מלפפון
Aramaic
    
    Alternative forms
    
- מִילְפִּפּוֹן (milpipon)
 
Etymology
    
From Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; tree fruit”) + πέπων (pépōn, “cooked by the sun; ripe”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /milpipon/
 
Hebrew
    
    Etymology
    
From Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; tree fruit”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).
Pronunciation
    
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /meˌla.feˈfon/
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Noun
    
מְלָפְפוֹן • (m'laf'fon) m (plural indefinite מְלָפְפוֹנִים)
- (Mishnaic Hebrew) Armenian cucumber, vegetable melon
 - cucumber
 
Derived terms
    
- מְלָפְפוֹן יָם (m'laf'fon yam)
 
References
    
- “mylppwn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986– "a type of melon" (accessed Jan. 2020)
 - Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons p. 775
 - Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press p. 278: "a kind of melon shaped like an apple"
 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759226/
 
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