قاون

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kagun.

Noun

قاون • (kavun, kavın)

1. melon
2. lemon

   Synonym: لیمون (limon)

Descendants

• Turkish: kavun
• → Arabic: قَاوُون (qāwūn, “bitter melon, cantaloupe”)
  • Kurdish:

    → Northern Kurdish: qawin, qawûn

• → Georgian: ყავუნი (q̇avuni) — Chveneburi
• → Laz: კავონი (ǩavoni)
• → Ukrainian: каву́н (kavún, “watermelon”) (or possibly from Tatar)
  • → Belarusian: каву́н (kavún)
  • → Polish: kawon
  • → Yiddish: קאַווענע (kavene)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3603

Turkmen

Noun

قاون (gawun)

1. Arabic spelling of gawun (“melon”)