cantaloupe

English

Wikipedia

Cantaloupes.

Etymology

From Italian Cantalupo (a place name), after a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons were first grown after being introduced to Europe.

Alternative forms

• cantaloup
• cantalope

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.tə.luːp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.tə.loʊp/

Noun

cantaloupe (plural cantaloupes)

1. (Europe) A type of melon, Cucumis melo subsp. cantalupensis; also known as true cantaloupe. [From 1739.]
2. (Australia, US) A type of melon, Cucumis melo subsp. reticulatus, with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting; also known as muskmelon or rockmelon.

Synonyms

• (Cucumis melo cantalupensis): true cantaloupe
• (Cucumis melo reticulatus): muskmelon, rockmelon

Translations

melon

• Albanian: pjepër
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: كنتالوب m (kantalup)

• Aromanian: piponj
• Catalan: meló cantalup m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羅馬甜瓜, 罗马甜瓜 (Luómǎ tiánguā), 哈密瓜 (zh) (Hāmìguā), 香瓜 (zh) (xiāngguā)

• Danish: kantalup
• Dutch: kantaloep
• Finnish: cantaloupe (fi), verkkomeloni
• French: cantaloup (fr)
• German: Kantalupe
• Hungarian: sárgadinnye (hu)
• Icelandic: kantalúpmelóna f, cantaloup-melóna f
• Italian: cantalupo m, zatta (it) f

• Japanese: メロン (meron)
• Korean: 멜론 (mellon)
• Lenape: panshpèkw
• Navajo: taʼneeskʼání
• Northern Sotho: sespansepeke
• Persian: گرمک (fa) (garmak), طالبی (fa) (tâlebi)
• Polish: kantalupa f
• Portuguese: meloa f, cantalupo m
• Quechua: lakawiti
• Romanian: cantalup (ro) m
• Russian: канталупа (ru) f (kantalúpa), дыня (ru) f (dýnja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: диња f, церовача f, канталупа f

  Roman: dinja f, cerovača f, kantalupa f

• Spanish: cantalupo m