pumpkin

What is the Hindi word for pumpkin? Dictionaries seem to use the word pumpkin in a general sense for any squash/gourd because I've even seen the word ghiiyaa defined as a pumpkin in some dictionaries. By pumpkin, I mean the large, round orange-colored vegetable/fruit that is used to make pies and other sweets in the U.S. and in India/Pakistan is used to make a certain type of halwa and perhaps a sabzii too. Is the correct term kadduu, siitaaphal, peThaa, or something else?

If you are sure about its orange color, and that it is large and round, then it is "kohda"

कोंहड़ा (it is written Cucurbit gourd at some places).

 

Kaddu कद्दू is the Hindi word for "pumpkin". It is also called Lauki लौकी. But Kaddu/Lauki is most of the time "green" in color" and it comes in cylindrical shape most of the times though at times it is round also. But big round orange colored vegetable is "kohda"

कोंहड़ा and not "kaddu" कद्दू.