Which came first - The name of orange or its color?

 Hi guys! How you all? Sorry that I didn't write my last week's blog but today's topic of discussion is a very much interesting one. Many of us love to eat fruits and mostly all people will love oranges (mainly my sister, she is crazy about oranges). Here is the question, Which Came First: Orange the Color or Orange the Fruit? It is very tricky isn't it? 

 Today’s word “orange” was actually first used to describe the tree that the fruit grows on. The word’s roots can be traced all the way back to Sanskrit. In that language, the word naranga meant “orange tree.” Naranga evolved into the Persian word narang and the Arabic word naranj. If you know Spanish, these old words might look very familiar - the modern Spanish word for “orange” is “naranja.”After that it eventually came to mean the fruit, not just the orange tree. Old French adapted the Arabic word naranj as “pomme d’orenge” (“the fruit from the orange tree”) or just “orenge.” Speakers of Middle English adopted the phrase; the Middle English equivalent “pume orange” dates back to the 13th century AD.

The word didn’t come to describe a color until almost 200 years later. In 1512, a description of the color using the word “orange” appeared - in a rather strange place. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the use of the word first appeared in…a will. Now I don’t want to throw out my orange peels? These uses of rinds are surprising isn't?

So, the only mystery that remains is…how did people describe the color before 1512? According to the Huffington post, speakers of Old English used the word geoluread, meaning “yellow-red.” But thanks to an Old French word, the color orange has a name all its own. And a unique name, at that—”orange” doesn’t rhyme with any other word in English.

Very interesting isn't? Please do comment your feedback and thoughts about my today's post. Do not forget to comment and even share. I will meet you guys with some more interesting topic next week till that bye!!!

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