Etymology
From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlbyck' /xarbīzag/, “watermelon”), of unclear origin:
- According to Horn, the latter is formed as (xar, “ass, donkey”) + (bwcnʾ /bōzīnʾ/, “cucumber; citron”). The first part is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kʰáras, and the second part is probably related to Proto-Semitic *būṣ-. However, this is considered a folk etymology by Nişanyan.
- According to Pelliot, a reshaping of Sanskrit त्रपुस (trapusa, “the fruit of colocynth”) by popular etymology.
Forms with t- are attested in Persian: تربزه (tarboze), تربز (tarboz, “watermelon”). Akin to Middle Armenian խարպիզակ (xarpizak), խարբզակ (xarbzak), Georgian ხაბურზაკი (xaburzaḳi), ხარბუზაკი (xarbuzaḳi), Iranian borrowings.
Pronunciation
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خَربُزِه • (xarboze) (plural خربزهها (xarboze-hâ))
- (Iran or nonstandard) melon
- Synonym: بطیخ (batix)
Descendants
- → Abaza: харбыз (xarbəz)
- → Adyghe: къэпраз (qɛpraz)
- → Arabic: خِرْبِز (ḵirbiz, “honeydew melon”)
- → Chechen: хорбаз (xorbaz)
- → Gujarati: ખરભુજા (kharbhujā), ખરબૂજા (kharbūjā)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: ख़रबूज़ा (xarbūzā)
- Urdu: خربوزہ (xarbūzā)
- → Ingush: харбаз (xarbaz)
- → Kabardian: хъарбыз (χarbəz)
- → Ossetian: харбыз (xarbyz)
- → Ottoman Turkish: خربز (harbüz), خربزه (harbüze)
- → Old East Slavic: арбузъ (arbuzŭ)
- → Ukrainian: гарбу́з (harbúz, “pumpkin”)
- → Belarusian: гарбу́з (harbúz)
- → Latgalian: garbuzs, Latgalian: garbūzs
- → Polish: harbuz
- → Romanian: harbuz
- → Turkic: (taking Persian as representative for all Iranian)
- → Sanskrit: खर्बूज (kharbūja)
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “խարպիզակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 348b
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20) (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1590
- Horn, Paul (1893) “xerbuze”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 105
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karpuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “арбуз”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress