قارپوز

Ottoman Turkish

قارپوز

Alternative forms

• գարփուզ (karpuz) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خربز (xarbuz), variant of خربزه (xarbuza, “melon”).

Noun

قارپوز • (karpuz) (plural قارپوزلر (karpuzlar))

1. watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)

Derived terms

• ایر قارپوزی (eyer karpuzı, “upright projection of a saddle”)
• قارپوز بالغی (karpuz balığı, “sea urchin”)
• قارپوز فنر (karpuz fener, “globular paper lantern”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: karpuz
• → Abkhaz: а-карпы́жә (a-kʼarpʼə́ẑʷ)
• → Adyghe: хъырбыдз (χərbədz)
• → Albanian: karpuz
• → Bulgarian: карпу́за (karpúza)
• → Greek: καρπούζι (karpoúzi)
• → Kabardian: хъарбыз (χarbəz)
• → Ladino: karpus
• → Serbo-Croatian: kàrpuza / ка̀рпуза

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “karpuz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2444
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قارپوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 923
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Anguria”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 62
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قارپوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3578
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karpuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارپوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1412