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:  

Translations

melon

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

  Western Apache: bilóń

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: كنتالوب‎ m (kantalup)

  Gulf Arabic: بطيخ‎ m (baṭṭīḵ)

  Moroccan Arabic: سويهلة‎ f (swīhla), بطيخ‎ (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 (nl) f
• Finnish: 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
• Irish: cantalúp m

• Italian: cantalupo m, zatta (it) f
• Japanese: メロン (ja) (meron)
• Korean: 멜론 (ko) (mellon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گِڕکە‎ (ku) (girrke)

• Lenape: panshpèkw
• Maltese: bettieħ m
• 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

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Finnish

Noun

cantaloupe

1. Synonym of verkkomeloni (“cantaloupe”).

Declension

Inflection of cantaloupe (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		cantaloupe	cantaloupet
genitive		cantaloupen	cantaloupejen
partitive		cantaloupea	cantaloupeja
illative		cantaloupeen	cantaloupeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		cantaloupe	cantaloupet
accusative	nom.	cantaloupe	cantaloupet
	gen.	cantaloupen
genitive		cantaloupen	cantaloupejen cantaloupeinrare
partitive		cantaloupea	cantaloupeja
inessive		cantaloupessa	cantaloupeissa
elative		cantaloupesta	cantaloupeista
illative		cantaloupeen	cantaloupeihin
adessive		cantaloupella	cantaloupeilla
ablative		cantaloupelta	cantaloupeilta
allative		cantaloupelle	cantaloupeille
essive		cantaloupena	cantaloupeina
translative		cantaloupeksi	cantaloupeiksi
instructive		—	cantaloupein
abessive		cantaloupetta	cantaloupeitta
comitative		—	cantaloupeineen

Possessive forms of cantaloupe (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	cantaloupeni	cantaloupemme
2nd person	cantaloupesi	cantaloupenne
3rd person	cantaloupensa