melon

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɛlən/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈmelən/
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• rhymes with -ɛlən
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• CMU ARPABET: M EH1 L AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English meloun, melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).

157 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: пъпешов (pǎpešov) — color
• Greek: πεπονής (peponís) — color
• Greek: πεπονόχρους (peponóchrous) — color
• Ido: melonea — color
• Turkish: kavuniçi — color
• Abkhaz: ашьынка (ašənkʼa) — fruit
• Afrikaans: meloen — fruit
• Albanian: pjepër — fruit
• Arabic: شَمَّام (šammām) — fruit
• Chadian Arabic: شمام (šammām) — fruit
• Chadian Arabic: شماماي (šammāmāy) — fruit
• Arabic: شمام (šammām) — fruit
• Arabic: شهد (šahd) — fruit
• Arabic: خربز (ḵirbiz) — fruit
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܲܛܝܼܚܵܐ (pāṭṭīḳa) — fruit
• Armenian: սեխ — fruit
• Aromanian: piponj — fruit
• Aromanian: peapini — fruit
• Assamese: বাঙী (baṅi) — fruit
• Asturian: melón — fruit
• Azerbaijani: yemiş — fruit
• Azerbaijani: qovun — fruit
• Bashkir: ҡауын (qawın) — fruit
• Belarusian: ды́ня (dýnja) — fruit
• Belarusian: мэлён (meljón) — fruit
• Belarusian: малён (maljón) — fruit
• Bengali: খরবুজ (khorbuz) — fruit
• Bengali: খরমুজ (khormuz) — fruit
• Bengali: তরমুজ (tormuz) — fruit
• Bulgarian: пъ́пеш (pǎ́peš) — fruit
• Burmese: သခွားမသီး (sa.hkwa:ma.si:) — fruit
• Burmese: ဖရုံ (hpa.rum) — fruit
• Catalan: meló — fruit
• Cheyenne: mȧhōō'o — fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 瓜 (gwaa1) — fruit
• Chinese: гуа (gua) — fruit
• Chinese: тянгуа (tiangua) — fruit
• Chinese: 瓜 (koe) — fruit
• Chinese: 瓜仔 (zh-min-nan) — fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 瓜 (guā) — fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 甜瓜 (tiánguā) — fruit
• Coptic: ⲫⲓϧ (phix) — fruit
• Cornish: melon — fruit
• Cornish: pompyon hweg — fruit
• Czech: meloun — fruit
• Danish: melon — fruit
• Dutch: meloen — fruit
• East Frisian Low German: melôon — fruit
• Esperanto: melono — fruit
• Estonian: melon — fruit
• Ewe: aɖiba — fruit
• Faroese: melón — fruit
• Finnish: meloni — fruit
• French: melon — fruit
• North Frisian: Meloon — fruit
• West-Frisian: meloen — fruit
• Galician: melón — fruit
• Georgian: ნესვი (nesvi) — fruit
• German: Melone — fruit
• Greek: πεπόνι (pepóni) — fruit
• Ancient Greek: πέπων (pépōn) — fruit
• Hawaiian: ipu — fruit
• Hebrew: מֶלוֹן (melon) — fruit
• Hindi: मेलन (melan) — fruit
• Hindi: ख़रबूज़ा (xarbūzā) — fruit
• White Hmong: dib — fruit
• Hungarian: dinnye — fruit
• Ido: melono — fruit
• Indonesian: melon — fruit
• Irish: mealbhacán — fruit
• Italian: melone — fruit
• Japanese: メロン (meron) — fruit
• Kazakh: қауын (qauyn) — fruit
• Khmer: ត្រសក់ស្រូវ (trɑsɑk srǝv) — fruit
• Korean: 멜론 (mellon) — fruit
• Korean: 메론 (meron) — fruit
• Korean: 향참외 (hyangchamoe) — fruit
• Central Kurdish: کاڵەک (kallek) — fruit
• Northern Kurdish: gundor — fruit
• Northern Kurdish: petêx — fruit
• Northern Kurdish: qomî — fruit
• Northern Kurdish: qire — fruit
• Northern Kurdish: qawin — fruit
• Kyrgyz: коон (koon) — fruit
• Lao: ແຕງ (tǣng) — fruit
• Latin: pepo — fruit
• Latin: mēlō — fruit
• Latvian: melone — fruit
• Lithuanian: melionas — fruit
• Luxembourgish: Meloun — fruit
• Macedonian: диња (dinja) — fruit
• Macedonian: бостан (bostan) — fruit
• Malay: melon — fruit
• Brunei Malay: batat — fruit
• Malayalam: മത്തങ്ങ (mattaṅṅa) — fruit
• Maltese: bettieħa — fruit
• Māori: kākāriki — fruit
• Māori: meren(g)i — fruit
• Mingrelian: შინკა (šinḳa) — fruit
• Mongolian: амтат гуа (amtat gua) — fruit
• Navajo: taʼneeskʼání — fruit
• Norwegian: melon — fruit
• Occitan: melon — fruit
• Ojibwe: ezaawaanh — fruit
• Ojibwe: eshkandaming — fruit
• Old East Slavic: дꙑнꙗ (dynja) — fruit
• O'odham: miloni — fruit
• Persian: خربزه (xarboze) — fruit
• Polish: melon — fruit
• Portuguese: melão — fruit
• Quechua: milun — fruit
• Romanian: pepene — fruit
• Romanian: pepene galben — fruit
• Russian: ды́ня (dýnja) — fruit
• Sanskrit: खर्बूज (kharbūja) — fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: ди̏ња — fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: dȉnja — fruit
• Sicilian: miluni — fruit
• Sinhalese: කොමඩු (komaḍu) — fruit
• Slovak: melón — fruit
• Slovene: melona — fruit
• Somali: batikh — fruit
• Spanish: melón — fruit
• Swedish: melon — fruit
• Tagalog: milon — fruit
• Tagalog: melon — fruit
• Tajik: харбуза (xarbuza) — fruit
• Tamil: முலாம்பழம் (mulāmpaḻam) — fruit
• Tamil: இன்னீரம் (iṉṉīram) — fruit
• Tatar: кавын (qawın) — fruit
• Telugu: ఖర్బూజాపండు (kharbūjāpaṇḍu) — fruit
• Thai: แตง (dtɛɛng) — fruit
• Tigrinya: ሓብሓብ (ḥabḥab) — fruit
• Turkish: kavun — fruit
• Turkmen: gawun — fruit
• Ukrainian: ди́ня (dýnja) — fruit
• Urdu: خربوزہ (xarbūza) — fruit
• Urdu: میلن (melan) — fruit
• Uyghur: قوغۇن (qoghun) — fruit
• Uzbek: qovun — fruit
• Vietnamese: dưa — fruit
• Yiddish: מעלאָן (melon) — fruit
• French: melon — color
• Greek: πεπονί (peponí) — color
• Bulgarian: цици (cici) — slang: breasts
• Finnish: melonit — slang: breasts
• Finnish: munkit — slang: breasts
• French: melons — slang: breasts
• French: pastèques — slang: breasts
• German: Melonen — slang: breasts
• Greek: πεπόνια (pepónia) — slang: breasts
• Italian: meloni — slang: breasts
• Polish: melony — slang: breasts
• Portuguese: melões — slang: breasts
• Russian: до́йка (dójka) — slang: breasts
• Russian: бу́фер (búfer) — slang: breasts
• Turkish: karpuzlar — slang: breasts