Persian

Alternative forms

• خربز ‎(xarboz)
• خربوزه ‎(xarbuze)
• خربیزه ‎(xarbize) (dialectal)

Noun

خربزه • ‎(xarboze) ‎(plural خربزه‌ها ‎(xarboze-hâ))

1. melon

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: خربز ‎(harbüz), خربزه ‎(harbüze)
  • → Old East Slavic: арбузъ ‎(arbuzŭ)
    • → Russian: арбу́з ‎(arbúz)
      • → Estonian: arbuus
      • → Latvian: arbūzs
      • → Lithuanian: arbūzas
    • → Polish: arbuz
  • → Ukrainian: гарбу́з ‎(harbúz, “pumpkin”)
    • → Polish: harbuz
    • → Romanian: harbuz
• → Turkic: (taking Persian as representative for all Iranian)
  • Azeri: qarpız
    • → Persian: قارپوز ‎(qârpuz)
  • Bashkir: ҡарбуз ‎(qarbuz)
  • Crimean Tatar: qarpız
  • Kazakh: қарбыз ‎(qarbız)
  • Ottoman Turkish: قارپوز ‎(karpuz)
    • Turkish: karpuz
    • → Albanian: karpuz
    • → Bulgarian: карпу́з ‎(karpúz)
    • → Greek: καρπούζι ‎(karpoúzi)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: ка̀рпуза, kàrpuza
  • Tatar: карбыз ‎(qarbız)
  • Turkmen: garpyz
• → Sanskrit: खर्बूज ‎(kharbūja)
  • Marathi: टरबूज ‎(ṭarbūj)

References

• Horn, Paul (1893), “xerbuze”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 105
• Fasmer, Maks (1964), “арбуз”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress, page 83
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “karpuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• 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
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “խարպիզակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 348b