Why do you think the orange was named "orange"?

Question

cuz idk it would be like naming a lime "green" ....... what ya think?

Answer 1

I dunno why it's called an orange, but it's a little bit different than calling a lime a 'green', because almost everywhere you look in nature something's green (grass, leaves etc).  Maybe it's because the orange stands out more against a green background.

Answer 2

The name of the fruit was NARANJ in Sanskrit. This language was spoken in ancient India. Indians traded with Arabs, so the word passed into Arabic as NARANJAH. The Spaniards were ruled by north African Arabs who passed the fruit and word into Spanish as NARANJA (pronounced as NARANHA).

This came into English where the fruit was a NARANJ. Words ending in J are not common in English so the spelling quickly changed to a NARANGE.

The initial N moved to the a because of mis-hearing to give an ARANGE (this is called metanalysis).

Over time, the initial A became an O to give an ORANGE.

Coincidence I suppose...

Answer 3

coz it come from a orange

Answer 4

emmm they just went with it

Answer 5

Um, yea- I got nothin after that.  Sorry.

Answer 6

when people started naming fruits and vegetables, they picked up an orange and said "well its color is orange so we'll call it an orange".

Then they picked up a carrot and said "oh shlt... we gotta find a different way to do this"

Answer 7

maybe because it is orange