What is the word for watermelon in your language?

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Originally Posted by Vrazijadivizija

Since Lubenica is already said,we also use Bostan.

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In my region (Sandzak), we only use "bostan", funnily it comes from Turkish bostan which is not the fruit (as others said, watermelon is karpuz in Turkish), but the garden where the melons grow lol

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Originally Posted by RogueState

In my region (Sandzak), we only use "bostan", funnily it comes from Turkish bostan which is not the fruit (as others said, watermelon is karpuz in Turkish), but the garden where the melons grow lol

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Originally Posted by Hulu

We use bostan for melon (as well as pjeper). But I have heard some people use bostan for watermelon too.

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Well yeah..my family surely took that saying from the Bosniaks that lived next to them.For my mother and her family Lubenica/Dinja even tho its seperated,is called Bostan as one but its mostly word for Lubenica.

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Originally Posted by Vrazijadivizija

Well yeah..my family surely took that saying from the Bosniaks that lived next to them.For my mother and her family Lubenica/Dinja even tho its seperated,is called Bostan as one but its mostly word for Lubenica.

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They are unrelated, turks use karpuz for watermelon. Bostan for garden is an Iranic word, so it's indoeuropean in origin. Boston for example is an English word where Boston's name comes from.

Karpuz

Spanish=sandía
Basque=angurri

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Originally Posted by Aeduard

Pepene

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In Spanish "pepón" is a unusual synonymous with "sandía" (watermelon).pepo-peponis is "melon" in Latin.(in Spanish "melon" is "melón" )

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Originally Posted by Aren

We say Sindia pronounced Səndia in my Neo-Aramaic dialect. A loan from colloquial Iraqi Arabic. I believe the etymology is Arabic for "from Sind", a region in Pakistan.

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So the Spanish "sandía" , probably comes with arabs from orient.

From the Royal Spanish Academy dictionary:

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Del ár. hisp. *sandíyya, y este del ár. clás. sindiyyah 'de Sind', región de Pakistán de la que procede.

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"From the Hispanic Arabic * sandíyya, and this from the classical Arabic sindiyyah 'from Sind', the region of Pakistan from which it comes."

Edit:so not "probably" it comes from Arab.

"vodní meloun" or just "meloun"; former being direct equivalent of name watermelon (voda=water)

Romanian: pepene

^^ that girl on your signature has two nice, plump "pepenes", yes