# watermelon
## English
### Etymology

From the 1610s, a compound of water +‎ melon.
The meanings referring to environmentalists, collaborators, and behind-schedule projects derive from the idea of having green (eco-friendly, pro-Tatmadaw, on-schedule) outward appearance while being red (socialist, pro-rebel, behind schedule) in a hidden way comparable to that of the fruit.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈwɔːtəˌmɛlən/
* (US) IPA: /ˈwɔtɚˌmɛlən/, /ˈwɑtɚˌmɛlən/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

watermelon (countable and uncountable, plural watermelons)
* A plant of the species Citrullus lanatus, bearing a melon-like fruit.
* The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is typically bright red when ripe and contains black seeds.
* (derogatory, slang) An environmentalist with socialist leanings, an ecosocialist.
** 2010 August 7, Robin McKie, “Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:According to this distorted view of life, environmentalists are watermelons – green on the outside, red on the inside – who want to impose regulation, “the slippery slope to socialism”, on the use of tobacco, ozone-destroying chemicals and greenhouse gases.
* A pinkish-red colour, like that of watermelon flesh (also called watermelon pink).
    watermelon:
* A project that is presented as on schedule when it actually has parts that are falling behind.
** 2011 August 8, Marc Löffler, “Watermelon Reporting”, in DZone‎, AnswerHub:The nuts and bolts of any project are transparency. If the project status is transparent, the watermelons can’t arise. If anybody is able to get the information, it will be difficult to hide something.
** 2015 September 17, Ken Burrell, “Watch out for watermelons in project reports”, in LinkedIn‎:As a PMO [project management officer], wherever I see watermelon reporting, I encourage the PM [project manager] to be brave and honest enough to ask for help.
** 2021 April 24, Sumir Karayi, “Combatting the Watermelon Effect to Improve Digital Experience”, in CIO‎, IDG Communications, archived from the original on 5 June 2021:[see title]
* (slang, Myanmar) A Tatmadaw soldier who collaborates with an ethnic armed organization.
** 2024 December 20, Rebecca Henschke, Ko Ko Aung, Jack Aung, “Soldier-spies in Myanmar help pro-democracy rebels make crucial gains”, in BBC News‎, retrieved 20 December 2024:The soldier spies are known as "Watermelons" - green on the outside, rebel red within. Outwardly loyal to the military but secretly working for the pro-democracy rebels whose symbolic colour is red.

#### Derived terms

* watermelon beetle
* watermelon radish
* watermelon tourmaline

#### Translations

Adyghe: хъырбыдз (ꭓərbədz)
Afrikaans: waterlemoen (af), waatlemoen (af), wartlemoen (af)
Albanian: shalqi (sq), bostan (sq) m
Arabic: بَطِّيخ (baṭṭīḵ) (collective), بَطِّيخَة f (baṭṭīḵa) (singulative)
Algerian Arabic: دلاع
Egyptian Arabic: بطيخ m (baṭṭīḵ) (collective), بطيخة f (baṭṭīḵa) (singulative)
Gulf Arabic: جحّ m (jiḥḥ), يح, رقي m (raggī)
Hijazi Arabic: بطيخ m (baṭṭīḵ), حَبحَب m (ḥabḥab)
Mesopotamian Arabic: رقّي m (raggi, raqqi), شمزي m (šəmzi)
Moroccan Arabic: دلاح m (dallāḥ) (collective), دلاحة m (dallāḥa) (singulative)
North Levantine Arabic: بطيخ m (baṭṭīḵ)
South Levantine Arabic: بطيخ m (baṭṭīḵ)
Tunisian Arabic: دلاع m (dillēʕ)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܸܦܬܝܼܵܐ (šiptiya)
Classical Syriac: ܦܲܛܝܼܚܵܐ (paṭṭīḥā)
Armenian: ձմերուկ (hy) (jmeruk)
Assamese: তৰমুজ (tormuz)
Asturian: sandía (ast) f
Azerbaijani: qarpız (az)
Bashkir: ҡарбуз (qarbuz)
Basque: angurri
Belarusian: каву́н m (kavún)
Bengali: তরমুজ (bn) (toromuj)
Bikol Central: pakwan
Brunei Malay: sikoi
Bulgarian: ди́ня (bg) f (dínja)
Burmese: ဖရဲ (my) (hpa.rai:)
Cahuilla: 'estu'ish
Catalan: síndria (ca) f, meló d'Alger (ca) m, meló d'aigua (ca) m
Cebuano: pakwan
Central Dusun: sadur
Central Sierra Miwok: santija-
Chavacano: pakwan
Chickasaw: istokchank
Chinese:
Cantonese: 西瓜 (yue) (sai$^1$ gwaa$^1$)
Hokkien: 西瓜 (zh-min-nan) (si-koe / se-koe / si-koa), 生瓜 (siⁿ-koe)
Mandarin: 西瓜 (zh) (xīguā)
Czech: vodní meloun (cs) m
Danish: vandmelon (da) c
Dutch: watermeloen (nl) f
Egyptian: (bddw-kꜣ)
Esperanto: akvomelono
Estonian: arbuus (et), vesimelon
Faroese: vatnmelón
Finnish: vesimeloni (fi), arbuusi (fi)
French: pastèque (fr) f, melon d’eau (fr) m
Friulian: angurie f
Galician: cidra (gl) f, pepón m, guineo m, sandía (gl) f
Gallurese: síndria, patéca
Georgian: საზამთრო (ka) (sazamtro)
German: Wassermelone (de) f
Greek: καρπούζι (el) n (karpoúzi), υδροπέπων (el) m (ydropépon)
Gujarati: તરબૂચ (tarbūc)
Hawaiian: ipu haole
Hebrew: אֲבַטִּיחַ (he) m (avatíakh)
Hindi: तरबूज़ (hi) m (tarbūz)
Hungarian: görögdinnye (hu)
Icelandic: vatnsmelóna f
Ido: aquomelono (io)
Ilocano: sandia
Indonesian: semangka (id)
Irish: mealbhacán uisce
Isthmus Zapotec: xandié
Italian: cocomero (it) m, anguria (it) f
Japanese: スイカ (ja) (suika) (西瓜 (ja) (すいか, suika))
Javanese: semangka (jv)
Kabardian: хъарбыз (kbd) (ꭓarbəz)
Kalmyk: тарвс (tarvs)
Kannada: ಕಲ್ಲಂಗಡಿ (kn) (kallaṅgaḍi)
Kapampangan: pakuan
Kazakh: қарбыз (qarbyz)
Khmer: ឪឡឹក (km) (ʼəwlək)
Korean: 수박 (ko) (subak), 서과(西瓜) (seogwa)
Kumyk: харбуз (xarbuz)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شووتی (ckb) (şûtî)
Northern Kurdish: zebeş (ku) m, şûtî (ku) m
Kyrgyz: дарбыз (ky) (darbız)
Ladino: קארפוּס m (karpus)
Lao: ໝາກໂມ (lo) (māk mō)
Latin: citrullus m
Latvian: arbūzs (lv) m
Lezgi: къарпуз (q̄arpuz)
Lithuanian: arbūzas (lt) m
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: Waassermeloun f
Macedonian: лубеница (mk) f (lubenica), бостан m (bostan)
Malay: tembikai (ms), semangka (ms) (Johore, Singapore, Riau), mendikai (ms)
Malayalam: തണ്ണിമത്തൻ (ml) (taṇṇimattaṉ)
Maltese: dulliegħ m
Manchu: ᡩᡠᠩᡤᠠ (dungga)
Maori: merengi
Marathi: कलिंगड (kaliṅgaḍ)
Marwari: मतीरौ m (matīrau)
Mbyá Guaraní: xãjáu
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: шийгуа (mn) (šiigua), тарвас (mn) (tarvas)
Navajo: chʼééhjiyáán
Neapolitan: mellóne d'àcqua
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vannmelon (no) m, vassmelon (no) m
Nynorsk: vassmelon m
Okinawan: 広東瓜 (くゎんとぅうい, kwantuui)
Osage: sáhku
Ottoman Turkish: قارپوز (karpuz)
Pannonian Rusyn: ґереґа f (gerega)
Pashto: هندواڼه
Persian: هندوانه (fa) (hendevâne), تربز (tarboz), خربز (xarboz), خربزه (fa) (xarboze)
Plautdietsch: Rebus f
Polish: arbuz (pl) m
Portuguese: melancia (pt) f
Punjabi: ਹਦਵਾਣਾ (pa) (hadvāṇā), ਤਰਬੂਜ (pa) (tarbūj), ਮਤੀਰਾ (pa) (matīrā)
Quechua: santiya
Romanian: pepene verde m, lubeniță (ro) f (regional), harbuz (ro) m (regional)
Russian: арбу́з (ru) m (arbúz)
Sanskrit: कालिन्द (sa) (kālinda), तरम्बुज (sa) m (tarambuja)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: síndria
Limba Sarda Comuna: sìndria
Logudorese: síndria
Sassarese: síndria
Scots: wattermelon
Scottish Gaelic: meal-bhuc uisge f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лубѐница f, бо̀стан m
Roman: lubènica (sh) f, bòstan (sh) m
Shan: တႅင်ၸမ်ႈပူႇ (těng tsām pùu), တႅင်ၸမ်ႇပူႇ (shn) (těng tsàm pùu)
Sinhalese: දිය කොමඩු (diya komaḍu)
Slovak: vodný melón m
Slovene: lubenica (sl) f
Sotho: lehapu
Southern Altai: арбуз (arbuz)
Spanish: sandía (es) f, melón de agua m (Southeastern Spain, specifically Murcia, Cuba, Puerto Rico), patilla (es) f (Colombian Caribbean Coast, Venezuela)
Swahili: tikiti (sw) class 5/6
Swedish: vattenmelon (sv) c
Tabaru: samaka
Tagalog: pakwan (tl)
Tajik: тарбуз (tg) (tarbuz)
Talysh: зымсони (zımsoni)
Tamil: தர்பூசணி (ta) (tarpūcaṇi)
Tatar: карбыз (tt) (qarbız)
Telugu: పుచ్చకాయ (te) (puccakāya)
Ternate: samaka
Thai: แตงโม (th) (dtɛɛng-moo)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tigrinya: ብርጭቕ (bərč̣əx̣)
Turkish: karpuz (tr)
Turkmen: garpyz
Ukrainian: каву́н (uk) m (kavún)
Urdu: تربوز m (tarbūz)
Uyghur: تاۋۇز (tawuz)
Uzbek: tarvuz (uz)
Venetan: cocomaro m, cocomero m, anguria (vec) f, inguria f
Vietnamese: dưa hấu (vi)
Volga German: Erbus
Welsh: dyfrfelon (cy) m, melon dŵr (cy) m
Western Panjabi: ہدواݨا (hdoāṇā)
White Hmong: dib liab
Wolof: xaal (wo)
Yiddish: קאַווענע f (kavene), אַרבוז m (arbuz)
Zazaki: debeş f
Zhuang: gvehoengz, sihgvah
Zulu: ikhabe (zu) class 5/6 :

### Anagrams

* lemonwater, water lemon, lemon water