pattix

Cypriot Arabic

Root
p-t-x
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic بَطِّيخ (baṭṭīḵ).

Noun

pattíx m (collective, singulative pattixa f)

1. watermelons

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 159