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/
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/
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Noun
מְלָפְפוֹן • (m'laf'fon) m (plural indefinite מְלָפְפוֹנִים)
- (Mishnaic Hebrew) Armenian cucumber, vegetable melon
- cucumber
Derived terms
- מְלָפְפוֹן יָם (m'laf'fon yam)
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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