قارپوز
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian خربز (xarboz, “melon”).
Noun
قارپوز • (karpuz) (plural قارپوزلر)
Descendants
- Turkish: karpuz
- → Abkhaz: а-карпы́жә (a-kʼarpʼə́ẑʷ)
- → Adyghe: хъырбыдз (χərbədz)
- → Albanian: karpuz
- → Bulgarian: карпу́за (karpúza)
- → Greek: καρπούζι (karpoúzi)
- → Kabardian: хъарбыз (χarbəz)
- → Ladino: karpus
- → 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