this site claims that the fruit was named before the color
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"😉.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29942/which-came-first-orange-color-or-orange-fruit
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this site claims that the fruit was named before the colorThe 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"😉.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29942/which-came-first-orange-color-or-orange-fruit