Where does “بطيخ أصفر” come from?

بطيخ أصفر (North Levantine Arabic) comes from Arabic أصفر, from Arabic أَصْفَر — yellow.

بطيخ أصفر (North Levantine Arabic): honeydew

Definitions

  1. honeydew

Ancestry of “بطيخ أصفر”, step by step

بطيخ أصفر traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Arabic أصفر

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicأصفرyellow; to empty, to void, to vacate, to...
2Arabicأَصْفَرyellow

via North Levantine Arabic بطّيخ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1North Levantine Arabicبطّيخ
Every word from Arabic أَصْفَرEvery word from Arabic أصفر