بطّيخ

بطّيخ:

(بطّيخ) :

أنواع منه الهندي وتسميه أهل مصر الأخضر، وأهل المغرب تقول له:

دلّاع. وأهل الحجاز (1) حبحب (2) . والصيني هو الأصفر والخراساني هو العبدلي نسبة إلى عبد الله بن طاهر لأنه أول من زرعه بمصر. ومنه نوع يسمى شمامة ودستنبويه وبعضهم يسميه لفاح. وهو خطأ كما في نزهة العيون.

(1) وبلغة أهل الحجاز (( الطّبيخ )) . ينظر، المعجم الوسيط، ج 1ص 60، مادة [بطيخ] .

(2) في المعجم الوسيط (( الحبحب )) يعرف في مصر بالبطيخ، وفي العراق بالرقّيّ. يراجع، المعجم الوسيط، ج 1ص 151، مادة (حبحب) ، وهو يناقض ما ذكره الخفاجي.

بِطِّيخ (noun)

Etymology: Presumably borrowed from Aramaic, attested in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic בטיח (*baṭṭīḥ) and Classical Syriac ܦܲܛܝܼܚܵܐ (paṭṭīḥā), and a broken plural Hebrew אֲבַטִּיחַ (ʾăḇaṭṭī́aḥ). While it has been theoretized to have been acquired in Semitic via Egyptian bddw-kꜣ (“watermelon”) from sub-Saharan Africa, there is an explanation as an Iranian borrowing equivalent to Persian بیدخت (bêdoxt, “Venus”), which is the known Akkadian 𒂗 (bēlu, “master; Bel, Baal”) + Persian دخت (doxt, “daughter”), literally “daughter of Baal”, a reinterpretation of the feminine form of the Baʿal god found as ܒܝܠܬܝ (bēltī), ܒܠܬܝ (beltī, “Venus”) in Classical Syriac, equalling بَعْلَة (baʕla, “mistress”). Like in general food items can be reused to denote body parts, especially those viewed sexually, and in Eastern languages specifically the names of fruits come to mean “vulva”, as well-known South Levantine Arabic تِينة (tīne, “fig”), Armenian թուզ (tʻuz, “fig”), Hebrew רִמּוֹן (rimmṓn, “pomegrenate”) in Song of Solomon 7:12 and 8:2, here in turn the meaning of a melon would be secondarily transferred from representations of fertility goddesses. This is corroborated by lexicographers mentioning a Himyaritic word بَيْدَخَة (baydaḵa, “plump, chubby”, applied to women).

Meaning: watermelon, watermelons; melon, melons

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