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melon

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?m?l?n/
  • Rhymes: -?l?n

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem (type of pumpkin), from Ancient Greek ????????? (m?lopép?n), from ????? (mêlon, apple) + ????? (pép?n, 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 the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
    2. Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
    3. Genus Benincasa, a winter melon
    4. Genus Momordica, the bitter melon
  2. (uncountable) The fruit of such plants.
  3. (uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
  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.”
  5. (countable, slang) The head.
  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.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • ? Japanese: ???
  • ? Korean: ?? (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

  • mellon

Noun

melon (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

  • Lemon, Menlo, Monel, lemon, nmole

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish melón (melon).

Noun

melon

  1. melon

Danish

Noun

melon c (singular definite melonen, plural indefinite meloner)

  1. melon

Declension

Derived terms

  • honningmelon
  • vandmelon

References

  • “melon” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Noun

melon

  1. accusative singular of melo

Finnish

Verb

melon

  1. First-person singular indicative present form of meloa.

French

Etymology

From Old French melon, from Late Latin m?l?, m?l?nem, shortening of Latin m?lopep?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (m?lopép?n, melon). More at English melon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m?.l??/

Noun

melon m (plural melons)

  1. melon (fruit)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “melon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Noun

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

  1. melon

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

  1. melon

Derived terms

  • vannmelon

References

  • “melon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

  1. melon

References

  • “melon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin m?l?, m?l?nem, shortening of Latin m?lopep?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (m?lopép?n, melon).

Noun

melon 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

Descendants

  • ? Middle Dutch: melone
    • Afrikaans: meloen
    • Dutch: meloen
  • ? Middle English: m??loun, melon, milon
    • ? English: melon
      • ? Japanese: ???
      • ? Korean: ?? (mellon)
      • ? Welsh: melon
  • French: melon

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?m?.l?n/

Noun

melon m inan

  1. melon (fruit)
  2. (colloquial) female breast
  3. (colloquial) one million z?otych
  4. (cetology) melon

Declension

Further reading

  • melon in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
  • melon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French melon

Noun

melon n (plural meloane)

  1. bowler hat

Declension


Swedish

Etymology

From Italian melone, from Late Latin m?l?, m?l?nem.

Noun

melon c

  1. melon

Declension

Derived terms


Welsh

Etymology

From English melon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?m?l?n/

Noun

melon m (plural melonau)

  1. melon

Mutation

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melam

English

Etymology

Compare French mélam.

Noun

melam (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry) A condensation product of melamine, originally found in the residue of heating ammonium thiocyanate.

Related terms

  • melem
  • melon

Anagrams

  • Lemma, lemma

Gothic

Romanization

m?lam

  1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Portuguese

Verb

melam

  1. third-person plural (eles and elas, also used with vocês and others) present indicative of melar

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