قاوون

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاون (kavun, melon), from Proto-Turkic *kagun.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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قَاوُون (qāwūnm (collective, singulative قَاوُونَة f (qāwūna), plural قَوَاوِين (qawāwīn))

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

Usage notes

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The meaning depends on the regiolect.

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: qawin, qawûn

References

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  • قاوون” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قاوون”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (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 with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قاوون”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 994