köken: From Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Classical Persian نارنگ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”); influenced in form by a folk etymology connecting it with aurum (“gold”). See orange for more.
copperpod, yellow-flamboyant, yellow flametree, yellow poinciana, or yellow-flame (Peltophorum pterocarpum) · the bark of such tree · dye from the bark of such tree
Inherited from Middle French fauve, from Old French falve, from Late Latin falvus, a borrowing from Frankish *falu, *falw- (compare Dutch vaal, English fallow and German falb), from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (“pale, grey”). The adjectival sense of "savage, fierce" comes from the noun sense "wild animal," which is in turn a shortening of bête au pelage fauve (“animal with tawny fur”).