Reply To: Did you know that the word 'Orange' is the name of the fruit and not the color?

This is damn interesting! Adding on the fact about languages, I think it’s rooted from South Indian languages, possibly Tamil (my native language). As the wiki says (no citations), in Tamil, people used to call it as Naram. However, I never hear anyone calling it that way in India now. There is a possibility that the Arabs might’ve gotten it from the Indian languages. I think it’s quite the same in Spanish too.