karpuza

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قارپوز (karpuz) (Turkish karpuz), from Persian خربزه (xarboze). Akin to karpūzī.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǎrpuza/
  • Hyphenation: kar‧pu‧za

Noun

kàrpuza f (Cyrillic spelling ка̀рпуза)

  1. (regional) melon

Declension

References

  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 398
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.