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Fun fact: the color orange was named after the fruit, and not the fruit named for the color.
In my mother tongue, also a Dravidian language, narangayi means lemon. Orange is actually called chitt-puli.
It was kept in Spanish tho, naranja.
Same in Hungarian, narancs.
What was the color called before that?
The color was called yellowred before oranges were discovered.
And they spelled it: Geoluread
Basically red. The names for orange and purple are pretty recent inventions, linguistically speaking. That's why we call them red onions and red grapes when they're purple and most "red" birds are actually orange.
Pink as well.some cultures still just refer to pink as "light red". Some cultures don't distinguish between blue and green. Some cultures make specific distinctions between blue and light blue. (see Italian; Azzurro)