Orange

Did you know?

The word Orange originated from the old Sanskrit word, Naranga,

With its root in an old language from India, no longer spoken called Dravidian,

Where it is called arancu.

In Sanskrit, it means, fragrant and richly coloured.

And if you dig the etymology of this citrus, sweet and sour, juicy fruit you would realise,

It was the Portuguese who brought Oranges to Europe from India,

It was their business like mind and their adventurous souls,

Who loved to explore new foods and places,

Putting a place, a food, a fruit, a culture on the map of the world,

That these "narangi" became Narancs in Hungarian,

Naranja in Spanish.

Narancia in Italian and Narange in French,

Who dropped the n from it to compensate for their grammar una and une to become arancia now.

So, even though we might get an answer to the question, who came first, the chicken or the egg?

But, here, what came first, the fruit or the colour,

Because they exist in their co-dependence,

So much that without each other,

They wouldn't have poetries written about them.

That someone peeling oranges would be considered as a tender act of love,

And the fragments of these fragrant arancia would mean so much than a piece of fruit.