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melon

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See also: Melon, melón, Melón, mełon, melɔn, and meˑlon

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛlən/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlən

Etymology 1

From Middle English meloun, melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem (“type of pumpkin”), from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).

Noun

melon (countable and uncountable, plural melons)

  1. (countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
    1. Genus Cucumis, various musk melons, including honeydew, cantaloupes, and horned melon.
    2. Genus Citrullus, watermelons and others
    3. Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
    4. Genus Momordica, a bitter melon
  2. (uncountable) Fruit of such plants.
  3. (uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
    melon:  
  4. (usually in the plural, slang) Breasts.
    • 2013, K. L. Brady, Got a Right to Be Wrong, page 107:
      “Wait a minute.” I said. “James with another woman? Mommy, that doesn't even sound right?” “It's true. I caught him squeezing her melons.”
    • 1958, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin:
      She indicated her left melon, underneath which lay the heart. “Because you stuck with me, and whether you ever said it or not, that is love.”
  5. (countable, slang) The head.
    Think! Use your melon!
  6. (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
  7. (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Japanese: メロン
  • → Korean: 멜론 (mellon)
  • → Welsh: melon
Translations

Adjective

melon

  1. Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

Noun

melon (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.

Anagrams

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish melón (“melon”).

Noun

melon

  1. melon

Danish

Noun

melon c (singular definite melonen, plural indefinite meloner)

  1. melon

Declension

Declension of melon
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative melon melonen meloner melonerne
genitive melons melonens meloners melonernes

Derived terms

References

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Noun

melon

  1. accusative singular of melo

Finnish

Verb

melon

  1. first-person singular present indicative of meloa

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French melon, from Late Latin mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”). More at English melon.

Pronunciation

Noun

melon m (plural melons)

  1. melon (fruit)

Derived terms

Further reading

Indonesian

Noun

melon (first-person possessive melonku, second-person possessive melonmu, third-person possessive melonnya)

  1. melon

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

melon m (definite singular melonen, indefinite plural meloner, definite plural melonene)

  1. melon

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

melon m (definite singular melonen, indefinite plural melonar, definite plural melonane)

  1. melon

References

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin mēlō, mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”).

Noun

melon oblique singular, m (oblique plural melons, nominative singular melons, nominative plural melon)

  1. melon (fruit)
    • 1256, Aldebrandin de Sienne, Rég. du corps
      fera une decoction de violetes, de poumes de semence de cahoides, de melons, de citroles, d'ierbes froides
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

Polish

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melon

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mēlō, mēlōnis, from Ancient Greek μῆλον, μηλοπέπων (mêlon, mēlopépōn).

Pronunciation

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Noun

melon m inan (diminutive melonik)

  1. melon (any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae)
  2. melon (fruit)
  3. (colloquial, humorous) female breast
    Synonym: balon
  4. (colloquial) one million big ones (one million of any currency, especially PLN)
    Synonyms: bańka, duża bańka
  5. (cetology) melon (mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales)

Declension

Declension of melon
singular plural
nominative melon melony
genitive melona melonów
dative melonowi melonom
accusative melon melony
instrumental melonem melonami
locative melonie melonach
vocative melonie melony

Derived terms

adjective
noun
adjective

Further reading

  • melon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • melon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French melon.

Noun

melon n (plural meloane)

  1. bowler hat

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative melon melonul meloane meloanele
genitive-dative melon melonului meloane meloanelor
vocative melonule meloanelor

Swedish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian melone, from Late Latin mēlō, mēlōnem.

Noun

melon c

  1. melon
  2. (slang) melon (breast)
    Schyssta meloner! ― Nice melons!

Declension

Declension of melon
nominative genitive
singular indefinite melon melons
definite melonen melonens
plural indefinite meloner meloners
definite melonerna melonernas

Derived terms

References

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: me‧lon
  • IPA(key): /meˈlon/, [mɛˈlon̪]

Noun

melón (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. Alternative form of milon

Welsh

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English melon.

Pronunciation

Noun

melon m (plural melonau or melons)

  1. melon

Mutation

Mutated forms of melon
radical soft nasal aspirate
melon felon unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “melon”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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