خربزه

• خربز‎ (xarboz)
• خربوزه‎ (xarbuze)
• خربیزه‎ (xarbize) (dialectal)

From Middle Persian hlbyck' (xarbīzag, “watermelon”).

According to Horn, a native formation literally meaning “donkey cucumber”: compare Middle Persian hl (xar, “ass, donkey”) and [script needed] (bōǰīnā, “cucumber”), however this is considered a folk etymology by Nişanyan.

According to Pelliot, a reshaping of Sanskrit त्रपुस (trapusa, “the fruit of colocynth”) by popular etymology. Forms with t- are attested in Persian: تربز‎ (tarboze), تربز‎ (tarboz, “watermelon”).

Akin to Middle Armenian խարպիզակ (xarpizak), խարբզակ (xarbzak), Georgian ხარბუზაკი (xarbuzaḳi), ხაბურზაკი (xaburzaḳi), Iranian borrowings.

خربزه • (xarboze) (plural خربزه‌ها‎ (xarboze-hâ))

1. melon

• → Arabic: خِرْبِز‎ (khirbeez, “melon”)
• → Hindi: ख़रबूज़ा (xarbūzā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خربز‎ (harbüz), خربزه‎ (harbüze)
  • → Old East Slavic: арбузъ (arbuzŭ)
    • → Russian: арбу́з (arbúz)
      • → Estonian: arbuus
      • → Latvian: arbūzs
      • → Lithuanian: arbūzas
    • → Polish: arbuz
  • → Ukrainian: гарбу́з (harbúz, “pumpkin”)
    • → Polish: harbuz
    • → Romanian: harbuz
• → Turkic: (taking Persian as representative for all Iranian)
  • Azerbaijani: qarpız
    • → Persian: قارپوز‎ (qârpuz)
  • Bashkir: ҡарбуз (qarbuz)
  • Crimean Tatar: qarpız
  • Kazakh: қарбыз (qarbız)
  • Ottoman Turkish: قارپوز‎ (karpuz)
    • Turkish: karpuz
    • → Albanian: karpuz
    • → Bulgarian: карпу́з (karpúz)
    • → Greek: καρπούζι (karpoúzi)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: ка̀рпуза, kàrpuza
  • Tatar: карбыз (qarbız)
  • Turkmen: garpyz
• → Sanskrit: खर्बूज (kharbūja)

• Horn, Paul (1893), “xerbuze”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 105
• Vasmer, Max (1964), “арбуз”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress, page 83
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “karpuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20) (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1590
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “խարպիզակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 348b