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tapioca

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Pronunciation edit

  • (General American) IPA(key): /tæpiˈoʊkə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun edit

tapioca (countable and uncountable, plural tapiocas)

  1. A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.
    • 2009, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 286:
      Fish eyes and glue we used to call the half-cooked, large-grained, starchy tapioca without flavour that we were served every week in our residence at university. How I longed for the creamy pudding Mother used to make.
  2. The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:
      When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.

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Descendants edit

  • → Maori: tapioka
  • → Marshallese: tapioka
  • → Tagalog: tapyoka

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tapioca m (plural tapiocas)

  1. tapioca

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Italian edit

 
Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca.

Noun edit

tapioca f (plural tapioche)

  1. tapioca

Anagrams edit

Portuguese edit

 
Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ta.piˈɔ.kɐ/ [ta.pɪˈɔ.kɐ], (faster pronunciation) /taˈpjɔ.kɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ta.piˈɔ.ka/ [ta.pɪˈɔ.ka], (faster pronunciation) /taˈpjɔ.ka/

  • Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
  • Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧o‧ca

Noun edit

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

  1. tapioca (starchy food made from cassava)

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Spanish edit

 
Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /taˈpjoka/ [t̪aˈpjo.ka]
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Syllabification: ta‧pio‧ca

Noun edit

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

  1. tapioca

Derived terms edit

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