מלפפון
Hebrew (Modern Ashkenazic)
/meˌla.feˈfon/
noun
Definitions
- (Biblical Hebrew) Armenian cucumber, vegetable melon
- cucumber
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (melon), μῆλον (apple, sheep, tree fruit, fruit, lamb, goat) + Ancient Greek πέπων (ripe, large melon, cooked by the sun, ripe cucumber, mellow).
Origin
Ancient Greek
πέπων
Gloss
ripe, large melon, cooked by the sun, ripe cucumber, mellow
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Philomela English
- Philomela Latin
- malus Latin
- melo Latin
- melopeponem Latin
- mēlopepō Latin
- pepo Latin
- peponem, pepo Latin
- pepō Latin
- pepō, peponem, pepo Latin
- philomela Latin
- Θρασύμηλος Ancient Greek
- μήλινος Ancient Greek
- μήλωθρον Ancient Greek
- μηλάτης Ancient Greek
- μηλοκυδώνιον Ancient Greek
- μηλοπέπων Ancient Greek
- μηλοφύλαξ Ancient Greek
- μῆλον Ancient Greek
- πέπων Ancient Greek
- χαμαίμηλον Ancient Greek
- ἁμαμηλίς Ancient Greek
- *meh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pékʷonts, *pékʷeti Proto-Indo-European
- marmelo Portuguese
- μήλο Greek (modern)
- πεπόνιον gkm
- מלפפון Aramaic