On: Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”

[cagataygurturk]

In Turkish, orange is called „Portakal“. Reason is, this fruit was introduced to Ottoman soil by Portuguese sailors. Probably Turkish people heard the name first from North African Arabs living in Ottoman Empire, and they started to use this word.

[jug → cagataygurturk]

Kind of the same concept as in Swedish with ”apelsin” for orange (the fruit). apel + sin = Apple from China.

[tk75x → jug]

I was reading comments to see if anybody mentioned the Russian words for orange color and fruit. "apelsin" is the word for the fruit and must have come over from Western Europe but the word for the color is "oranzhevuy" which is just "naranj" with the adjective suffix.