Was the colour Orange named after the fruit Orange?

The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Sanskrit word nāranja. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English as yellow-red.

The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512, in the court of King Henry VIII.

I think the fruit orange was names after the colour orange

The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Sanskrit word nāranja. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English as yellow-red.

The fruit was named after the color because when they saw how the whole entire fruit orange was the color orange, even the inside, they called the fruit orange the color orange.

I don't know how anyone would be able to understand this LOL

They should have called bananas yellows...

Of course the orange fruit came first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)#Etymo...

I thought that was one of those weird facts everyone knew...

BTW, for you people who are trying to make the analogy "Well...What came first, the chicken or the egg", this is a bad analogy because the Orange situation has an answer that can be proven. (I just DID prove it). The "chicken or the egg" situation does not. (But, if your a Christian, you will believe that the chicken came before the egg, because the Christians believe that god created animals..not a bunch of eggs...) But still, it can't be proven, whereas the Orange situation CAN.

Fruit came first on the planet but orange the color was always orange so depending on which part of the spectrum you are viewing from it could be that both were present but on the other hand the color was here before the planet so I will say the color came first

The citrus fruit was named "naranj" originally (Arabic) and this was changed by European speakers into the familiar "orange". The colour was named for the fruit.

Don't listen to all the other people!

Yes the color is called orange because of the fruit.

The colour was named after the fruit, apparently. There's some interesting info about the derivation of the word here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_%28fruit%29#Et...

it makes sense that the fruit was named after the color cuz oranges are orange so they would say call it a orange