An orange is a round, juicy citrus fruit with a thick, bright orange skin. The word also names the color of the fruit’s peel.
From Old French “orenge,” from Arabic “nāranj,” from Persian “nārang,” from Sanskrit “nāraṅga” for the tree and fruit. Interestingly, the fruit came first; the color word in English is named after it.
English had no basic word for the color orange until this fruit became common, so people used to call it ‘yellow-red.’ The fruit was so striking that it gave its name to an entire slice of the color spectrum.
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