تربز

See also: ثرثر, بربر, and تزبر

Persian

Alternative forms

• تربزه (tarboze), تربوز (tarbuz), تربوزه (tarbuze)

Etymology

Possibly a metathesized and zetacized derivative of Sanskrit त्रपुस (trapusa, “colocynth fruit”) (compare خَربُز).

Noun

Dari	تَربُوز، هِندِوانَه
Iranian Persian	هِندِوانِه، خَربُز
Tajik	тарбуз

تربز • (tarboz) (plural تربزها (tarboz-hâ))

1. (archaic, dialectal or nonstandard) watermelon

   Synonyms: بطیخ هندی (bettix-e hendi), هندوانه (hendevâne)

Descendants

• → Assamese: তৰমুজ (toromuz)
• → Bengali: তরমুজ (toromuj)
• → Gujarati: તરબૂચ (tarbūc), તડબૂચ (taḍbūc)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तरबूज़ (tarbūz)

  Urdu: تربوز (tarbūz)

  • Tamil: தர்பூசணி (tarpūcaṇi)
• → Kalmyk: тарвс (tarvs)
• → Mongolian: тарвас (tarvas)
• → Marathi: टरबूज (ṭarbūj), तरबूज (tarbūj)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਤਰਬੂਜ਼ (tarbūz), ਤਰਬੂਜ (tarbūj)

  Shahmukhi script: تربوز (tarbūz)

• → Old Turkic: [script needed] (*tarbuz)
  • Kyrgyz: дарбыз (darbız)
  • Turkish: karpuz
  • Uyghur: تاۋۇز (tawuz)
  • Uzbek: tarvuz
  • → Russian: арбуз (arbuz), арбу́зъ (arbúz) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Estonian: arbuus
    • → Finnish: arbuusi
    • → Ingrian: arbuza
    • → Latvian: arbūzs
    • → Lithuanian: arbūzas
    • → Polish: arbuz
    • → Volga German: Erbus

References

• 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)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1590