helvacı kabağı
التعريفات والمعاني
== Turkish ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حلواجی قباغی (helvacı kabağı). By surface analysis, helvacı (“halva maker”) + kabak (“zucchini; squash”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /hel.va.d͡ʒɯ ka.baˈɯ/
=== Noun ===
helvacı kabağı (definite accusative helvacı kabağını, plural helvacı kabakları)
pumpkin, winter squash, one of at least five species of cultivated squash (Cucurbita maxima)
Synonym: kestane kabağı
==== Declension ====
=== Further reading ===
“helvacı kabağı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “helvacı kabağı”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “helvacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1928