Question

What Came first, the color orange or the fruit?

Answer 1

the fruit

Step-by-step explanation:

The citrus definitely got named first. The earliest recorded use of orange the fruit in English is from the 1300s

Answer 2

The citrus definitely got named first. The earliest recorded use of orange the fruit in English is from the 1300s and came to us from the Old French orenge, adapted from the Arabic nāranj, from the Persian nārang, from the Sanskrit nāranga (“orange tree”)