تربز

See also: ثرثر‎, بربر‎, and تزبر‎

Persian

Alternative forms

تربزه‎ (tarboze), تربوز‎ (tarbuz), تربوزه‎ (tarbuze)

Etymology

Possibly a metathesized and zetacized derivative of Sanskrit त्रपुस (trapusa, “colocynth fruit”) (compare ‎).

Noun

Dari	تَربُوز، هِندِوانَه‎
Iranian Persian	هِندِوانِه، خَربُز‎
Tajik	тарбуз (tarbuz)

تربز • (tarboz) (plural تربزها‎ (tarboz-hâ))

(archaic, dialectal or nonstandard) watermelon
Synonyms: خربز‎ (xarboz), هندوانه‎ (hendevâne)

Descendants

→ Assamese: তৰমুজ (toromuz)
→ Bengali: তরমুজ (toromuj)
→ Hindustani:
- Hindi: तरबूज़ (tarbūz)
  - ⇒ Tamil: தர்பூசணி (tarpūcaṇi)
- Urdu: تربوز‎ (tarbūz)
→ Kalmyk: тарвс (tarvs)
→ Mongolian: тарвас (tarvas)
→ Old Turkic: [script needed] (*tarbuz)
- Kyrgyz: дарбыз (darbız)
- Turkish: karpuz
- Uyghur: تاۋۇز‎ (tawuz)
- Uzbek: tarvuz

References

Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎ (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1590

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