winter melon

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 冬瓜 (dōngguā) winter melon.

Noun

winter melon (plural winter melons)

A vine of the species Benincasa hispida cultivated throughout Asia.
A green, fuzzy melon fruit with sweet white flesh, which grows on this vine.

Nearly mature winter melon

Synonyms

(Benincasa hispida): ash gourd, fuzzy melon, wax gourd, white gourd

Translations

vine

Chinese:
Mandarin: 冬瓜藤 (dōngguāténg)
Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa (fi)

Russian: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: kundol

fuzzy melon fruit

Banjarese: kundur
Bengali: চালকুমড়া (calkumṛa)
Bhojpuri: भतुआ (bhatuā)
Bikol Central: tangkwa
Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံပင် (kyaukhpa.rumpang)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 冬瓜 (dung¹ gwaa¹), 節瓜, 节瓜 (zit³ gwaa¹) (smaller variety with fuzzy skin)

Mandarin: 冬瓜 (zh) (dōngguā), 節瓜, 节瓜 (jiéguā)

Min Nan: 冬瓜 (zh-min-nan) (tang-koe)
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, kundur (id)
Japanese: トウガン (tōgan)
Javanese: ꦧ꧀ꦭꦺꦴꦚ꧀ꦕꦺꦁ (bloncèng), ꦧ꧀ꦭꦶꦒꦺꦴ (bligo), ꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦢꦸꦂ (jv) (kondur)

Kannada: ಬೂದುಗುಂಬಳ (kn) (būdugumbaḷa)
Korean: 동과 (donggwa (冬瓜))
Malay: kundur
Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) (kumpaḷaṃ)
Marathi: कोहळा (kohḷā), कोहाळा (kohāḷā), पांढरा भोपळा (pāṇḍhrā bhopḷā)
Nepali: कुभिण्डो (ne) (kubhiṇḍo)
Punjabi: ਪੇਠਾ ਕੱਦੂ (peṭhā kadū)
Russian: воскова́я ты́ква f (voskovája týkva), зи́мняя ты́ква f (zímnjaja týkva), зи́мняя ды́ня f (zímnjaja dýnja)
Sicilian: cucuzza (scn)
Sundanese: ᮘᮜᮤᮌᮧ (baligo)
Tagalog: kundol
Tamil: நீற்றுப்பூசணி (nīṟṟuppūcaṇi)
Telugu: బూడిద గుమ్మడి (te) (būḍida gummaḍi)
Tibetan: ཀུབ་དཀར། (kub dkar)
Vietnamese: bí đao
Zhuang: lwgfaeg

See also

gourd

References

winter melon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Benincasa hispida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Benincasa hispida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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