Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kʷ(r)ā ( ~ gʷ-)

Meaning: gourd, melon

Chinese: 瓜 *kʷrā muskmelon.

Tibetan: ku-ba gourd.

Burmese: sǝkhwa cucurbitaceae; cucumber (Luce).

Comments: Luce 8.

Chinese characters :

Character: 瓜

Modern (Beijing) reading: guā

Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷrā

Classic Old Chinese: kwrā

Western Han Chinese: kwrā

Eastern Han Chinese: kwrǟ

Early Postclassic Chinese: kwạ̄

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwạ̄

Late Postclassic Chinese: kwạ̄

Middle Chinese: kwạ

English meaning : muskmelon (Cucumis melo)

Russian meaning[s]: 1) тыква (Benincasa serifera); общее обозначение тыквенных растений; 2) сегмент, сектор; делиться на части; 3) 16 лет (девушке)

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 97

Four-angle index: 4867

Karlgren code: 0041 a

Jianchuan Bai: -kua4

Dali Bai: -kua5

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 192

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 瓜

MC description : 假合二平麻見

ZIHUI: 3900 0119

Beijing: kua 11

Jinan: kua 11

Xi'an: kua 11

Taiyuan: kua 1

Hankou: kua 11

Chengdu: kua 11

Yangzhou: kuâ 11

Suzhou: ko 11

Wenzhou: ko 11

Changsha: kua 11

Shuangfeng: ko 11

Nanchang: kua 11

Meixian: kua 11

Guangzhou: kua 11

Xiamen: kua 11 (lit.); kue 11

Chaozhou: kue 21

Fuzhou: kua 11

Shanghai: kuo 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: kua 1

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