Are oranges called oranges because they are orange or is orange called orange because oranges are orange?

This is what my mind is wondering *sigh*🙄

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Elessar · 31-35, M

First the fruit. The color was generically called "red" or "yellow-red" until Renaissance

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/orange-fruit-color-origin