köken: Uncertain. Read in Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kaẟō). In Gilaki کوی (kūī, “gourd; bowl, vessel, stop”), Northern Luri کودی (kodi). Possibly related to Sanskrit कटु (kaṭu, “bitter”), or a variant reflex of کندو (kandū, “beehive; a large clay bin for grain”) extended from Aramaic כּדּא (kaddā), כַּנְדָּא (kandā), from Old Tamil 𑀓𑀺𑀡𑁰𑀝𑀺 (kiṇṭi).
gourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container) · calabash · bong (for smoking marijuana)
çekim: çoğul cabaças
eş: cabaço, catuto, porongo, cuia, cumbuca, boi
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from earlier *cabalaça, possibly metathised from local latin *calapatia via Paleo-Hispanic. Cognate with Galician cabaza, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.
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.
gourd, cucurbit (plant of genus Lagenaria, within the Cucurbitaceae family) · nob, pate (derogatory word for head)
çekim: çoğul крату́ни
köken: Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary presumes a borrowing from a Balkan Latin contamination of Latin cortīna (“couldron”) and lagūna (“narrow-necked vessel”). The later gives the scientific name of the genus.
pumpkin, squash, gourd · cured gourd used traditionally in Galicia as a container for liquids · bad grades
çekim: çoğul cabazas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from an earlier *calabaça, probably from Paleo-Hispanic *calapaccia. Cognate with Portuguese cabaça, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *labuq₂ (“the bottle gourd: Lagenaria siceraria”); reconstructed by Robert Blust (compare Tboli labuk (“the bottle gourd: Lagenaria siceraria”), Central Dusun hobuʔ (“calabash, type of gourd”)); alternatively, from Sanskrit अलाबु (alābu). Note that the reconstruction by Blust explained the final plosive in Tboli and Dusun that a derivation from Sanskrit…