قاون

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kāgun. Cognate with Old Turkic kaguŋ‎ (kaguŋ), kabuŋ‎ (kabuŋ, “melon”).

Noun

قاون • (kavun)

melon
lemon
Synonym: لیمون‎ (limon)

Descendants

Turkish: kavun
→ Arabic: قَاوُون‎ (qāwūn)
- → Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: qawin, qawûn
→ Ukrainian: каву́н (kavún) (or possibly from Tatar)
- → Belarusian: каву́н (kavún)
- → Polish: kawon
- → Yiddish: קאַווענע‎ (kavene)

References

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قاون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3603

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