Talk:xigua

Examples

From The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction:

… and the watermelon, which is originally African but known in Chinese as xigua, or "western melon," reflecting its arrival via the silk road.

From A Short History of the World:

The grape comes from the west, and the watermelon even now is known as xigua or the western melon.

RFV discussion: July–October 2012

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xigua

xiguas

I am requesting the attestation of the existence of the form in English, in the first place. I cannot find anything on Google Books and Usenet; even google:"xiguas" does not seem to find anything. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:36, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

• If the "singular" didn't deserve RFV presumably the plural doesn't either. Siuenti (talk) 10:24, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

  Either this should've been speedily deleted, or xigua should've been fully RFV'd. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:29, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

I've brought xigua back purely for the purposes of this rfv: it means that non-admins will be able to see the entry's history, contributors and so on. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:53, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

This is total utter bs. xīguā is the pinyin for 西瓜 (Citrullus vulgaris), which is the exact Mandarin equivalent of watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris). The author might have spotted its use in an Asian supermarket, written by someone who didn't know how to say it in English. Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 22:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 22:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

RFD discussion: June 2022

See Talk:feichang#RFD discussion: June 2022.