Which came first, the fruit orange or the color orange?

The word orange is derived from Sanskrit nāraṅgaḥ "orange tree." and in Telugu "Naringa". The Sanskrit word was borrowed into European languages through Persian nārang, Armenian nārinj, Arabic nāranj, Late Latin arangia, Italian arancia or arancio, and Old French orenge, in chronological order. The first appearance in English dates from the 14th century. The forms starting with n- are older; this initial n- may have been mistaken as part of the indefinite article, in languages with articles ending with an -n sound. The name of the colour is derived from the fruit, first appearing in this sense in 1542.

Basically, this means that the color came first in the early 1500's and that the fruit was named for the color when it first appeared in 1542.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)

In the abstract, the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which we refer to as orange would obviously have existed before the appearance of the fruit to which we give the same name. However, as far as using this word to describe the two, the fruit comes before the colour.

"The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Sanskrit word nāranja. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English as yellow-red. The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512,[1] in the court of King Henry VIII."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)

The exact etymology of the word orange in multiple languages is a matter of some debate, and is probably not as simple as the previous statement suggests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)

The word "Orange" comes from several Indian languages like Tamil (naram), Telugu (narinja) and Sanskrit (narangam) all of which mean the fruit of the orange tree. From there the name of the fruit has become the name of certain color. The colour orange was referred as "geoluhread" in Old English, which means "yellow-red".

So, we can say that the fruit orange has come first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)

The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Arabic word naranj.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=orange