قاون

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kagun.

Noun

قاون • (kavun, kavın)

  1. melon
  2. lemon
    Synonym: لیمون (limon)

Descendants
  • Turkish: kavun
  • → Arabic: قَاوُون (qāwūn, “bitter melon, cantaloupe”)
    • Kurdish:
      → Northern Kurdish: qawin, qawûn
  • → Georgian: ყავუნი (q̇avuni) — Chveneburi
  • → Laz: კავონი (ǩavoni)
  • → Ukrainian: каву́н (kavún, “watermelon”) (or possibly from Tatar)

References
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3603

Turkmen

Noun

قاون (gawun)

  1. Arabic spelling of gawun (“melon”)
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