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Re:Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” by iamshs on Friday July 27, 2018 @11:15PM (#17631316)
I am wondering why didn't the word percolate to Punjabi language where we call the colour as "santri" and the fruit is called "santra". Hindi has the same word for it, I think.
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Re:Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” by msravi on Friday July 27, 2018 @11:32PM (#17631358)
Or to Kannada, where the fruit is called "kittaLe", despite also being classified a Dravidian language. Kannada and Telugu in general seem to have too many differences from Tamil and Malayalam to be lumped into a common bucket.

The color has always been referred to as "kesari" in Kannada, and translates to saffron.

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