potato

EnglishEdit

Potato and cross-section.

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taino batata.

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɑːtəʊ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪtəʊ/
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(General American) enPR: pə-tāʹtō, IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪtoʊ/, [pʰəˈteɪɾoʊ], /pəˈteɪtə/, [pʰəˈteɪɾə]
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Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

NounEdit

potato (plural potatoes)

A plant tuber, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe
(informal, Britain) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
(humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
(slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.

SynonymsEdit

(plant): spud (slang)
(vegetable): earthapple (rare)

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from potato

TranslationsEdit

plant tuber eaten as starchy vegetable

Abkhaz: акартош (āḳārṭoš)
Adyghe: чӏырыкӏу (č̣ərəḳ°)
Afrikaans: aartappel, ertappel
Albanian: patate (sq), kërtollë (sq)
Amharic: ድንች (dənč)
Arabic: بَطَاطَا‏‎ (ar) f (baṭāṭā), بَطَاطِس‏‎ m (baṭāṭis)
Egyptian Arabic: بطاطس‏‎ f (baṭáṭes)

Moroccan Arabic: بْطاطا‏‎ f (bṭæṭa)
Aragonese: trunfa f
Armenian: կարտոֆիլ (hy) (kartofil)
Aromanian: combar (roa-rup), pãpati, pãtatã f, curcaci, cumpir
Assamese: আলু (ālu)
Asturian: pataca f
Aymara: ch'uqi
Azeri: kartof (az)
Bashkir: бәрәңге (bäräñge), картуф (kartuf)
Basque: patata (eu), lursagar
Bavarian: Eadäpfe
Belarusian: бу́льба f (búlʹba)
Bengali: আলু (alu)
Breton: aval-douar (br)
Bulgarian: карто́ф m (kartóf)
Burmese: အာလူး (my) (alu:)
Buryat: түмһэн (tümhen)
Catalan: patata (ca) f, creïlla (ca) f (Valencia)
Chamicuro: ma'kona
Chechen: картол (kartol)
Cherokee: ᏄᎾ (nuna)
Chickasaw: ahi'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 薯仔 (syu⁴ zai²), 馬鈴薯, 马铃薯 (maa⁵ ling⁴ syu⁴)

Mandarin: (PRC, means "peanut" in Taiwan) 土豆 (zh) (tǔdòu), 馬鈴薯 (zh), 马铃薯 (zh) (mǎlíngshǔ), 洋芋 (zh) (yáng'yǜ)

Min Dong: 番囝薯 (huăng-giāng-sṳ̀)

Min Nan: 馬鈴薯 (zh-min-nan) (má-lêng-chî), 蕳砃 (kan-tan), 蕳砃薯 (kan-tan-chî)

Wu: 洋山芋 (hhian se hhy)
Chinook Jargon: wapato
Chuvash: ҫӗр улми (śĕr ulmi), паранка (paranka)
Cornish: aval dor m, patatysen f, tetti m
Corsican: pomu (co) m
Crimean Tatar: qartop
Czech: brambor (cs) m, brambora (cs) f
Danish: kartoffel (da) c
Dutch: aardappel (nl) f, pieper (nl) m, patat (nl) f
Elfdalian: pära f
Erzya: модамарь (modamarʹ)
Esperanto: terpomo (eo)
Estonian: kartul (et)
Faroese: epli n, epl n
Finnish: peruna (fi), pottu (fi)
French: pomme de terre (fr) f, patate (fr) f (informal)
Galician: pataca (gl) f
Georgian: კარტოფილი (ḳarṭopili)
German: Kartoffel (de) f, Erdapfel (de) m (Southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria), Grumbeere f (Southwestern Germany), Erdbirne (de) f, Grundbirne (de) f, Bramburi f (Austria)
Alemannic German: Härdöpfel m, Herdapfel m

Central Franconian: Ääpel m
Greek: πατάτα (el) f (patáta)
Greenlandic: naatsiiat
Guaraní: yvy'a
Gujarati: બટાટો m (baṭāṭo)
Hebrew: תַּפּוּחַ אֲדָמָה‏‎ (he) m (tapuákh adamá)
Hiligaynon: patatas
Hindi: आलू (hi) m (ālū), आलु (hi) m (ālu)
Hungarian: burgonya (hu), krumpli (hu)
Icelandic: kartafla (is) f, (rare) jarðepli (is) n
Ido: terpomo (io), potato (io)
Inari Sami: potás
Indonesian: kentang (id)
Irish: práta (ga) f, fata (ga) m
Italian: patata (it) f
Japanese: じゃがいも (ja) (jagaimó), 馬鈴薯 (ja) (ばれいしょ, bareisho)
Kalmyk: боднцг (bodntsg)
Kannada: ಆಲೂಗಡ್ಡೆ (kn) (ālūgaḍḍe)
Karachay-Balkar: гардош (gardoş), картоф (kartof)
Kashubian: bùlwa f
Kazakh: картоп (kk) (kartop)
Khakas: яблах (yablax)
Khmer: ដំឡូង (km) (dɑmloong)
Konkani: आळूं (āḷūṁ)
Korean: 감자 (ko) (gamja), (Jeju) 지실 (ko) (jisil)
Kumyk: картоп (kartop)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kartol (ku) f, qompîr (ku) f
Kyrgyz: картөшкө (ky) (kartöşkö)
Lao: ມັນຝະລັ່ງ (lo) (man fa lang)
Latgalian: buļbe f
Latin: patata f
Latvian: kartupelis m, tupenis m (dialectism), rācenis (lv) m (dialectism), pampalis m (dialectism)
Limburgish: aerpel (li) m

Lithuanian: bulvė (lt) f
Lojban: patlu
Lombard: pòm da tèra f
Low German:
German Low German: Kantüffel (nds) f, Kortüffel f
Luhya: silasi
Luxembourgish: Gromper (lb) f
Macedonian: компир m (kompir)
Malagasy: ovy (mg)
Malay: kentang
Malayalam: ഉരുളക്കിഴങ്ങ് (uruḷakkiḻaṅṅ)
Maltese: patata f
Manx: praase m
Maori: parareka, taewa, rīwai, kāpana
Marathi: बटाटा m (baṭāṭā)
Mobilian: ahé
Mongolian: төмс (mn) (töms), ᠲᠥᠮᠦᠰᠦ (tömüsü)
Nahuatl: camohtli (nah)
Navajo: nímasii
Norman: patate f (Guernsey, Jersey)
Northern Sami: buđeita, buđet
Norwegian:
Bokmål: potet (no) m

Nynorsk: potet m, f
Occitan: trufa (oc) f, patana (oc) f
Oriya: ଆଳୁ (āḷu)
Osage: tóoska
Ossetian: картоф (kartof)
Pashto: کچالو‏‎ m pl (kačālú), الو‏‎ (ps) m (alú)
Persian: سیب‌زمینی‏‎ (fa) (sib-zamini)
Picard: pétote f, peu'n tierre f
Polish: ziemniak (pl) m, kartofel (pl) m, pyra (pl) f
Portuguese: batata (pt) f
Punjabi: ਆਲੂ (pa) (ālū)
Quechua: papa
Rohingya: alu, aalu
Romanian: cartof (ro) m, barabulă (ro) f (Moldova)
Romansch: tartuffel m, truffel m, hardefel m, tiffel m, ardöffel m, mailinterra f
Russian: карто́фель (ru) m (kartófelʹ), карто́шка (ru) f (kartóška) (colloquial)
Rusyn: бандурка f (bandurka)
Saanich: sqewθ
Samoan: pateta
Samogitian: bolbė f
Sanskrit: आलुकम् (sa) n (ālukam)
Scots: pitattie
Scottish Gaelic: buntàta m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кромпир m (Bosnian, Serbian), крумпир m (Croatian)

Roman: krompir (sh) m (Bosnian, Serbian), krumpir (sh) (Croatian)
Silesian: kartofel m
Sindhi: پٽاٽو‏‎ m (paṯaṯo)
Sinhalese: අල (si) (ala)
Skolt Sami: pååttaǩ
Slovak: zemiak (sk) m
Slovene: krompir (sl) m
Spanish: patata (es) f (Spain), papa (es) f (Latin America, Southern Spain and Canary Islands)
Swahili: kiazi (sw), kiazi ulaya
Swedish: potatis (sv) c, potät (sv) c, jordäpple (sv) n, pära c, pantoffel (sv) c, plugg (sv) c (strongly colloquial slang)
Tagalog: patatas
Tajik: себзаминӣ (tg) (sebzaminī)
Tamil: ஒருமை (ta) (orumai)
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Tatar: бәрәңге (tt) (bäräñge)
Telugu: ఆలుగడ్డ (te) (ālugaḍḍa), ఉర్లగడ్డ (te) (urlagaḍḍa), బంగాళాదుంప (te) (baṃgāḷāduṃpa)
Tetum: fehuk-ropa, fehuk-malae, fehuk-midar
Thai: มันฝรั่ง (th) (man-fà-ràng)
Tibetan: ཞོ་ཁོག (zho khog)
Tongan: pateta
Turkish: patates (tr), yeryumru, yerkök, yerelması (tr) (rare in this sense)
Turkmen: kartoşka
Ukrainian: карто́пля (uk) f (kartóplja), бу́льба (uk) f (búlʹba), барабо́ля (uk) f (barabólja)
Urdu: آلو‏‎ (ur) m (ālū, ālu)
Uyghur: ياڭيۇ‏‎ (yangyu)
Uzbek: kartoshka (uz)
Venetian: tartùfola (vec) m, pomo de tèra (vec) m, patata f
Vietnamese: khoai tây (vi)
Vilamovian: aorpuł m
Volapük: pötet (vo), (Solanum tuberosum) pötetaplan
Votic: maamuna
Walloon: crompire (wa) f, canada (wa) m, truke (wa) f, petote (wa) f, cartoxhe f
Welsh: taten (cy) f
West Frisian: ierappel
White Hmong: qos yaj ywv
Yakut: хортуоппуй (xortuoppuy)
Yiddish: קאַרטאָפֿל‏‎ m, f (kartofl), בולבע‏‎ f (bulbe)
Yup'ik: patitussaaq, kantuuvvilaq
Zulu: izambane (zu) class 5/6

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