gourd, calabash (varieties of Lagenaria siceraria) · dolt · bryony (with epithets meaning "wild": silvātica, silvestris, errātica)
çekim: çoğul cucurbitae · tamlayan cucurbitae
köken: Possibly a loanword related to cucumis (“cucumber”), or to corbis (“basket”), corbīta (“freight vessel”). Maybe from Sanskrit चिर्भट m (cirbhaṭa, “long melon, Cucumis melo subsp. melo var. conomon syn. Cucumis melo var. utilissimus”), चर्भट m (carbhaṭa, “idem”), चिर्भटी f (cirbhaṭī, “idem”), but the mediation is unknown. Compare Old English hwerhwette.