winter melon

winter melon

English

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 冬瓜 (dōngguā).

Noun

winter melon (plural winter melons)

1. A vine of the species Benincasa hispida cultivated throughout Asia.
2. A green, fuzzy melon fruit with sweet white flesh, which grows on this vine.

Nearly mature winter melon

Synonyms

• (Benincasa hispida): ash gourd, fuzzy melon, wax gourd, white gourd

Translations

vine

Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံ (my) (kyaukhpa.rum), ကျောက်ဖရုံပင် (kyaukhpa.rumpang) Chinese: Mandarin: 冬瓜藤 (dōngguāténg) Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa (fi) Khmer: ត្រឡាច (km) (trɑlaac) Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) (kumpaḷaṃ) Russian: please add this translation if you can Tagalog: kundol

fuzzy melon fruit

Assamese: কোমোৰা (kümüra) Banjarese: kundur Bengali: চালকুমড়া (calôkumôṛa) Bhojpuri: भतुआ (bhatuā) Bikol Central: tangkwa (bcl) Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံ (my) (kyaukhpa.rum), ကျောက်ဖရုံသီး (kyaukhpa.rumsi:) Chinese: Cantonese: 冬瓜 (dung1 gwaa1), 節瓜, 节瓜 (zit3 gwaa1) (smaller variety with fuzzy skin) Mandarin: 冬瓜 (zh) (dōngguā), 節瓜／节瓜 (zh) (jiéguā) Min Nan: 冬瓜 (zh-min-nan) (tang-koe) Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa (fi) French: courge cireuse (fr) f German: Wachskürbis m Gujarati: ભૂરાકોળું (bhūrākoḷũ) Hindi: पेठा (hi) (peṭhā), सफ़ेद कुम्हड़ा (safed kumhaṛā) Indonesian: beligo (id), baligo, blonceng, kundur (id) Japanese: トウガン (tōgan) Javanese: ꦧ꧀ꦭꦺꦴꦚ꧀ꦕꦺꦁ (blonycéng), ꦧ꧀ꦭꦶꦒꦺꦴ (bligo), ꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦢꦸꦂ (jv) (kondur) Kannada: ಬೂದುಗುಂಬಳ (kn) (būdugumbaḷa) Khmer: ផ្លែត្រឡាច (phlaetrɔɔlaac) Korean: 동과(冬瓜) (donggwa) Malay: kundur Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) (kumpaḷaṃ), കുമ്പളങ്ങ (ml) (kumpaḷaṅṅa) Manchu: ᠴᡳᡵᡴᡠ ᡥᡝᠩᡴᡝ (cirku hengke) Marathi: कोहळा (kohḷā), कोहाळा (kohāḷā), पांढरा भोपळा (pāṇḍhrā bhopḷā) Nepali: कुभिण्डो (ne) (kubhiṇḍo) Punjabi: ਪੇਠਾ (pa) m (peṭhā), ਪੇਠਾ ਕੱਦੂ (peṭhā kaddū) Russian: воскова́я ты́ква f (voskovája týkva), зи́мняя ты́ква f (zímnjaja týkva), зи́мняя ды́ня f (zímnjaja dýnja) Sicilian: cucuzza (scn) Sundanese: ᮘᮜᮤᮌᮧ (baligo) Tagalog: kundol Tamil: நீற்றுப்பூசணி (nīṟṟuppūcaṇi) Telugu: బూడిద గుమ్మడి (te) (būḍida gummaḍi) Tibetan: ཀུབ་དཀར། (kub dkar) Vietnamese: bí đao Zhuang: lwgfaeg

See also

• gourd

References

• winter melon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Benincasa hispida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Benincasa hispida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons