winter melon

English

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 冬瓜 (dōngguā).

Noun

winter melon (plural winter melons)

A vine of the species Benincasa hispida cultivated throughout Asia.
A green, fuzzy melon fruit with sweet white flesh, which grows on this vine.

Nearly mature winter melon

Synonyms

(Benincasa hispida): ash gourd, ash pumpkin, Chinese preserving melon, fuzzy melon, tallow gourd, wax gourd, white gourd, winter gourd

Translations

vine

Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံ (my) (kyaukhpa.rum), ကျောက်ဖရုံပင် (kyaukhpa.rumpang)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 冬瓜藤 (dōngguāténg)
Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa (fi)
Khmer: ត្រឡាច (km) (trɑlaac)
Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) (kumpaḷaṁ)
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: kundol

fuzzy melon fruit

Assamese: কোমোৰা (kümüra)
Banjarese: kundur
Bengali: চালকুমড়া (bn) (calkumṛa)
Bhojpuri: भतुआ (bhatuā)
Bikol Central: tangkwa (bcl)
Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံ (my) (kyaukhpa.rum), ကျောက်ဖရုံသီး (kyaukhpa.rumsi:)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 冬瓜 (dung¹ gwaa¹), 節瓜／节瓜 (zit³ gwaa¹) (smaller variety with fuzzy skin)

Hokkien: 冬瓜 (zh-min-nan) (tang-koe)

Mandarin: 冬瓜 (zh) (dōngguā), 節瓜／节瓜 (zh) (jiéguā)
Finnish: talvimeloni, vahakurpitsa (fi)
French: courge cireuse (fr) f
German: Wachskürbis m
Gujarati: ભૂરાકોળું (bhūrākoḷũ)
Hindi: पेठा (hi) (peṭhā), सफ़ेद कुम्हड़ा (safed kumhaṛā)
Indonesian: beligo (id), baligo, blonceng, kundur (id)
Japanese: トウガン (tōgan)
Javanese: ꦧ꧀ꦭꦺꦴꦚ꧀ꦕꦺꦁ (blonycéng), ꦧ꧀ꦭꦶꦒꦺꦴ (bligo), ꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦢꦸꦂ (jv) (kondur)
Kannada: ಬೂದುಗುಂಬಳ (kn) (būdugumbaḷa)
Khmer: ផ្លែត្រឡាច (phlaetrɔɔlaac)
Korean: 동과(冬瓜) (donggwa)
Malay: kundur (ms)
Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) (kumpaḷaṁ), കുമ്പളങ്ങ (ml) (kumpaḷaṅṅa)
Manchu: ᠴᡳᡵᡴᡠ
ᡥᡝᠩᡴᡝ (cirku hengke)
Marathi: कोहळा (kohḷā), कोहाळा (kohāḷā), पांढरा भोपळा (pāṇḍhrā bhopḷā)
Nepali: कुभिण्डो (ne) (kubhiṇḍo)
Punjabi: ਪੇਠਾ (pa) m (peṭhā), ਪੇਠਾ ਕੱਦੂ (peṭhā kaddū)
Russian: воскова́я ты́ква f (voskovája týkva), зи́мняя ты́ква f (zímnjaja týkva), зи́мняя ды́ня f (zímnjaja dýnja)
Sicilian: cucuzza (scn)
Sundanese: ᮘᮜᮤᮌᮧ (baligo)
Tagalog: kundol
Tamil: நீற்றுப்பூசணி (nīṟṟuppūcaṇi)
Telugu: బూడిద గుమ్మడి (te) (būḍida gummaḍi)
Thai: ฟักเขียว (fák kǐao)
Tibetan: ཀུབ་དཀར། (kub dkar)
Vietnamese: bí đao (vi)
Zhuang: lwgfaeg

References

winter melon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Benincasa hispida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Benincasa hispida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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