melon

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

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

melon

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlən/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛlən

Etymology 1

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

Noun

melon (countable and uncountable, plural melons)

1. (countable) Some of the plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
   1. Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
   2. Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
   3. Benincasa hispida, the winter melon
   4. Momordica charantia, the bitter melon
2. (countable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
3. (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.

   melon:  

4. (usually in the plural, slang) The breasts.
   • 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.”

   • 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.”

5. (countable, slang) The head, the brain.

   Think! Use your melon!

6. (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
7. (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:breasts

Hypernyms

• fruit

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

• banana melon
• bittermelon
• chest melon
• Chinese preserving melon
• Christmas melon
• coyote melon
• fodder melon
• fuzzy melon
• Hami melon
• jam melon
• kaffir melon
• Korean melon
• mango melon
• melonade
• melonal
• melon aldehyde
• melon baller
• melon ball scooper
• melon beetle
• melon bread
• melon cactus
• melon cutting
• melonette
• melongrower
• melon head
• melon-headed
• melon-headed whale
• melon heptenal
• melon hole
• melonic
• melonious
• melonist
• melonlike
• melonous
• melonrita
• Melon rugose mosaic virus
• melon thistle
• melontini
• melonworm
• melony
• Montreal melon
• Montreal nutmeg melon
• mouse melon
• Namib melon
• oriental melon
• paddymelon
• pepino melon
• Persian melon
• pineapple melon
• pocket melon
• pomegranate melon
• preserving melon
• Santa Claus melon
• seven-year melon
• snake melon
• snow melon
• stock melon

Descendants

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

Translations

fruit

Abkhaz: ашьынка (ašənkʼa) Afrikaans: meloen Albanian: pjepër (sq) f Arabic: شَمَّام m (šammām) Chadian Arabic: شمام m (šammām) (collective), شماماي f (šammāmāy) (singulative) 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 (qawın) Belarusian: ды́ня f (dýnja), мэлён m (meljón), малён m (maljón) Bengali: খরবুজ (bn) (khorbuz), খরমুজ (bn) (khormuz), তরমুজ (bn) (tormuz) 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) Hokkien: 瓜 (koe), 瓜仔 (zh-min-nan) (koe-á) Mandarin: 瓜 (zh) (guā), 甜瓜 (zh) (tiánguā) Coptic: ⲫⲓϧ m (phix) Cornish: melon m, pompyon hweg m Czech: meloun (cs) m Danish: melon c Dutch: meloen (nl) m or f East Frisian Low Saxon: melôon 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, 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), бостан m (bostan) Malay: melon Malayalam: മത്തങ്ങ (mattaṅṅa) Maltese: bettieħa f Maori: kākāriki (mi), meren(g)i Mingrelian: შინკა (šinḳa) Mongolian: амтат гуа (amtat gua) Navajo: taʼneeskʼání North Frisian: Meloon m or f (Sylt) 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) Tamil: முலாம்பழம் (ta) (mulāmpaḻam), இன்னீரம் (iṉṉīram) Tatar: кавын (tt) (qawın) Telugu: ఖర్బూజాపండు (te) (kharbūjāpaṇḍu) Thai: แตง (th) (dtɛɛng) Tigrinya: ሓብሓብ ? (ḥabḥab) Turkish: kavun (tr) Turkmen: gawun Ukrainian: ди́ня (uk) f (dýnja) Urdu: خربوزہ m (xarbūza), میلن (melan) Uyghur: قوغۇن (qoghun) Uzbek: qovun (uz) Vietnamese: dưa (vi) West Frisian: meloen c White Hmong: dib Yiddish: מעלאָן m (melon)

color

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

melon

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

Translations

color

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

See also

• calabash
• cantaloupe
• casaba
• crenshaw
• melinite
• spanspek
• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

Noun

melon (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of mellon.

Anagrams

• Lemon, Menlo, Monel, lemon, nmole

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish melón (“melon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈlon/, [meˈlõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation: me‧lón

Noun

melón (plural melones)

1. melon

Cornish

Etymology

Borrowed from English melon.

Noun

melon m (plural melonyow)

1. melon

   Synonym: pompyon hweg

Derived terms

• melon dowr (“watermelon”)

Mutation

Mutation of melon

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
melon	velon	unchanged	unchanged	felon	velon

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Danish

Noun

melon c (singular definite melonen, plural indefinite meloner)

1. melon

Declension

Declension of melon

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	melon	melonen	meloner	melonerne
genitive	melons	melonens	meloners	melonernes

Derived terms

• honningmelon
• vandmelon

References

• “melon” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelon/
• Rhymes: -elon
• Hyphenation: me‧lon

Noun

melon

1. accusative singular of melo

Finnish

Verb

melon

1. first-person singular present indicative of meloa

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə.lɔ̃/

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Noun

melon m (plural melons)

1. melon (fruit)

Derived terms

• avoir le melon
• chapeau melon
• melon de France
• melon de Montréal
• melon d'eau

Further reading

• “melon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From English melon, 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”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /məˈlon/ [məˈlon]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: me‧lon

Noun

melon (plural melon-melon)

1. muskmelon; cantaloupe (Cucumis melo subsp. melo)

   Synonym: (rare) kerahi

Derived terms

• tabung melon

Further reading

• “melon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

melon

Wikipedia ^no

Noun

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

1. melon

Derived terms

• vannmelon

References

• “melon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

melon

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Noun

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

1. melon

References

• “melon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. 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

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

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

melon

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mēlōnis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.lɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlɔn
• Syllabification: me‧lon
• Homophone: Melon

Noun

melon m inan (diminutive melonik, related adjective melonowy)

1. melon (any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae)
2. melon (Cucumis melo)

   Synonym: ogórek melon

3. melon (large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants)
4. (colloquial, humorous, chiefly in the plural) huge female breast

   Synonym: balon

5. (colloquial) one million big ones (one million of any currency, especially PLN)

   Synonyms: bańka, duża bańka

6. (cetology) melon (mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations)

Declension

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

nouns

• melonowiec

Related terms

adjectives

• melonowcowaty

Further reading

• melon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• melony in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• melon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• melon in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French melon.

Noun

melon n (plural meloane)

1. bowler hat

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	melon	melonul		meloane	meloanele
genitive-dative	melon	melonului		meloane	meloanelor
vocative	melonule			meloanelor

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

melon

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛlˈuːn/

Noun

melon c

1. melon
2. (slang) melon (breast)

   Schyssta meloner! ― Nice melons!

Declension

Declension of melon

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	melon	melons
	definite	melonen	melonens
plural	indefinite	meloner	meloners
	definite	melonerna	melonernas

Derived terms

• Galiamelon
• honungsmelon
• matmelon
• nätmelon
• sockermelon
• stenmelon
• vattenmelon

References

• melon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• melon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• melon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /meˈlon/ [mɛˈlon̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: me‧lon

Noun

melón (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎᜓᜈ᜔)

1. alternative form of milon

Welsh

Alternative forms

• melwn

Etymology

Borrowed from English melon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlɔn/

Noun

melon m (plural melonau or melons)

1. melon

Mutation

Mutated forms of melon

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
melon	felon	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “melon”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies