pumpkin

English

pumpkins

"seeds of pumpkin"

Alternative forms

• punkin (US, term of endearment)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Middle French pompon, from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Suffixed with the now obsolete -kin. Doublet of pepo.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭmpʹkin, IPA^(key): /ˈpʌmpkɪn/
• Hyphenation: pump‧kin

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Noun

pumpkin (plural pumpkins)

1. A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
2. The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
   • 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz‎^[1]:

     There were pumpkins in Mombi’s corn-fields, lying golden red among the rows of green stalks; and these had been planted and carefully tended that the four-horned cow might eat of them in the winter time.

3. (uncountable) The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.

   pumpkin:  

4. (Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
5. (US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
   • 1991, John Prine, Pat McLaughlin (lyrics and music), “Daddy’s Little Pumpkin”, in The Missing Years (album):

     You must be daddy’s little pumpkin.

Derived terms

• pumpkineer
• pumpking
• pumpkinification
• pumpkinless
• pumpkin pie
• pumpkinseed

 

Translations

plant

• Achuar: yuwi
• Adyghe: алыркъэб (alərqɛb)
• Afrikaans: pampoen (af)
• Alabama: choksi
• Albanian: kungull (sq) m
• Arabic: قَرْع m (qarʕ), يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn), دُبَاء f (dubāʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: قرع m (ʾarʕ) (collective), قرعة f (ʾarʕa) (singulative)

  Gulf Arabic: يَقْطِين (jɐgtˤin)

  Hijazi Arabic: يَقْطِين m pl (yagṭīn)

• Armenian: դդում (hy) (ddum)
• Aromanian: curcubetã f
• Assamese: ৰঙালাও গছ (roṅalaü gos)
• Asturian: calabaza (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: balqabaq (az), qabaq (az), kudu
• Bashkir: ҡабаҡ (qabaq)
• Belarusian: гарбу́з m (harbúz)
• Bengali: কুমড়া (kumṛa)
• Breton: koulourdrenn
• Bulgarian: ти́ква (bg) f (tíkva)
• Burmese: ရွှေဖရုံပင် (hrwehpa.rumpang)
• Catalan: carbassera (ca) f, carabassera f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 南瓜 (naam⁴ gwaa¹), 番瓜 (faan¹ gwaa¹)

  Mandarin: 南瓜 (zh) (nánguā)

• Czech: dýně (cs) f
• Danish: græskar, græskarplante
• Dutch: pompoen (nl) f
• Esperanto: kukurbo
• Estonian: kõrvits
• Faroese: grasker n, graskar n
• Finnish: kurpitsa (fi)
• French: citrouille (fr) f
• Galician: cabaza (gl) f, cabazo m, cabaceira f
• Georgian: გოგრა (gogra), კვახი (ḳvaxi)
• German: Kürbis (de) m, Kürbispflanze f
• Greek: κολοκύθα (el) (kolokýtha)
• Gujarati: કોળું n (koḷũ)
• Hebrew: דְּלַעַת (he) f (dla'át)
• Hiligaynon: kalabasa
• Hindi: कुम्हड़ा (kumhaṛā), कोंहड़ा m (kõhṛā), कद्दू (hi) m (kaddū), कदू m (kadū)
• Hungarian: tök (hu)
• Icelandic: grasker (is) n
• Indonesian: labu (id)
• Irish: puimcín m
• Italian: zucca (it) f
• Japanese: 南瓜 (ja) (かぼちゃ, kabocha), カボチャ (ja) (kabocha)
• Kazakh: асқабақ (asqabaq)
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• Khmer: ល្ពៅ (km) (lpɨv)
• Korean: 호박 (ko) (hobak)
• Kyrgyz: ашкабак (ky) (aşkabak)
• Lao: ໝາກອຶ (lo) (māk ʼư)
• Latvian: ķirbis m
• Lithuanian: moliūgas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Kalbass (lb) f, Kürbis (lb) m
• Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦗᧅ (ṁaakpak)
• Macedonian: ти́ква f (tíkva)
• Maltese: qargħa ħamra
• Mongolian: хулуу (mn) (xuluu)
• Nahuatl: caxtīllān tlālayōhtli
• Norman: m'lon m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gresskar n

  Nynorsk: graskar n

• O'odham: ha꞉l/hahl
• Panamint: katapasattsi
• Persian: کدو حلوایی (kadu-halvâyi)
• Polish: dynia (pl) f
• Portuguese: abóbora (pt) f, jerimum (pt) m, aboboreira (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: bostan (ro) m, dovleac (ro) m
• Russian: ты́ква (ru) f (týkva)
• Sanskrit: कुष्माण्ड (sa) m (kuṣmāṇḍa)
• Scottish Gaelic: peapag f, puimcean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: буча f, бундева f, тиква f

  Roman: buča (sh) f, bundeva (sh) f, tikva (sh) f

• Slovak: tekvica f
• Slovene: buča (sl) f
• Sotho: mokopu
• Spanish: calabaza (es) f, calabazera f
• Sundanese: waluh
• Swahili: malenge (sw), boga, maboga
• Swedish: pumpa (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalabasa
• Tajik: каду (tg) (kadu)
• Taos: póna
• Tatar: кабак (tt) (qabaq)
• Thai: ฟักทอง (th) (fák-tɔɔng)
• Turkish: bal kabağı (tr), kabak (tr)
• Turkmen: kädi
• Ukrainian: гарбу́з (uk) m (harbúz)
• Uzbek: qovoq (uz), oshqovoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: bí ngô, bí đỏ
• Volapük: zukad
• Walloon: cahoûde
• Welsh: pwmpen (cy)
• West Frisian: klabats c
• Yiddish: דיניע f (dinye)

fruit of this plant

• Abenaki: wasawa
• Afrikaans: pampoen (af)
• Alabama: choksi
• Albanian: kungull (sq) m
• Arabic: قَرْع m (qarʕ), يَقْطِين (yaqṭīn), دُبَاء f (dubāʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: قرع m pl (ʾarʿ)

  Hijazi Arabic: يَقْطِين m pl (yagṭīn)

• Armenian: դդում (hy) (ddum)
• Aromanian: curcubetã f
• Assamese: ৰঙালাও (roṅalaü)
• Asturian: calabaza (ast) f
• Atikamekw: akosamin
• Azerbaijani: balqabaq (az)
• Bashkir: ҡабаҡ (qabaq)
• Belarusian: гарбу́з m (harbúz)
• Bulgarian: ти́ква (bg) f (tíkva)
• Burmese: ရွှေဖရုံသီး (my) (hrwehpa.rumsi:), ဖရုံ (my) (hpa.rum)
• Catalan: carbassa (ca) f, carabassa (ca) f
• Catawba: watab
• Central Dusun: tawadak
• Cherokee: ᎢᏯ (iya)
• Chichewa: dzungu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 南瓜 (naam⁴ gwaa¹), 番瓜 (faan¹ gwaa¹)

  Mandarin: 南瓜 (zh) (nánguā)

  Min Nan: 朱瓜 (chu-koe), 金瓜 (zh-min-nan) (kim-koe)

• Cree: osawipak (osawipak)
• Czech: dýně (cs) f
• Danish: græskar
• Dhivehi: ބަރަބޯ (barabō)
• Dutch: pompoen (nl) f
• Esperanto: kukurbo
• Estonian: kõrvits
• Faroese: grasker n, graskar n
• Finnish: kurpitsa (fi), pallokurpitsa
• French: citrouille (fr) f, potiron (fr) m (informally used interchangeably with "citrouille")
• Friulian: çucje f, čučhe f
• Galician: cabaza (gl) f, cabazo m
• Georgian: გოგრა (gogra), კვახი (ḳvaxi)
• German: Kürbis (de) m, Kürbisfrucht f
• Greek: κολοκύθα (el) f (kolokýtha)

  Ancient: κολοκύνθη f (kolokúnthē)

• Gujarati: કોળું n (koḷũ)
• Hebrew: דְּלַעַת (he) f (dla'át)
• Hiligaynon: kalabasa
• Hindi: कद्दू (hi) m (kaddū), कदू m (kadū), कुम्हड़ा m (kumhaṛā), कोंहड़ा m (kõhṛā)
• Hungarian: tök (hu)
• Icelandic: grasker (is) n
• Irish: puimcín m
• Italian: zucca (it) f
• Japanese: 南瓜 (ja) (かぼちゃ, kabocha), カボチャ (ja) (kabocha)
• Kazakh: асқабақ (asqabaq)
• Khmer: ល្ពៅ (km) (lpɨv)
• Kyrgyz: ашкабак (ky) (aşkabak)
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• Lakota: wagmu
• Lao: ໝາກອຶ (lo) (māk ʼư)
• Latvian: ķirbis m
• Lithuanian: moliūgas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Kalbass (lb) f, Kürbis (lb) m
• Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦗᧅ (ṁaakpak)
• Macedonian: ти́ква f (tíkva)
• Malay: labu
• Marathi: भोपळा m (bhopḷā)
• Mongolian: хулуу (mn) (xuluu)
• Navajo: naayízíłtsooí
• Norman: m'lon m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gresskar n

  Nynorsk: graskar n

• Panamint: katapasattsi
• Persian: کدو تنبل (fa) (kadu tanbal)
• Polish: dynia (pl) f
• Portuguese: abóbora (pt) f, jerimum (pt) m (Brazil)
• Quechua: sapallu
• Romanian: dovleac (ro), bostan (ro) m
• Romansch: zitga f, zetga, zücha, zucca
• Russian: ты́ква (ru) f (týkva)
• Sanskrit: कुष्माण्ड (sa) m (kuṣmāṇḍa)
• Sardinian: cocorfica f, cocorvica, corcoriga, colcorija, curcufica, crocoriga, curcuvica, corcovriga, corcuica, crucuriga, culcurija, tzoca f, tzuca
• Scottish Gaelic: peapag f, puimcean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: буча f, бундева f, тиква f

  Roman: buča (sh) f, bundeva (sh) f, tikva (sh) f

• Sicilian: cucuzza (scn) f, cucùzza f
• Slovak: tekvica f
• Slovene: buča (sl) f
• Sotho: mokopu
• Spanish: calabaza (es) f, auyama (es) f (Colombia, Venezuela, Dominican Republic), ayote (es) f (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala), zapallo (es) m (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Southwestern Colombia, Uruguay)
• Swahili: malenge (sw), boga
• Swedish: pumpa (sv) c, kurbits (sv)
• Tagalog: kalabasa
• Tajik: каду (tg) (kadu)
• Tatar: кабак (tt) (qabaq)
• Thai: ฟักทอง (th) (fák-tɔɔng)
• Turkish: bal kabağı (tr)
• Turkmen: kädi
• Ukrainian: гарбу́з (uk) m (harbúz)
• Unami: kaxeya, kèskùnthàkw
• Urdu: کدو m (kadū, kaddū)
• Uzbek: qovoq (uz), oshqovoq (uz)
• Venetian: suca (vec), zhuca, zuca, çuca, cucucìa
• Vietnamese: bí ngô, bí đỏ
• Walloon: peturon (wa) m
• Welsh: pwmpen (cy)
• West Frisian: klabats c
• Yiddish: דיניע f (dinye)

color

• Finnish: kurpitsa (fi)
• French: citrouille (fr) m or f
• German: Kürbisfarbe f, Kürbisfarben f pl (frequently used in plural)
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• Hebrew: דְּלַעַת (he) f (dla'át)
• Polish: dyniowy (pl)
• Portuguese: abóbora (pt), cor de abóbora
• Swahili: malenge (sw)

term of endearment

• Finnish: nuppu (fi)
• German: Kürbis (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: sötnos (sv) c, smulan (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} kungull (sq)
• Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} andai (1)
• Interlingua: (1,2,3) ^{(please verify)} cucurbita
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} മത്തങ്ങ (mattaṅṅa)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maricopa: ^{(please verify)} xmat
• O'odham: ^{(please verify)} ha꞉l
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} dovleac (ro) m, ^{(please verify)} bostan (ro) m

See also

• calabash
• calabaza
• gourd
• marrow
• squash