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English
Etymology
Calque from Chinese 冬瓜 dōngguā
Noun
winter melon plural winter melons
A vine of the species Benincasa hispida Asia .
A green , fuzzy melon fruit with sweet white flesh, which grows on this vine. Nearly mature winter melon
Synonyms
Translations
fuzzy melon fruit
Assamese: কোমোৰা ( kümüra )
Banjarese: kundur
Bengali: চালকুমড়া (bn) ( calkumṛa )
Bhojpuri: भतुआ ( bhatuā )
Bikol Central: tangkwa (bcl)
Burmese: ကျောက်ဖရုံ (my) ( kyaukhpa.rum ) , ကျောက်ဖရုံသီး ( kyaukhpa.rumsi: )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 冬瓜 ( dung1 gwaa1 ) , 節瓜 ／ 节瓜 ( zit3 gwaa1 ) ( smaller variety with fuzzy skin )
Hokkien: 冬瓜 (zh-min-nan) ( tang-koe )
Mandarin: 冬瓜 (zh) ( dōngguā ) , 節瓜 ／ 节瓜 (zh) ( jiéguā )
Finnish: talvimeloni vahakurpitsa (fi)
French: courge cireuse (fr) f
German: Wachskürbis m
Gujarati: ભૂરાકોળું ( bhūrākoḷũ )
Hindi: पेठा (hi) ( peṭhā ) , सफ़ेद कुम्हड़ा ( safed kumhaṛā )
Indonesian: beligo (id) , baligo blonceng kundur (id)
Japanese: トウガン ( tōgan )
Javanese: ꦧ꧀ꦭꦺꦴꦚ꧀ꦕꦺꦁ ( blonycéng ) , ꦧ꧀ꦭꦶꦒꦺꦴ ( bligo ) , ꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦢꦸꦂ (jv) ( kondur )
Kannada: ಬೂದುಗುಂಬಳ (kn) ( būdugumbaḷa )
Khmer: ផ្លែត្រឡាច ( phlaetrɔɔlaac )
Korean: 동과(冬瓜) ( donggwa )
Malay: kundur (ms)
Malayalam: കുമ്പളം (ml) ( kumpaḷaṁ ) , കുമ്പളങ്ങ (ml) ( kumpaḷaṅṅa )
Manchu: ᠴᡳᡵᡴᡠ ( cirku hengke )
Marathi: कोहळा ( kohḷā ) , कोहाळा ( kohāḷā ) , पांढरा भोपळा ( pāṇḍhrā bhopḷā )
Nepali: कुभिण्डो (ne) ( kubhiṇḍo )
Punjabi: ਪੇਠਾ (pa) m ( peṭhā ) , ਪੇਠਾ ਕੱਦੂ ( peṭhā kaddū )
Russian: воскова́я ты́ква f ( voskovája týkva ) , зи́мняя ты́ква f ( zímnjaja týkva ) , зи́мняя ды́ня f ( zímnjaja dýnja )
Sicilian: cucuzza (scn)
Sundanese: ᮘᮜᮤᮌᮧ ( baligo )
Tagalog: kundol
Tamil: நீற்றுப்பூசணி ( nīṟṟuppūcaṇi )
Telugu: బూడిద గుమ్మడి (te) ( būḍida gummaḍi )
Thai: ฟักเขียว ( fák kǐao )
Tibetan: ཀུབ་དཀར། ( kub dkar )
Vietnamese: bí đao (vi)
Zhuang: lwgfaeg
See also
References
winter melon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Benincasa hispida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Benincasa hispida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons