melon

See also: Melon, melón, Melón, mełon, melɔn, and meˑlon

English[edit]

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melon

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Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlən/
Audio (US) (file)
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Rhymes: -ɛlən

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English meloun, melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem (“type of pumpkin”), from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).

Noun[edit]

melon (countable and uncountable, plural melons)

(countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
1. Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including honeydew, cantaloupes, and horned melon.
2. Genus Citrullus, watermelons and others
3. Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
4. Genus Momordica, a bitter melon
(uncountable) Fruit of such plants.
(uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
melon:
(usually in the plural, slang) Breasts.
- 2013, K. L. Brady, Got a Right to Be Wrong, page 107:
  “Wait a minute.” I said. “James with another woman? Mommy, that doesn't even sound right?” “It's true. I caught him squeezing her melons.”
- 1958, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin:
  She indicated her left melon, underneath which lay the heart. “Because you stuck with me, and whether you ever said it or not, that is love.”
(countable, slang) The head.
Think! Use your melon!
(countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
(countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.

Hypernyms[edit]

fruit

Hyponyms[edit]

cantaloupe, citron melon, honeydew, honeydew melon, muskmelon (musk melon), citron melon, Persian melon, rockmelon, watermelon, winter melon

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

→ Japanese: メロン
→ Korean: 멜론 (mellon)
→ Welsh: melon

Translations[edit]

fruit

Abkhaz: ашьынка (ašənkʼa)
Afrikaans: meloen
Albanian: pjepër (sq) f
Arabic: شَمَّام‎ m (šammām)
Egyptian Arabic: شمام‎ m (šammām), شهد‎ m (šahd)

Hijazi Arabic: خربز‎ m (ḵirbiz)
Armenian: սեխ (hy) (sex) (Cucumis melo)
Aromanian: piponj m, peapini m
Assamese: বাঙী (baṅi)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܲܛܝܼܚܵܐ‎ m (pāṭṭīḳa)
Asturian: melón (ast) m
Azerbaijani: yemiş (az), qovun (az)
Bashkir: ҡауын (qavın)
Belarusian: ды́ня f (dýnja), мэлён m (meljón), малён m (maljón)
Bengali: খরবুজা (khorbuza), খরমুজা (khormuza)
Brunei Malay: batat
Bulgarian: пъ́пеш (bg) m (pǎ́peš)
Burmese: သခွားမသီး (my) (sa.hkwa:ma.si:) (musk melon), ဖရုံ (my) (hpa.rum) (white gourd melon)
Catalan: meló (ca) m
Cheyenne: mȧhōō'o
Chinese:
Cantonese: 瓜 (gwaa¹)

Dungan: гуа (gua), тянгуа (ti͡angua)

Mandarin: 瓜 (zh) (guā), 甜瓜 (zh) (tiánguā)

Min Nan: 瓜 (koe), 瓜仔 (zh-min-nan) (koe-á)
Coptic: ⲫⲓϧ m (phix)
Czech: meloun (cs) m
Danish: melon c
Dutch: meloen (nl) m or f
Esperanto: melono
Estonian: melon (et)
Ewe: aɖiba n
Faroese: melón f
Finnish: meloni (fi)
French: melon (fr) m
Galician: melón (gl) m
Georgian: ნესვი (nesvi)
German: Melone (de) f
Greek: πεπόνι (el) n (pepóni)
Ancient: πέπων m (pépōn)
Hawaiian: ipu
Hebrew: מֶלוֹן‎ (he) m (melon)
Hindi: मेलन (hi) ? (melan), ख़रबूज़ा (hi) m (xarbūzā)
Hungarian: dinnye (hu)
Ido: melono (io)
Indonesian: melon (id)
Irish: mealbhacán m
Italian: melone (it) m
Japanese: メロン (ja) (meron)
Kazakh: қауын (kk) (qauyn)
Khmer: ត្រសក់ស្រូវ (trɑsɑk srǝv)
Korean: 멜론 (ko) (mellon) (South Korean), 메론 (meron) (South Korean), 향참외 (ko) (hyangchamoe) (North Korean)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کاڵەک‎ (ckb) (kallek)

Northern Kurdish: gundor (ku) m, petêx (ku) m, xerûze (ku) m, qomî (ku) m, qire (ku) m, qawin (ku) m
Kyrgyz: коон (ky) (koon)
Lao: ແຕງ (tǣng)
Latin: pepo m, mēlō m
Latvian: melone f
Lithuanian: melionas m
Luxembourgish: Meloun f
Macedonian: диња (mk) f (dinja)
Malay: melon
Malayalam: മത്തങ്ങ (mattaṅṅa)
Maltese: bettieħa f
Maori: kākāriki (mi), merengi
Mingrelian: შინკა (šinḳa)
Mongolian: амтат гуа (amtat gua)
Navajo: taʼneeskʼání
Norwegian: melon (no)
O'odham: miloni
Occitan: melon (oc)
Ojibwe: ezaawaanh, eshkandaming
Old East Slavic: дꙑнꙗ f (dynja)
Persian: خربزه‎ (fa) (xarboze)
Polish: melon (pl) m
Portuguese: melão (pt) m
Quechua: milun
Romanian: pepene (ro), pepene galben (ro)
Russian: ды́ня (ru) f (dýnja)
Sanskrit: खर्बूज (sa) m (kharbūja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ди̏ња f

Roman: dȉnja (sh) f
Sicilian: miluni (scn) m
Sinhalese: කොමඩු ? (komaḍu)
Slovak: melón (sk) m
Slovene: melona (sl) f
Somali: batikh ?
Spanish: melón (es) m
Swedish: melon (sv) c
Tagalog: milon, melon
Tajik: харбуза (tg) (xarbuza)
Tatar: кавын (tt) (qawın)
Telugu: ఖర్బూజాపండు (te) (kharbūjāpaṇḍu)
Thai: แตง (th) (dtɛɛng)
Tigrinya: ሓብሓብ ? (ḥabḥab)
Turkish: kavun (tr)
Turkmen: gawun
Ukrainian: ди́ня f (dýnja)
Urdu: خربوزہ‎ m (xarbūza), میلن‎ (melan)
Uyghur: قوغۇن‎ (qoghun)
Uzbek: qovun (uz)
Vietnamese: dưa tây
White Hmong: dib
Yiddish: מעלאָן‎ m (melon)

colour

French: melon (fr) m or f
Greek: πεπονί n (peponí)
Turkish: kavuniçi (tr)

slang: breasts

Bulgarian: цици (bg) f pl (cici)
Finnish: melonit (fi) pl, munkit (fi) pl
French: melons (fr) m pl, pastèques (fr) f pl
German: Melonen (de) pl or f
Greek: πεπόνια (el) n pl (pepónia)
Italian: meloni (it) pl
Polish: melony m pl
Portuguese: melões (pt) m pl
Russian: до́йка (ru) f (dójka), бу́фер (ru) m (búfer)
Turkish: karpuzlar pl

Adjective[edit]

melon

Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.

Translations[edit]

colour

Bulgarian: пъпешов (pǎpešov)
Greek: πεπονής (peponís), πεπονόχρους (peponóchrous)
Ido: melonea
Turkish: kavuniçi (tr)

Etymology 2[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms[edit]

mellon

Noun[edit]

melon (uncountable)

(chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

Anagrams[edit]

Lemon, Menlo, Monel, lemon, nmole

Chavacano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish melón (“melon”).

Noun[edit]

melon

melon

Danish[edit]

Noun[edit]

melon c (singular definite melonen, plural indefinite meloner)

melon

Declension[edit]

Declension of melon

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	melon	melonen	meloner	melonerne
genitive	melons	melonens	meloners	melonernes

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

“melon” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈmelon]
Rhymes: -elon
Hyphenation: me‧lon

Noun[edit]

melon

accusative singular of melo

Finnish[edit]

Verb[edit]

melon

first-person singular present indicative of meloa

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”). More at English melon.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /mə.lɔ̃/
Audio (file)

Noun[edit]

melon m (plural melons)

melon (fruit)

Derived terms[edit]

Indonesian[edit]

Noun[edit]

melon (first-person possessive melonku, second-person possessive melonmu, third-person possessive melonnya)

melon

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

melon

Wikipedia ^no

Noun[edit]

melon m (definite singular melonen, indefinite plural meloner, definite plural melonene)

melon

Derived terms[edit]

vannmelon

References[edit]

“melon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

melon

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Noun[edit]

melon m (definite singular melonen, indefinite plural melonar, definite plural melonane)

melon

References[edit]

“melon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin mēlō, mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”).

Noun[edit]

melon m (oblique plural melons, nominative singular melons, nominative plural melon)

melon (fruit)
- 1256, Aldebrandin de Sienne, Rég. du corps
  fera une decoction de violetes, de poumes de semence de cahoides, de melons, de citroles, d'ierbes froides
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants[edit]

→ Middle Dutch: melone
- Afrikaans: meloen
- Dutch: meloen
→ Middle English: mē̆loun, melon, milon
- → English: melon, mellon
  - → Japanese: メロン
  - → Korean: 멜론 (mellon)
  - → Welsh: melon
French: melon

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

melon

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin mēlō, mēlōnis, from Ancient Greek μῆλον, μηλοπέπων (mêlon, mēlopépōn).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.lɔn/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɛlɔn
Syllabification: me‧lon
Homophone: Melon

Noun[edit]

melon m inan (diminutive melonik)

melon (any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae)
melon (fruit)
(colloquial, humorous) female breast
Synonym: balon
(colloquial) one million big ones (one million of any currency, especially PLN)
Synonyms: bańka, duża bańka
(cetology) melon (mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales)

Declension[edit]

Declension of melon

	singular	plural
nominative	melon	melony
genitive	melona	melonów
dative	melonowi	melonom
accusative	melon	melony
instrumental	melonem	melonami
locative	melonie	melonach
vocative	melonie	melony

Derived terms[edit]

adjective

melonowy

noun

melonowiec

Related terms[edit]

adjective

melonowcowaty

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French melon.

Noun[edit]

melon n (plural meloane)

bowler hat

Declension[edit]

Declension of melon

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) melon	melonul	(niște) meloane	meloanele
genitive/dative	(unui) melon	melonului	(unor) meloane	meloanelor
vocative	melonule		meloanelor

Swedish[edit]

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

melon

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian melone, from Late Latin mēlō, mēlōnem.

Noun[edit]

melon c

melon
(slang) melon (breast)
Schyssta meloner! ― Nice melons!

Declension[edit]

Declension of melon
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	melon	melonen	meloner	melonerna
Genitive	melons	melonens	meloners	melonernas

Derived terms[edit]

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Welsh[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

melwn

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English melon.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlɔn/

Noun[edit]

melon m (plural melonau or melons)

melon

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
melon	felon	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

melon

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