mealbhacán

Irish

Alternative forms

• mealbhucán (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mēlopepō (“type of pumpkin”), from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”). Assimilated to the suffix -acán.

Noun

mealbhacán m (genitive singular mealbhacáin, nominative plural mealbhacáin)

1. wild carrot
2. melon
3. (obsolete) cucumber

Declension

Declension of mealbhacán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative mealbhacán mealbhacáin vocative a mhealbhacáin a mhealbhacána genitive mealbhacáin mealbhacán dative mealbhacán mealbhacáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an mealbhacán na mealbhacáin genitive an mhealbhacáin na mealbhacán dative leis an mealbhacán don mhealbhacán leis na mealbhacáin

Derived terms

• mealbhacán uisce (“watermelon”)
• buidéal mealbhacáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of mealbhacán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
mealbhacán	mhealbhacán	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mealbhacán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “melon”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “melbucán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mealbhacán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “mealbhacán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024