winter melon

English

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 冬瓜 (dōngguā).

Noun

winter melon (plural winter melons)

1. A vine of the species Benincasa hispida cultivated throughout Asia.
2. A green, fuzzy melon fruit with sweet white flesh, which grows on this vine.

Nearly mature winter melon

Synonyms

• (Benincasa hispida): ash gourd, ash pumpkin, Chinese preserving melon, fuzzy melon, tallow gourd, wax gourd, white gourd, winter gourd

Translations

vine

• Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံ (my) (kyaukhpa.rum), ကျောက်ဖရုံပင် (kyaukhpa.rumpang)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冬瓜藤 (dōngguāténg)

• Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa (fi)
• Khmer: ត្រឡាច (km) (trɑlaac)
• Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) (kumpaḷaṁ)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: kundol

fuzzy melon fruit

• Assamese: কোমোৰা (kümüra)
• Banjarese: kundur
• Bengali: চালকুমড়া (bn) (calkumṛa)
• Bhojpuri: भतुआ (bhatuā)
• Bikol Central: tangkwa (bcl)
• Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံ (my) (kyaukhpa.rum), ကျောက်ဖရုံသီး (kyaukhpa.rumsi:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 冬瓜 (dung¹ gwaa¹), 節瓜／节瓜 (zit³ gwaa¹) (smaller variety with fuzzy skin)

  Hokkien: 冬瓜 (zh-min-nan) (tang-koe)

  Mandarin: 冬瓜 (zh) (dōngguā), 節瓜／节瓜 (zh) (jiéguā)

• Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa (fi)
• French: courge cireuse (fr) f
• German: Wachskürbis m
• Gujarati: ભૂરાકોળું (bhūrākoḷũ)
• Hindi: पेठा (hi) (peṭhā), सफ़ेद कुम्हड़ा (safed kumhaṛā)
• Indonesian: beligo (id), baligo, blonceng, kundur (id)
• Japanese: トウガン (tōgan)
• Javanese: ꦧ꧀ꦭꦺꦴꦚ꧀ꦕꦺꦁ (blonycéng), ꦧ꧀ꦭꦶꦒꦺꦴ (bligo), ꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦢꦸꦂ (jv) (kondur)
• Kannada: ಬೂದುಗುಂಬಳ (kn) (būdugumbaḷa)
• Khmer: ផ្លែត្រឡាច (phlaetrɔɔlaac)
• Korean: 동과(冬瓜) (donggwa)
• Malay: kundur (ms)
• Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) (kumpaḷaṁ), കുമ്പളങ്ങ (ml) (kumpaḷaṅṅa)
• Manchu: ᠴᡳᡵᡴᡠ
  ᡥᡝᠩᡴᡝ (cirku hengke)
• Marathi: कोहळा (kohḷā), कोहाळा (kohāḷā), पांढरा भोपळा (pāṇḍhrā bhopḷā)
• Nepali: कुभिण्डो (ne) (kubhiṇḍo)
• Punjabi: ਪੇਠਾ (pa) m (peṭhā), ਪੇਠਾ ਕੱਦੂ (peṭhā kaddū)
• Russian: воскова́я ты́ква f (voskovája týkva), зи́мняя ты́ква f (zímnjaja týkva), зи́мняя ды́ня f (zímnjaja dýnja)
• Sicilian: cucuzza (scn)
• Sundanese: ᮘᮜᮤᮌᮧ (baligo)
• Tagalog: kundol
• Tamil: நீற்றுப்பூசணி (nīṟṟuppūcaṇi)
• Telugu: బూడిద గుమ్మడి (te) (būḍida gummaḍi)
• Thai: ฟักเขียว (fák kǐao)
• Tibetan: ཀུབ་དཀར། (kub dkar)
• Vietnamese: bí đao (vi)
• Zhuang: lwgfaeg

See also

• gourd

References

• winter melon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Benincasa hispida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Benincasa hispida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons