pastèque
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Portuguese pateca, from Arabic بَطِّيخَة (baṭṭīḵa, “melon, watermelon”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpastèque f (plural pastèques)
- watermelon (plant)
- Synonym: melon d’eau
- watermelon (fruit)
- Synonym: melon d’eau
- (slang) boob (female breast)
Further reading
edit- “pastèque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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