قاوون

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاون (kavun, melon) from Proto-Turkic *kāgun, see there for more cognates.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qaː.wuːn/

Noun

قَاوُون (qāwūn) m (collective, singulative قَاوُونَة (qāwūna), plural قَوَاوِين (qawāwīn))

  1. bitter melon (Momordica charantia and its fruit)
  2. cantaloupe (Cucumis melo var. cantalupo and its fruit)

Declension

Descendants
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: qawin, qawûn

References

  • قاوون” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), قاوون”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 296
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), قاوون”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 864
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), قاوون”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 994
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