خربزه

Persian

Alternative forms

• خربز (xarboz), خربوزه (xarbuze), خربیزه (xarbize) (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlbyck' /⁠xarbīzag⁠/, “watermelon”).

According to Horn, a native formation literally meaning “donkey cucumber”: compare Middle Persian hl (xar, “ass, donkey”) and [script needed] (bōǰīnā, “cucumber”), however this is considered a folk etymology by Nişanyan.

According to Pelliot, a reshaping of Sanskrit त्रपुस (trapusa, “the fruit of colocynth”) by popular etymology. Forms with t- are attested in Persian: تربزه (tarboze), تربز (tarboz, “watermelon”).

Akin to Middle Armenian խարպիզակ (xarpizak), խարբզակ (xarbzak), Georgian ხარბუზაკი (xarbuzaḳi), ხაბურზაკი (xaburzaḳi), Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Dari	خربزه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	харбуза

خربزه • (xarboze) (plural خربزه‌ها (xarboze-hâ))

1. melon

Descendants

• → Arabic: خِرْبِز (ḵirbiz, “melon”)
• → Hindustani:
  • → Urdu: خربوزہ (xarbūzā)
  • → Hindi: ख़रबूज़ा (xarbūzā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خربز (harbüz), خربزه (harbüze)

• • → Old East Slavic: арбузъ (arbuzŭ)
    • Russian: арбу́з (arbúz)
      • → Estonian: arbuus
      • → Latvian: arbūzs
      • → Lithuanian: arbūzas
      • → Polish: arbuz
      • → Volga German: Erbus
  • → Ukrainian: гарбу́з (harbúz, “pumpkin”)
    • → Belarusian: гарбу́з (harbúz)
    • → Polish: harbuz
    • → Romanian: harbuz
• → Turkic: (taking Persian as representative for all Iranian)
  • Azerbaijani: qarpız
    • → Persian: قارپوز (qârpuz)
  • Bashkir: ҡарбуз (qarbuz)
  • Crimean Tatar: qarpız
  • Kazakh: қарбыз (qarbyz)
  • Ottoman Turkish: قارپوز (karpuz)
    • Turkish: karpuz
    • → Albanian: karpuz
    • → Bulgarian: карпу̀з (karpùz)
    • → Greek: καρπούζι (karpoúzi)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: ка̀рпуза, kàrpuza
  • Tatar: карбыз (qarbız)
  • Turkmen: garpyz
• → Sanskrit: खर्बूज (kharbūja)

References

• Horn, Paul (1893) “xerbuze”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 105
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “арбуз”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karpuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1590
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “խարպիզակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 348b