Have you met the fruit? There’s a bunch of languages* that call oranges this way.
*Catalan did this for some time, to distinguish between sour oranges and sweet oranges (taronja de Portugal). Then it spread to languages from Southern Italy, due to Aragonese control over those lands. Then to languages in the Ottoman Empire due to commerce.
(You’d be surprised with the amount of fruits named after locations.)
Have you met the fruit? There’s a bunch of languages* that call oranges this way.
*Catalan did this for some time, to distinguish between sour oranges and sweet oranges (taronja de Portugal). Then it spread to languages from Southern Italy, due to Aragonese control over those lands. Then to languages in the Ottoman Empire due to commerce.
(You’d be surprised with the amount of fruits named after locations.)
True, portokal!