melon

See also melón, and mełon

English

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Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ˈmɛlən/
• Rhymes: -ɛlən

Etymology

Old French melon, from Medieval Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem (“type of pumpkin”), from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopepōn), from μῆλον (mēlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pepōn, “ripe”).

Noun

melon (countable and uncountable; plural melons)

1. Any of various fruits of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
2. A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.

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3. (in the plural, slang) Breasts.
4. (slang) The head.

Translations

fruit

Afrikaans: meloen (af) Albanian: pjepër (sq) f. Arabic: شمام (šammām) m. Armenian: սեխ (hy) (sex) Azeri: yemiş (az), qovun (az) Bengali: ফুটি (phuṭi) Bulgarian: пъпеш (bg) (pŭpesh) Catalan: meló (ca) m. Cheyenne: mȧhooˀo Chinese: Mandarin: 瓜 (cmn) (guā), 甜瓜 (cmn) (tiánguā) Czech: meloun (cs) m. Dutch: meloen (nl) Esperanto: melono (eo) Ewe: aɖiba n. Finnish: meloni (fi) French: melon (fr) m. Galician: melón (gl) f. Georgian: ნესვი (ka) (nesvi) German: Melone (de) f. Greek: πεπόνι (el) (pepóni) n. Hebrew: אבטיח (he) (avatiach) m.,  (he) (melon) Hungarian: dinnye (hu) Ido: melono (io) Indonesian: melon (id) Irish: mealbhacán (ga) m. Italian: melone (it) m. Japanese: メロン (meron)

Korean: South Korean : 멜론 (mellon), 메론 (melon) Nouth Korean : 향참외 (hyang chamoe) Kurdish: gundor m., petêx m., xerûze m., qomî m., qire m., qawin m., کاڵه‌گ Luxembourgish: Meloun (lb) f. Macedonian: диња (mk) (dínja) f. Maltese: bettieħa (mt) f. Navajo: taʼneeskʼání Norwegian: melon (no) Ojibwe: ezaawaanh, eshkandaming Old Irish: melbucán m. Papago: miloni Persian: خربزه (fa) (kharboze) Polish: melon (pl) m. Portuguese: melão (pt) m. Romanian: pepene (ro), pepene galben (ro) Russian: дыня (ru) (dýnja) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ди̏ња (sh) f. Roman: dȉnja (sh) f. Spanish: melón (es) m. Swedish: melon (sv) c. Tatar: кавын (tt) Thai: แตง (th) (dtaaeng) Turkish: kavun (tr) Turkmen: gawun (tk) Vietnamese: dưa tây (vi) Yiddish: מעלאָן (yi) (melon) m.

colour

French: melon (fr) m. and f. Greek: πεπονί (peponí) n.

Turkish: kavuniçi (tr)

slang: breasts

Finnish: melonit (fi) pl., munkit (fi) pl. French: melons (fr) m. pl., pastèques (fr) f. pl. Greek: πεπόνια (el) (pepónia) n. pl.

Italian: meloni (it) pl. Portuguese: melões (pt) m. pl. Turkish: karpuzlar (tr) pl.

Adjective

melon

1. Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.

Translations

colour

Greek: πεπονής (peponís) m., πεπονιά (peponiá) f., πεπονί (peponí) n.; πεπονόχρους (peponóchrous) m. and f., πεπονόχρουν (peponóchroun) n.

Turkish: kavuniçi (tr)

Derived terms

honeydew melon melon-headed melony muskmelon

Ogen melon Persian melon rockmelon

watermelon winter melon

See also

calabash cantaloupe casaba

crenshaw melinite spanspek

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Anagrams

• lemon

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Esperanto

Noun

melon

1. accusative singular of melo

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Finnish

Verb

melon

1. First-person singular indicative present form of meloa.

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French

Etymology

Old French melon, from Medieval Latin. More at English melon.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mə.lɔ̃/

Noun

melon m. (plural melons)

1. melon (fruit)

Derived terms

• melon d'eau m.

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Indonesian

Noun

melon

1. melon

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Polish

Pronunciation

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Noun

melon m.

1. melon (fruit)

Declension

    declension of melon

	singular	plural
nominative	melon	melony
genitive	melona	melonów
dative	melonowi	melonom
accusative	melon	melony
instrumental	melonem	melonami
locative	melonie	melonach
vocative	melonie	melony