winter melon

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Etymology 1

Calque of Chinese 冬瓜 (dōngguā).

Noun

Fruits of Benincasa hispida

winter melon (plural winter melons)

1. Benincasa hispida, a species of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) commonly cultivated in Asia.

Synonyms

• ash gourd, ash pumpkin, Chinese preserving melon, fuzzy melon, tallow gourd, wax gourd, white gourd, winter gourd

Translations

Translations

• Assamese: কোমোৰা (kümüra)
• Banjarese: kundur
• Bengali: চালকুমড়া (bn) (calkumṛa)
• Bhojpuri: भतुआ (bhatuā)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: tangkwa (bcl)

• Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံ (my) (kyaukhpa.rum), ကျောက်ဖရုံသီး (kyaukhpa.rumsi:), ကျောက်ဖရုံပင် (kyaukhpa.rumpang)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 冬瓜 (dung¹ gwaa¹), 節瓜 / 节瓜 (zit³ gwaa¹) (smaller variety with fuzzy skin)

  Hokkien: 冬瓜 (zh-min-nan) (tang-koe)

  Mandarin: 冬瓜 (zh) (dōngguā), 節瓜 / 节瓜 (zh) (jiéguā)

• Dutch: waspompoen (nl) m
• Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa (fi)
• French: courge cireuse (fr) f
• German: Wachskürbis m
• Gujarati: ભૂરાકોળું (bhūrākoḷũ)
• Hindi: पेठा (hi) m (peṭhā), सफ़ेद कुम्हड़ा m (safed kumhaṛā)
• Indonesian: beligo (id), baligo, blonceng (id), kundur (id)
• Japanese: 冬瓜 (tōgan)
• Javanese: ꦧ꧀ꦭꦺꦴꦚ꧀ꦕꦺꦁ (blonycéng), ꦧ꧀ꦭꦶꦒꦺꦴ (bligo), ꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦢꦸꦂ (jv) (kondur)
• Kannada: ಬೂದುಗುಂಬಳ (kn) (būdugumbaḷa)
• Khmer: ត្រឡាច (km) (trɑlaac), ផ្លែត្រឡាច (phlaetrɔɔlaac)
• Korean: 동과(冬瓜) (donggwa)
• Malay: kundur (ms)
• Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) (kumpaḷaṁ), കുമ്പളങ്ങ (ml) (kumpaḷaṅṅa)
• Manchu: ᠴᡳᡵᡴᡠ
  ᡥᡝᠩᡴᡝ (cirku hengke)
• Marathi: कोहळा (kohḷā), कोहाळा (kohāḷā), पांढरा भोपळा (pāṇḍhrā bhopḷā)
• Mizo: maipâwl
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: thōitsì

• Nepali: कुभिण्डो (ne) (kubhiṇḍo)
• Okinawan: シブイ
• Punjabi: ਪੇਠਾ (pa) m (peṭhā), ਪੇਠਾ ਕੱਦੂ (peṭhā kaddū)
• Rarotongan: ʻue roro
• Russian: воскова́я ты́ква f (voskovája týkva), зи́мняя ты́ква f (zímnjaja týkva), зи́мняя ды́ня f (zímnjaja dýnja)
• Samoan: fagu
• Sicilian: cucuzza (scn)
• Spanish: calabaza china f, calabaza blanca f
• Sundanese: ᮘᮜᮤᮌᮧ (baligo)
• Tagalog: kundol
• Tahitian: hue ʻaroro
• Tamil: நீற்றுப்பூசணி (nīṟṟuppūcaṇi)
• Telugu: బూడిద గుమ్మడి (te) (būḍida gummaḍi)
• Thai: ฟักเขียว (fák kǐao)
• Tibetan: ཀུབ་དཀར། (kub dkar)
• Tongan: fangu
• Vietnamese: bí đao (vi)
• Zhuang: lwgfaeg

Etymology 2

Calque of French melon d'hiver.

'Amarillo Canario', a cultivar of Spanish melon

Noun

winter melon (plural winter melons)

1. Any late-maturing variety of true melon (Cucumis melo), such as honeydew melon (Inodorus Group), Cassaba melon (Cassaba Group), and Spanish melon (Ibericus Group).

Synonyms

• late melon

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冬甜瓜 (dōngtiánguā)

• French: melon d'hiver m
• German: Wintermelone
• Russian: зи́мняя ды́ня f (zímnjaja dýnja)
• Spanish: melón de invierno m

Etymology 3

Noun

winter melon (plural winter melons)

1. (obsolete) A type of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus).
   • 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets:

     There is also a winter-melon, large and with black seeds, exceedingly cooling, brought us from abroad, and the hotter climates, where they drink water after eating melons...