قاوون

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قاون (kavun, “melon”), from Proto-Turkic *kagun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qaː.wuːn/

Noun

قَاوُون • (qāwūn) m (collective, singulative قَاوُونَة f (qāwūna), plural قَوَاوِين (qawāwīn))

1. cantaloupe (Cucumis melo var. cantalupo and its fruit)
2. honeydew melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus)
3. bitter melon (Momordica charantia and its fruit)

Usage notes

The meaning depends on the regiolect.

Declension

Declension of noun قَاوُون (qāwūn)

collective	basic collective triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	قَاوُون qāwūn	الْقَاوُون al-qāwūn	قَاوُون qāwūn
nominative	قَاوُونٌ qāwūnun	الْقَاوُونُ al-qāwūnu	قَاوُونُ qāwūnu
accusative	قَاوُونًا qāwūnan	الْقَاوُونَ al-qāwūna	قَاوُونَ qāwūna
genitive	قَاوُونٍ qāwūnin	الْقَاوُونِ al-qāwūni	قَاوُونِ qāwūni
singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	قَاوُونَة qāwūna	الْقَاوُونَة al-qāwūna	قَاوُونَة qāwūnat
nominative	قَاوُونَةٌ qāwūnatun	الْقَاوُونَةُ al-qāwūnatu	قَاوُونَةُ qāwūnatu
accusative	قَاوُونَةً qāwūnatan	الْقَاوُونَةَ al-qāwūnata	قَاوُونَةَ qāwūnata
genitive	قَاوُونَةٍ qāwūnatin	الْقَاوُونَةِ al-qāwūnati	قَاوُونَةِ qāwūnati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	قَاوُونَتَيْن qāwūnatayn	الْقَاوُونَتَيْن al-qāwūnatayn	قَاوُونَتَيْ qāwūnatay
nominative	قَاوُونَتَانِ qāwūnatāni	الْقَاوُونَتَانِ al-qāwūnatāni	قَاوُونَتَا qāwūnatā
accusative	قَاوُونَتَيْنِ qāwūnatayni	الْقَاوُونَتَيْنِ al-qāwūnatayni	قَاوُونَتَيْ qāwūnatay
genitive	قَاوُونَتَيْنِ qāwūnatayni	الْقَاوُونَتَيْنِ al-qāwūnatayni	قَاوُونَتَيْ qāwūnatay
paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	قَاوُونَات qāwūnāt	الْقَاوُونَات al-qāwūnāt	قَاوُونَات qāwūnāt
nominative	قَاوُونَاتٌ qāwūnātun	الْقَاوُونَاتُ al-qāwūnātu	قَاوُونَاتُ qāwūnātu
accusative	قَاوُونَاتٍ qāwūnātin	الْقَاوُونَاتِ al-qāwūnāti	قَاوُونَاتِ qāwūnāti
genitive	قَاوُونَاتٍ qāwūnātin	الْقَاوُونَاتِ al-qāwūnāti	قَاوُونَاتِ qāwūnāti
plural of variety	basic broken plural diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	قَوَاوِين qawāwīn	الْقَوَاوِين al-qawāwīn	قَوَاوِين qawāwīn
nominative	قَوَاوِينُ qawāwīnu	الْقَوَاوِينُ al-qawāwīnu	قَوَاوِينُ qawāwīnu
accusative	قَوَاوِينَ qawāwīna	الْقَوَاوِينَ al-qawāwīna	قَوَاوِينَ qawāwīna
genitive	قَوَاوِينَ qawāwīna	الْقَوَاوِينِ al-qawāwīni	قَوَاوِينِ qawāwīni

Descendants

• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: qawin, qawûn

References

• “قاوون” in Almaany
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “قاوون”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 296
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “قاوون”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 864
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “قاوون”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 994