Romanian language calls oranges "portocale" so definitely Persian origin by route of the Ottoman Empire. In Turkish it's "portakallar".
Speaking of weird names, we don't call oranges orange but we do call tomatoes "reds" (roșii).
And we call corn "pigeon" (porumb - from "palumbus" which is Latin for pigeon).
To finish, the Romanian word for "chainsaw" comes from Russian but neither Romanians know what it means in Russian nor do Russians suspect what it got to mean in Romanian. So "chainsaw" in Romanian - drujba - means "friendship" - Дружба - in Russian. Therefore when someone comes with the friendship at you, you better run, we'd have "The Texas friendship massacre" :)
Speaking of weird names, we don't call oranges orange but we do call tomatoes "reds" (roșii).
And we call corn "pigeon" (porumb - from "palumbus" which is Latin for pigeon).
To finish, the Romanian word for "chainsaw" comes from Russian but neither Romanians know what it means in Russian nor do Russians suspect what it got to mean in Romanian. So "chainsaw" in Romanian - drujba - means "friendship" - Дружба - in Russian. Therefore when someone comes with the friendship at you, you better run, we'd have "The Texas friendship massacre" :)