The world's languages can be grouped into those which call oranges oranges, those which call oranges apples and those which call oranges Portugals.
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orange is called portakal on turkish because that's how we met oranges, through portugals. :) also, i think that naranj word is of arabic origin.
Yes, that's what I heard... though it's interesting that at least some variants of Arabic later adopted the Turkish word!