מלפפון

Aramaic

Alternative forms

  • מִילְפִּפּוֹן (milpipon)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /milpipon/

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

  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /meˌla.feˈfon/
  • (file)

Noun

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

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