Why is an orange....

[Mmathis]

Random thoughts..... Dave54's "banana plant" thread gave me the idea to post this.

I was eating an orange last night [a big, juicy navel orange -- yum!] when it occurred to me that, THE ORANGE IS ORANGE!!

Bananas are yellow. Apples are red [or yellow, or green]. Lemons are yellow. Limes are green. You get the idea.

But oranges are orange....

 

[sissy]

they had no clue what to call the fruit and figure it is orange so orange is a good name lime is lime color or is it green .

 

[Mmathis]

they had no clue what to call the fruit and figure it is orange so orange is a good name lime is lime color or is it green .

And "lemon" is a color, too. But the color "lime green" is more of a description of the shade [hue, whatever] of green, I think.

Geesh, this makes me want to find & open one of those 64-color boxes of crayons!

 

[Dave 54]

Crikes what have I started here !!!!!....

Dave

 

[sissy]

we all need our crayons and coloring books now crayon in mine says lime

 

[Big Lou]

All of the oranges I've ever eaten where purple on the outside and rainbow hued on the inside. Orange was just a name picked out of a hat.

You can easily ascertain how passion fruit got its name........"It was a hot, humid evening. Her silhouette in the moonlight ignited linking feelings of..............."

 

[taherrmann4]

Random thoughts..... Dave54's "banana plant" thread gave me the idea to post this.

I was eating an orange last night [a big, juicy navel orange -- yum!] when it occurred to me that, THE ORANGE IS ORANGE!!

Bananas are yellow. Apples are red [or yellow, or green]. Lemons are yellow. Limes are green. You get the idea.

But oranges are orange....

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What was named first the color or the fruit?

 

[Nepen]

you know Turtle mommy, in Thai, Orange is also orange too and I notice that it's only fruite with the color name also like you mentioned... hm.. wondering why's that even in different language.. and if it's the same in other languages too??

 

[HARO]

Same in French, German, and I belive Japanese.
John

 

[Big Lou]

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ora1.htm

 

[Dave 54]

Did you know that carrots used to be a sort of purpley black the colour they now are was bred into them , interestingly there are also white and yellow carrots too.

Dave

 

[Mmathis]

So, it appears that the FRUIT came first! The color was named after the fruit! But, as in the article that Lou cited -- what the heck did people call the COLOR prior to having the fruit????? "That color that's somewhere between red & yellow?" LOL!

http://callistasramblings.com/2010/02/why-is-orange-called-orange/

http://www.whyzz.com/why-are-oranges-orange

 

[Fishylove]

Spanish has different words for orange, depending on how it is used

 

[Mmathis]

Spanish has different words for orange, depending on how it is used

Examples......? How many different ways are there to use "orange?"

 

[Fishylove]

Ok, lets see if I can make a fool of myself lol.
for example:
In Spanish if you use the word orange as a noun its spelled " Naranja" or "Naranjo" (and I think "naranjada" lol, its been a long time)
But if used as an adjective its
" anaranjado" or "naranjado"