Did the fruit orange come first or did the colour orange come first?

Are oranges called oranges because they are orange. Or is the colour orange called orange because or the fruit?

Did the fruit orange come first or did the colour orange come first?
the color is called orange after the fruit.


etymologically speaking, the word "orange" comes


from Sanskrit "narangah". the word orange (in its


earlier, old english form "orenge") first appears in


recorded history in the late 14th century (1380).





describing an object's color using the word orange


didn't happen until 1542.
Reply:they were found at the same time together cuz an orange(the fruit) is orange (the color)
Reply:probably the fruit came first