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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Fun fact: in Catalan _aranja_ is a pomelo/grapefruit. I thought the L appeared due to contraction of “the colour of l’orange”
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According to the Catalan etymological source, it comes straight from an arabic version, “de l’àr. tųrųnǧa”. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/naranja I got the order wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word) … “an naranja” “a norange” -> “an orange”
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I’m away from home atm, I’ll check The Secret Lives of Colours when I get back
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