מלפפון

• מִילְפִּפּוֹן (milpipon)

From Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; tree fruit”) +‎ πέπων (pépōn, “cooked by the sun; ripe”).

• IPA^(key): /milpipon/

מלפפון • (milpipon) m (plural מִלְפִּפּוֹנַיָא)

1. muskmelon, melon

From Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; tree fruit”) +‎ πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).

Often erroneously suggested to be related with לָפַף (“to wrap around”) due to their twisting vines.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /melafeˈfon/

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מְלָפְפוֹן • (m'laf'fon) m (plural indefinite מְלָפְפוֹנִים)

1. (Mishnaic Hebrew) Armenian cucumber, vegetable melon
2. (vegetable) cucumber

• מְלָפְפוֹן יָם (m'laf'fon yam)
• מְלָפְפוֹן חָמוּץ (melafefón khamútz)

• “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^[1], 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/

• מלפפון on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he