köken: Inherited from Old French cohourge, ultimately from Latin cucurbita, perhaps via Vulgar Latin *cucurbica. Doublet of gourde (from the form cohourde).
köken: Older græskarve n pl, a compound of græs (“grass”) and Middle Low German korvet, korves, Old High German kurbiz (cf. German Kürbis, Swedish kurbits). It is an old loan from Latin cucurbita. Ultimately it derives from Sanskrit चिर्भट (cirbhaṭa), चर्भट (carbhaṭa, “cucumber”).
zucchini, courgette (a small marrow/squash of the species Cucurbita pepo)
köken: From English zucchini, from Italian zucchini, plural of zucchino, diminutive of zucca (“squash”), from Late Latin cucutia (via metathesis and apheresis), from Latin cucurbita (“gourd”).