melon (plant, fruit) · bowler hat · melons: a woman’s breasts, especially when large
çekim: çoğul Melonen · tamlayan Melonen
eş: Bowler
köken: Borrowed roughly simultaneously (15th c.) in the south from Italian melone, in the north through Middle Low German melōne and Middle Dutch meloen from Middle French melon. Both from Late Latin mēlō, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, literally “ripe fruit”).
köken: Inherited from Old French melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”). More at English melon.
aile: avoir le melon, chapeau melon, melon de France, melon de Montréal, melon d'eau
melon (plant or fruit of certain varieties of members of the Cucurbitaceae, notably excluding cucumbers and courgettes/zucchinis) · melon (organ containing adipose tissue present in toothed whales) · melon, (large) breast
çekim: çoğul meloenen
köken: From Middle Dutch melone, from Middle French melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin mēlō, shortening of mēlopepō, from Koine Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn).
watermelon (any plant of the genus Citrullus) · watermelon (fruit of this plant) · pumpkin, gourd, squash (any plant of the genus Cucurbita)
çekim: çoğul arbuzy · tamlayan arbuza
eş: kawon, arbuziarz
köken: Borrowed from Russian арбу́з (arbúz). First attested in 1613. Doublet of harbuz, an obsolete borrowing from Ukrainian. Compare Old Polish karbusz.
From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlbyck' /xarbīzag/, “watermelon”), of unclear origin: * According to Horn, the latter is formed as (xar, “ass, donkey”) + (bwcnʾ /bōzīnʾ/, “cucumber; citron”). The first part is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kʰáras, and the second part is probably related to Proto-Semitic *būṣ-. However, this is considered a folk etymology by Nişanyan. * According to…