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taro

See also: Appendix:Variations of "taro"

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Maori taro. Doublet of kalo, from Hawaiian.

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Noun

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taro (usually uncountable, plural taros)

 
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  1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
    Synonyms: colocasia, elephant ears
    • 2018, Lena Dominelli, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work‎[1], Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:
      The Jiasian region is famous for taro ice cream. Even though taro is the key ingredient in the ice cream, people in this area bought taro from other regions. During the post-Typhoon Morakot reconstruction process, JCA and other local organisations encouraged large numbers of farmers in Jiasian to grow taro. The Agriculture Bureau then started investing in Jiasian taro farming. Local taro ice cream makers are now using local taro to support local agriculture.
  2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
  3. Food from a taro plant.
    Synonym: dasheen

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Tok Pisin: taro

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

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  • IPA(key): /ta.ʁo/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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taro m (plural taros)

  1. taro (plant)
    Synonym: colocase

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Galician

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Etymology

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Unknown. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

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taro m (plural taros)

  1. sandbank
    Synonyms: banco, barra, restinga, brica, sirte
  2. peak, mountain
    Synonyms: cotarro, outeiro

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Hiri Motu

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Noun

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taro

  1. taro

Italian

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Verb

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taro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tarare

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Kholosi

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

Noun

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taro ?

  1. star

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  • Eric Anonby, Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎[2], pages 13-36

Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs (compare with Malay talas and Javanese tales).[1]

Noun

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taro

  1. taro
  2. bread

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ “Talo”, in Te Māra Reo: The Language Garden, Benton Family Trust, 2022

Further reading

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  • “taro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Maranao

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Noun

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taro

  1. wax

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Pali

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Alternative forms

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Alternative forms

Noun

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taro

  1. nominative singular of tara (“the Pali root tar”)

Polish

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Noun

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taro f

  1. vocative singular of tara

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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taro m (plural taros)

  1. taro (Colocasia esculenta; edible corm of the taro plant)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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taro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tarar

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtaɾo/ [ˈt̪a.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -aɾo
  • Syllabification: ta‧ro

Etymology 1

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Noun

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taro m (uncountable)

  1. taro

Etymology 2

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Verb

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taro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tarar

Tahitian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

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taro

  1. taro

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English taro.

Noun

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taro

  1. The taro plant.
    • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎[3], →ISBN, page 433:
      Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn; pierce”).

Verb

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taro (first-person singular present trawaf)

  1. to strike, hit
  2. to jot down, to note
Conjugation
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Conjugation (literary)
singular plural impersonal
first second third first second third
present indicative/future trawaf trewi tery, trawa trawn trewch trawant trewir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional trawn trawit trawai trawem trawech trawent trewid
preterite trewais trewaist trawodd trawsom trawsoch trawsant trawyd
pluperfect trawswn trawsit trawsai trawsem trawsech trawsent trawsid, trewsid
present subjunctive trawyf trewych trawo trawom trawoch trawont trawer
imperative — taro trawed trawn trewch trawent trawer
verbal noun taro
verbal adjectives trawedig
trawadwy
Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms singular plural
first second third first second third
future trawa i, trawaf i trawi di trawith o/e/hi, trawiff e/hi trawn ni trawch chi trawan nhw
conditional trawn i, trawswn i trawet ti, trawset ti trawai fo/fe/hi, trawsai fo/fe/hi trawen ni, trawsen ni trawech chi, trawsech chi trawen nhw, trawsen nhw
preterite trawais i, trawes i trawaist ti, trawest ti trawodd o/e/hi trawon ni trawoch chi trawon nhw
imperative — trawa — — trawch —
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From English taro, from Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

Noun

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taro m (uncountable)

  1. taro

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
taro daro nharo tharo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “taro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yami

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Noun

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taro

  1. wax
  2. candle
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