Aramaic edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Hebrew אבטיח ('avaṭíaḥ).

Noun edit

אבטיחא (transliteration neededm (plural אבטיחיא)

  1. watermelon

References edit

  • Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons