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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirdepo View Post
    Bulgarian and Hungarian language isolates

    Dinya for us "pumpkin"
    Yeah that's interesting Dinya/dinnye

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    "Karpuz" in Turkish. "Karpuza" and "Lebenisa" in Pomak. We use karpuza, but have heard many use lebenisa as well.

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    We call диња/dinja only this




    This is лубеница/lubenica

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    Slovene: Lubenica.

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    Lubenica in standard
    Dinja in Dalmatian dialect

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirdepo View Post
    Azeri: qarpız
    Estonian: arbuus
    Greek: karpoúzi
    Gujarati: tarabūca
    Hindi: tarabooj
    Kazakh: qarbız
    Kyrgyz: darbız
    Latvian: arbūzs
    Lithuanian: arbūzas
    Mongolian: tarvas
    Nepali: tarabūja
    Polish: arbuz
    Punjabi: tarabūja
    Russian: arbuz
    Somali: qaraha
    Tajik: tarʙuz
    Tamil: tarpūcaṇi
    Tatar: carbose
    Turkish: karpuz
    Turkmen: garpyz
    Uzbek: tarvuz
    R1a Turkic herritage

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaromir View Post
    R1a Turkic herritage
    Is true tho, why you highlighted only those 3

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirdepo View Post
    Is true tho, why you highlighted only those 3
    I have bolded random countries from that list, but yes Estonia is full of R1a, Turkey had its Ottomans with that marker too

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    Since Lubenica is already said,we also use Bostan.

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    Lebeniță in NW Romania. I've also heard lubeniță in other parts. The standard form is pepene roșu (red melon). In the east, as well as in RM, harbuz is the local variant.

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