Kabaks and Kharbuzes

Kabak

• Turkic
  • Turkish - kabak - squash
  • Uzbek - қовоқ /qɔ'wɔq/ - pumpkin
  • Tatar - кабак /qɒ'bɑq/ - pumpkin
  • Kazakh - асқабақ /ɑsqɑ'bɑq/ - pumpkin; қабақ /qɑ'bɑq/ - squash
  • Azeri - balqabak - pumpkin, squash
• Estonian - kabatsôkk - squash
• Russian - кабачок /kɐbɐ'tʃɔk/ - pumpkin
• Japanese - /kɑbotʃɑ/ - pumpkin, squash
• Yiddish - /kɑ'bɑk/ - squash
• Yoeme - kama - squash
• Caucasus
  • Chechen - ghaapaq - pumpkin
  • Ingush - jaabaq - pumpkin
  • Georgian - KVAXI - squash

Kharbuz

• Turkic
  • Turkish - karpuz - watermelon
  • Uzbek - тарвуз /tɑr'wuz/ - watermelon
  • Tatar - карбыз /qɑr'bɯz/ - watermelon
  • Kazakh - қарбыз /qɒr'bɯz/ - watermelon
• Uralic
  • Estonian - arbuus - melon; kõrvits - pumpkin; melonkõrvits - squash
  • Finnish - arbuusi - watermelon; kurpitsa - pumpkin, squash
• Russian - арбуз /ɐr'buz/ - watermelon
• Yiddish - /ɑr'buz/ - watermelon
• German - Kürbis - pumpkin, squash
• English - calabash - a type of gourd; cucurbita - a genus in the Gourd family Cucurbitaceae, including squashes and pumpkins
• Baltic
  • Latvian - arbūzs - watermelon
  • Lithuanian - arbūzas - watermelon
• Balkan Sprachbund and Caucasus
  • Greek - καρπουζι - watermelon, κοlοκυnte - pumpkin
  • Albanian - karpuz - watermelon
  • Chechen - horbaz - watermelon
• Iberian and Romance
  • Basque - kalabaza - pumpkin, squash
  • Spanish - calabaza - pumpkin; calabazín - squash
  • Catalan - carabaça - gourd
  • French - calebasse - gourd
• Indic
  • Urdu - /k^hɐr'buz/ - ~melon
  • Nepali - /k^hɐr'buzɐ/ - melon (all types)
• Farsi - xarboze - melon
• Zarma - kabusa - squash
• Chinese - húlú (葫蘆) - a type of gourd; húzi (葫子) - a type of gourd
• Arabic - qarʔa yābisa - dried gourd

Kavun

• Arabic - قاوُون - melon
• Turkic
  • Turkish - kavun - melon
  • Uzbek - қовун /qɔ'wun/ - melon
  • Tatar - кавун /qɒ'wun/ - melon
  • Azeri - qovun - melon
• Yiddish - /'kɑvɛnɛ/ - watermelon

Note to Jon from George: Every time I make a change to this page, it turns all the non-Roman letters into question marks, and it looks like it moves all the macrons. How does one prevent that from happening. Also, on the Estonian word "korvits" that I added, there's supposed to be an accent on the 'o' that I'm not familiar with. It's shaped like a very squished seven, or like a cedilla, but on the wrong side. If you can figure out what it is and how to get it to show up, that would be nice.

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