Winter Melon - Wiktionary

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Calque of Chinese 冬瓜 (dōngguā).

Noun

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Fruits of Benincasa hispida

winter melon (plural winter melons)

  1. Benincasa hispida, a species of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) commonly cultivated in Asia.
Synonyms
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  • ash gourd, ash pumpkin, Chinese preserving melon, fuzzy melon, tallow gourd, wax gourd, white gourd, winter gourd
Translations
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  • Assamese: কোমোৰা (kümüra)
  • Banjarese: kundur
  • Bengali: চালকুমড়া (bn) (calkumṛa)
  • Bhojpuri: भतुआ (bhatuā)
  • Bikol Central: tangkwa (bcl)
  • Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံ (my) (kyaukhpa.rum), ကျောက်ဖရုံသီး (kyaukhpa.rumsi:), ကျောက်ဖရုံပင် (kyaukhpa.rumpang)
  • Chinese: Cantonese: 冬瓜 (dung1 gwaa1), 節瓜 / 节瓜 (zit3 gwaa1) (smaller variety with fuzzy skin) Hokkien: 冬瓜 (zh-min-nan) (tang-koe) Mandarin: 冬瓜 (zh) (dōngguā), 節瓜 / 节瓜 (zh) (jiéguā)
  • Dutch: waspompoen (nl) m
  • Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa (fi)
  • French: courge cireuse (fr) f
  • German: Wachskürbis m
  • Gujarati: ભૂરાકોળું (bhūrākoḷũ)
  • Hindi: पेठा (hi) (peṭhā), सफ़ेद कुम्हड़ा (safed kumhaṛā)
  • Indonesian: beligo (id), baligo, blonceng (id), kundur (id)
  • Japanese: トウガン (tōgan)
  • Javanese: ꦧ꧀ꦭꦺꦴꦚ꧀ꦕꦺꦁ (blonycéng), ꦧ꧀ꦭꦶꦒꦺꦴ (bligo), ꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦢꦸꦂ (jv) (kondur)
  • Kannada: ಬೂದುಗುಂಬಳ (kn) (būdugumbaḷa)
  • Khiamniungan Naga: thōitsì
  • Khmer: ត្រឡាច (km) (trɑlaac), ផ្លែត្រឡាច (phlaetrɔɔlaac)
  • Korean: 동과(冬瓜) (donggwa)
  • Malay: kundur (ms)
  • Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) (kumpaḷaṁ), കുമ്പളങ്ങ (ml) (kumpaḷaṅṅa)
  • Manchu: ᠴᡳᡵᡴᡠᡥᡝᠩᡴᡝ (cirku hengke)
  • Marathi: कोहळा (kohḷā), कोहाळा (kohāḷā), पांढरा भोपळा (pāṇḍhrā bhopḷā)
  • Mizo: maipâwl
  • Nepali: कुभिण्डो (ne) (kubhiṇḍo)
  • Okinawan: シブイ
  • Punjabi: ਪੇਠਾ (pa) m (peṭhā), ਪੇਠਾ ਕੱਦੂ (peṭhā kaddū)
  • Rarotongan: ʻue roro
  • Russian: воскова́я ты́ква f (voskovája týkva), зи́мняя ты́ква f (zímnjaja týkva), зи́мняя ды́ня f (zímnjaja dýnja)
  • Samoan: fagu
  • Sicilian: cucuzza (scn)
  • Spanish: calabaza china f, calabaza blanca f
  • Sundanese: ᮘᮜᮤᮌᮧ (baligo)
  • Tagalog: kundol
  • Tahitian: hue ʻaroro
  • Tamil: நீற்றுப்பூசணி (nīṟṟuppūcaṇi)
  • Telugu: బూడిద గుమ్మడి (te) (būḍida gummaḍi)
  • Thai: ฟักเขียว (fák kǐao)
  • Tibetan: ཀུབ་དཀར། (kub dkar)
  • Tongan: fangu
  • Vietnamese: bí đao (vi)
  • Zhuang: lwgfaeg

Etymology 2

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Calque of French melon d'hiver.

'Amarillo Canario', a cultivar of Spanish melon

Noun

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winter melon (plural winter melons)

  1. Any late-maturing variety of true melon (Cucumis melo), such as honeydew melon (Inodorus Group), Cassaba melon (Cassaba Group), and Spanish melon (Ibericus Group).
Synonyms
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  • late melon
Translations
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  • Chinese: Mandarin: 冬甜瓜 (dōngtiánguā)
  • French: melon d'hiver m
  • German: Wintermelone
  • Russian: зи́мняя ды́ня f (zímnjaja dýnja)
  • Spanish: melón de invierno m

Etymology 3

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Noun

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winter melon (plural winter melons)

  1. (obsolete) A type of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus).
    • 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets:There is also a winter-melon, large and with black seeds, exceedingly cooling, brought us from abroad, and the hotter climates, where they drink water after eating melons...

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