מלפפון

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Aramaic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; tree fruit”) +‎ πέπων (pépōn, “cooked by the sun; ripe”).

Pronunciation

Noun

מלפפון • (milpipon) m (plural מִלְפִּפּוֹנַיָא)

  1. muskmelon, melon

Hebrew

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; tree fruit”) +‎ πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).

Pronunciation

Noun

מְלָפְפוֹן • (m'laf'fon) m (plural indefinite מְלָפְפוֹנִים)

  1. (Mishnaic Hebrew) Armenian cucumber, vegetable melon
  2. (vegetable) cucumber

Derived terms

References

  • “mylppwn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–   "a type of melon" (accessed Jan. 2020)
  • Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons p. 775
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press p. 278: "a kind of melon shaped like an apple"
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759226/


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