بَطِّيخٌ
Root: بطخ
Full Definition
بَطِّيخٌ
, vulgarly and incorrectly pronounced بَطِّيخٌ, and in the dial. of El-Hijáz called طِبِّيخٌ, A certain well-known fruit; [the melon, absolutely, as is shown by many passages in the lexicons, and expressly stated in law-books: and, particularly, the water-melon; cucurbita citrullus: or a plant] of the kind called
يَقْطِين, that does not grow tall, but extends itself upon the surface of the ground: and also the خِرْبِز [or خَرْبُز, a Persian word, and applied to the water-melon, by the Turks termed by this name, and in their own language قَارْپُوزْ]: or البِطِّيخُ الهِنْدِىُّ [the Indian بطّيخ] is what is called in Persian the
خَرْبُز: [the term بطّيخ is applied to many varieties of the water-melon, distinguished by different epithets; as الأَحْمَرُ
the red,
الأَصْفَرُ
the yellow,
الأَبْيَضُ
the white,
الأَجْرَبُ
the mangy,
النَّمْشُ
the speckled,
البُرُلُّىُّ
that of El-Burullus, &c.: it is a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة.
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more