cantaloupe

English

Alternative forms

• cantaloup, cantalope

Etymology

From French cantaloup, 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.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

cantaloupe (plural cantaloupes)

1. A melon of species Cucumis melo subsp. melo with sweet orange flesh, with numerous cultivars in several cultivar groups.
   1. (Britain, Ireland) Smooth-skinned, also known as true cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and also grown in Europe. [From 1739.]
   2. (Australia, US) Having a rough skin resembling netting; also known as muskmelon or rockmelon.
2. An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.

   cantaloupe colour:  

Translations

melon

• Afrikaans: spanspek (af)
• Albanian: pjepër (sq)
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: كنتالوب‎ m (kantalup)

  Gulf Arabic: بطيخ‎ m (baṭṭīḵ)

• Aromanian: piponj
• Assamese: বাঙী (baṅi), চিৰাল (siral)
• Bulgarian: канталуп m (kantalup)
• Catalan: meló cantalup m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 皺皮瓜, 皱皮瓜 (caau⁴pei⁴gwaa¹), 香瓜 (hoeng¹gwaa¹)

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

• Danish: kantalup
• Dutch: kantaloep f, kanteloep f
• Finnish: cantaloupe (fi), verkkomeloni
• French: cantaloup (fr)
• Georgian: ნესვი (nesvi), დასტამბო (dasṭambo)
• German: Kantalupe
• Greek: πεπόνι (el) n (pepóni)
• Hungarian: sárgadinnye (hu)
• Icelandic: kantalúpmelóna f, cantaloup-melóna f
• Italian: cantalupo m, zatta (it) f

• Japanese: メロン (ja) (meron)
• Korean: 멜론 (ko) (mellon)
• Lenape: panshpèkw
• Maori: kākāriki
• 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: канталу́па (ru) f (kantalúpa), ды́ня (ru) f (dýnja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: диња f, церовача f, канталупа f

  Roman: dinja (sh) f, cerovača (sh) f, kantalupa (sh) f

• Slovene: melona (sl) f
• Spanish: cantalupo m
• Swedish: cantaloupe (sv), nätmelon (sv) c
• Tagalog: melong bato, kantalupo
• Thai: แคนตาลูป (kɛɛn-dtaa-lúup)
• Yiddish: דינקע‎ f (dinke)

Further reading

• cantaloupe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia