մեղրապոպ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian մեղրապոպ (mełrapop).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /meʁɾɑˈpop/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /meʁɾɑˈbob/,

մեղրապոպ • (meġrapop) (rare, literary)

1. watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (plant and fruit)

   Synonym: ձմերուկ (jmeruk)

From Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), whose first part was confused with μέλι (méli, “honey”) and replaced with մեղր (mełr, “honey”).

մեղրապոպ • (mełrapop)

1. a variety of melon (Cucumis melo), namely perhaps the շամամ (šamam), apple melon (Cucumis melo var. dudaim)

   Hypernym: սեխ (sex)

   • 5th century, Bible, Numbers 11.5:^[1]

     Զի յիշեցաք զձուկնն, զոր ուտէաք յԵգիպտոս ձրի, եւ զսեխն եւ զմեղրապոպ (var. զմեղրապողն, զմեղապոպ) եւ զպրասն եւ զսոխն եւ զխստոր։

     Zi yišecʻakʻ zjuknn, zor utēakʻ yEgiptos jri, ew zsexn ew zmełrapop (var. zmełrapołn, zmełapop) ew zprasn ew zsoxn ew zxstor.

     • Translation by New English Translation of the Septuagint

       We remembered the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, and the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic.

In the Bible, translates Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn).

• → Armenian: մեղրապոպ (meġrapop) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մեղրապոպ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 303ab
• Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “մեղրապոպ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 2047, page 433
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “մեղրապոպ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 250a
• Hiwnkʻearpēyēntean, Yovhannēs (1894) “մեղրապոպ”, in Stugabanakan baṙaran hayocʻ lezui [Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Language]‎ (in Armenian), Constantinople: G. Paġtatlean Press, page 331
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 373
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 926