قارپوز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian خربز (xarboz, “melon”).

Noun

قارپوز • (karpuz) (plural قارپوزلر)

1. melon

Descendants

• Turkish: karpuz
• → Bulgarian: карпу̀за (karpùza)
• → Greek: καρπούζι (karpoúzi)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kàrpuza / ка̀рпуза

References

• "melon" in James William Redhouse (1877). A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd ed., Constantinople: A.H. Boyajian, 1884, page 508a