خربزه

PersianEdit

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خربزه‎

Alternative formsEdit

خربز‎ (xarboz), خربوزه‎ (xarbuze), خربیزه‎ (xarbize) (dialectal)

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hlbyck' /xarbīzag/, “watermelon”). According to Horn, the latter is formed as 𐮴𐮹‎ (xar, “ass, donkey”) +‎ 𐮱𐮵𐮿𐮵𐮰‎ (bwcnʾ /bōzīnʾ/, “cucumber; citron”). The first part is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kʰáras; for the second part, it 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: ‎ (tarboze), ‎ (tarboz, “watermelon”).

Akin to Middle Armenian խարպիզակ (xarpizak), խարբզակ (xarbzak), Georgian ხაბურზაკი (xaburzaḳi), ხარბუზაკი (xarbuzaḳi), Iranian borrowings.

PronunciationEdit

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xaɾbuza/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /xaɾbʊza/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /xæɾboze/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /xaɾbuza/

NounEdit

Iranian Persian	خربزه
Dari	خربزه
Tajik	харбуза (xarbuza)

خربزه • (xarboze) (plural خربزه‌ها‎ (xarboze-hâ))

melon

DescendantsEdit

→ Abaza: харбыз (xarbəz)
→ Adyghe: къэпраз (qepraaz)
→ Arabic: خِرْبِز‎ (ḵirbiz, “honeydew melon”)
→ Chechen: хорбаз (xorbaz)
→ Hindustani:
- → Urdu: خربوزہ‎ (xarbūzā)
- → Hindi: ख़रबूज़ा (xarbūzā)
→ Ingush: харбаз (xarbaz)
→ Kabardian: хъарбыз (χaarbəz)
→ Ossetian: харбыз (xarbyz)
→ Ottoman Turkish: خربز‎ (harbüz), خربزه‎ (harbüze)
- → Old East Slavic: арбузъ (arbuzŭ)
  - Russian: арбу́з (arbúz)
    - → Buryat: арбуз (arbuz)
    - → Estonian: arbuus
    - → Latvian: arbūzs
    - → Lithuanian: arbūzas
    - → Polish: arbuz
    - → Volga German: Erbus
- → Ukrainian: гарбу́з (harbúz, “pumpkin”)
  - → Belarusian: гарбу́з (harbúz)
  - → Latgalian: garbuzs, Latgalian: garbūzs
  - → Polish: harbuz
  - → Romanian: harbuz
→ Turkic: (taking Persian as representative for all Iranian)
- Azerbaijani: qarpız
  - → Persian: قارپوز‎ (qârpuz)
- Bashkir: ҡарбуз (qarbuz)
- Crimean Tatar: qarpız
- Karachay-Balkar: харбыз (xarbız)
- Kazakh: қарбыз (qarbyz)
- Kipchak: قربز‎ (karbız)
- Ottoman Turkish: قارپوز‎ (karpuz)
  - Turkish: karpuz
  - → Abkhaz: а-карпы́жә (a-kʼarpʼə́ẑʷ)
  - → Adyghe: хъырбыдз (χərbədz)
  - → Albanian: karpuz
  - → Bulgarian: карпу́за (karpúza)
  - → Greek: καρπούζι (karpoúzi)
  - → Kabardian: хъарбыз (χaarbəz)
  - → Ladino: karpus
  - → Serbo-Croatian: kàrpuza / ка̀рпуза
- Tatar: карбыз (qarbız)
- Turkmen: garpyz
→ Sanskrit: खर्बूज (kharbūja)

ReferencesEdit

Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “խարպիզակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, 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)‎^[1] (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 Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress