pume orenge, the o replacing the a because of the influence of the name of the town of Orange, from which oranges reached the northern part of France. The final stage of the odyssey of the word was its borrowing into English from the Old French form orenge. Our word is first recorded in Middle English in a text probably composed around 1380, a time preceding the arrival of the orange in the New World.

[Martrae]

So the chicken came first?

[labbats]

I don't knouw.

[Tikker]

So the chicken came first?

egg came before chicken, and fruit before colour

[Harrison]

I don't knouw.

I laughed aloud...

I am also drugged to high hell...

[mappatazee]

I don't knouw.

I laughed aloud...

I am also drugged to high hell...

What's new?

[brinstar]

who gives a shit

[Captain Insano]

Do you think they invented steak so that they would have a reason for bbq sauce?

[Vincenti]

no! Any sauce on a good piece of meat is a crime, often punishable by death

[Vincenti]

On a side note the place I work (and now live) produces the BEST freaking oranges on the planet. Called a Louisiana Naval, it about the size of a grapefruit, as sweet as a satsuma, and juicier than anything you could possibly imagine. The only downside to these oranges is that the skin is very thick and tough (although quite tasty) making it very difficult to peel.....Katrina wiped out the entire crop this year and the flooding will possibly make the next few years very small crops until all the salt and chemicals are out of the soil and the trees can grow back