pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo; typical pumpkin used for Halloween and autumn seasonal decoration); gourd, pumpkin; cep, porcino (Boletus edulis); ellipsis of calabaza de nuez (“butternut squash”); bad grades
“-¿Y cómo va de visitas? -¿De qué visitas? -pregunté a mi vez. -¡Calabaza!, de las innumerables que tendrá usted que hacer en Madrid... porque ustedes, los pudientes de la Montaña, son el mismo demonio en este particular.”
Synonyms: zapallo, auyama, ahuyama, ayote
Etymology tree Paleo-Hispanicbor.? Vulgar Latin *calapaccia? Old Spanish calabaça Spanish calabaza Inherited from Old Spanish calabaça, possibly from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *calapaccia (compare Catalan carabassa and Portuguese cabaça), ultimately of Paleo-Hispanic origin. Less likely from Arabic قَرْعَة يَابِسَة (qarʕa(t) yābisa, “dry gourd”), which is from Classical Persian خَرْبُزَه (xarbuza, “melon”).