دلاع

Etymology
Considered sometimes a borrowing, which would coincide with the  in the Early Middle Ages from West Africa, however first attested in 🇨🇬 as a plural  in the first quarter of the 5th century before Common Era, and it occurs in 🇨🇬 from the Mishnaic period as. The Arabic root related to “sticking out, hanging out” is connected to the word in view of the watermelon’s way of growth. That it is first attested in Aramaic and appears only more than half a millennium later in Hebrew, sometimes with an Aramaizing plural ending, and the measure which the Arabic exposes varies in the first vowel and is in both cases for this semantic field more common in Aramaic than Arabic, points to the word having passed into Arabic from.

Noun

 * 1) watermelon