potato

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Alternative formsEdit

potatoe (obsolete)
p’tater (dialectal)

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/, [pə̥ˈtʰeɪtʰəʊ]
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(General American) enPR: pə-tāʹtō, IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/, [pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾoʊ], [pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾə]
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Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

NounEdit

potato (plural potatoes)

The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
- 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 213:
  Potatoes were introduced to Ireland in 1590 after being brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadores from their place of origin in the South American Andes.
(informal, Britain) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
Used as a metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
- 1757, [Tobias George Smollett], The Reprisal: Or, The Tars of Old England. […], London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], OCLC 219939191, Act I, scene ii, page 8:
  I don't value Monſieur de Champignon a rotten potatoe;
1. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
2. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
3. (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.
  - 2017 March 17, Steven Messner, “Overwatch community donates PC parts to fan who could barely run it at 800x600”, in PC Gamer‎^[1]:
    When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps.
  - 2019 September 22, Benjamin Burns, “Meet the people making music with Mega Drives, Game Boys and gAtaris”, in Eurogamer‎^[2]:
    If you want to have a go right now, then Famitracker will let you compose songs for the NES and it'll run on a Windows-operated potato.

SynonymsEdit

(plant): p'tater (dialectal), spud (slang), tater (Britain, US, informal), tatie (Scotland, Cumbria, dialect), tator (eye dialect)
(vegetable): earthapple (rare), murphy, bog orange (obsolete slang), Irish fruit (obsolete slang)

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

plant tuber eaten as starchy vegetable

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

Moroccan Arabic: بطاطا‎ f (bṭāṭa, baṭāṭa)
Aragonese: trunfa f
Armenian: կարտոֆիլ (hy) (kartofil)
Aromanian: combar (roa-rup), pãpati, pãtatã f, curcaci, cumpir
Assamese: আলু (alu)
Asturian: pataca f
Aymara: ch'uqi
Azerbaijani: kartof (az)
Bashkir: бәрәңге (bäräñge), картуф (kartuf)
Basque: patata (eu), lursagar
Bavarian: Eadäpfe, gartufela, kartufula, eapfl, erdepfl
Belarusian: бу́льба (be) f (búlʹba)
Bengali: আলু (alu)
Breton: aval-douar (br)
Bulgarian: карто́ф m (kartóf)
Burmese: အာလူး (my) (alu:)
Buryat: түмһэн (tümhen)
Catalan: patata (ca) f
Valencian: creïlla (ca) f
Central Franconian: Grumber; Ärpel, Grompere, Schrumpern (Eifel), Grumbeer (Hunsrückisch), Krombier (Koblenz), Doffel, Duffel (Sieger), Äpel, Erdäpel (Kölsch)
Chamicuro: ma'kona
Chechen: картол (kartol), картог (kartog)
Cherokee: ᏄᎾ (nuna)
Chickasaw: ahi'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 薯仔 (syu⁴ zai²), 馬鈴薯, 马铃薯 (maa⁵ ling⁴ syu⁴) (formal)

Dungan: ёнйү (i͡onyü), йүдү (yüdü)

Hakka: 馬鈴薯, 马铃薯 (mâ-làng-sù)

Mandarin: 土豆 (zh) (tǔdòu) (Mainland), 馬鈴薯 (zh), 马铃薯 (zh) (mǎlíngshǔ), 洋芋 (zh) (yángyù)

Min Dong: 番囝薯 (huăng-giāng-sṳ̀)

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

Wu: 洋山芋 (hhian se hhy)
Chinook Jargon: wapato
Chuvash: ҫӗр улми (śĕr ulmi), паранка (paranka)
Cimbrian: pataata, patát, petate
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
East Central German: Arber, Ardeppel
Elfdalian: pära f
Erzya: модамарь (modamarʹ)
Esperanto: terpomo (eo)
Estonian: kartul (et)
Faroese: epli (fo) n, epl n
Finnish: peruna (fi), pottu (fi) (informal)
French: pomme de terre (fr) f, patate (fr) f (informal)
Galician: pataca (gl) f, patoa f, baloca f, castaña da terra 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, artuffula (Carcoforo), Grandbere, Guml, Gummle, Grumbeer, Häpärä, Hääbi, Herdäpfel, Herdöpfel, Grumpre, Grumpara, Grumbira, Härpfl, häpfäl, Häärdepfel, héerfél, trifflu, trüffulu

Central Franconian: Ääpel m
Greek: πατάτα (el) f (patáta)
Greenlandic: naatsiiaq, kartoffeli, eertaasaq, issuusaq
Guaraní: yvy'a
Gujarati: બટાટો m (baṭāṭo)
Hebrew: תַּפּוּחַ אֲדָמָה‎ (he) m (tapuákh adamá), בּוּלְבּוּס‎ (he) m (bulbus) (flowery)
Hiligaynon: patatas
Hindi: आलू (hi) m (ālū), आलु (hi) m (ālu)
Hungarian: (more formal) burgonya (hu), (more informal) krumpli (hu)
Hunsrik: Kartoffel f, Grummbeer f
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), ポテト (poteto)
Jeju: 지슬 (jiseul)
Kalmyk: боднцг (bodntsg)
Kannada: ಆಲೂಗಡ್ಡೆ (kn) (ālūgaḍḍe)
Karachay-Balkar: гардош (gardoş), картоф (kartof)
Kashubian: bùlwa f
Kazakh: картоп (kk) (kartop), жералма (jeralma)
Khakas: яблах (yablax)
Khmer: ដំឡូង (km) (dɑmloung)
Konkani: आळूं (āḷūṁ)
Korean: 감자 (ko) (gamja), (Jeju) 지실 (ko) (jisil)
Kumyk: картоп (kartop)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: petat (ku), 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
Livonian: naggõrz
Lombard: pòm da tèra f
Low German:
German Low German: Kantüffel (nds) f, Kartuffel f, Kartüffel f, Kortüffel f
Luhya: silasi
Luxembourgish: Gromper (lb) f
Macedonian: компир m (kompir)
Malagasy: ovy (mg)
Malay: kentang
Malayalam: ഉരുളക്കിഴങ്ങ് (uruḷakkiḻaṅṅŭ)
Maltese: patata f
Manx: praase m
Maori: parareka, taewa, rīwai, kāpana
Marathi: बटाटा m (baṭāṭā)
Mobilian: ahé
Mongolian: төмс (mn) (töms), ᠲᠥᠮᠦᠰᠦ (tömüsü)
Mòcheno: ruab f
Nahuatl: camohtli (nah)
Navajo: nímasii
Norman: patate f (Guernsey, Jersey)
Northern Sami: buđeita, buđet
Norwegian:
Bokmål: potet (no) m

Nynorsk: potet m or f, jordeple n
Occitan: trufa (oc) f, patana (oc) f
Ojibwe: opin
Oriya: ଆଳୁ (aḷu)
Oromo: dinnicha
Osage: tóoska
Ossetian: картоф (kartof)
Pashto: کچالو‎ m pl (kačālú), الو‎ (ps) m (alú)
Pennsylvania German: Grumbeer f
Persian: سیب‌زمینی‎ (fa) (sib-zamini)
Picard: pétote f, peu'n tierre f
Plautdietsch: Ieedschock f
Polish: ziemniak (pl) m, kartofel (pl) m, pyra (pl) f (dialectism)
Portuguese: batata (pt) f
Punjabi: ਆਲੂ (pa) (ālū)
Quechua: papa
Rhine Franconian: Grumber, Grumbeer, Kadoffl, Kardoffel
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: банду́рка f (bandúrka)
Saanich: sqewθ
Samoan: pateta
Samogitian: bolbė f
Sanskrit: आलुकम् (sa) n (ālukam)
Scanian: pära c, potät c, pantoffel c, pantolla c
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
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kulka f
Spanish: patata (es) f (Spain), papa (es) f (Latin America, Southern Spain and Canary Islands)
Swabian: Bodabirra, Grombiere, Erdepfel, Aidepfl, Äbirre
Swahili: kiazi (sw), kiazi ulaya
Swedish: potatis (sv) c, potät (sv) c, jordäpple (sv) n, pära (sv) c, pantoffel (sv) c, plugg (sv) c (strongly colloquial slang)
Tagalog: patatas
Tajik: себзаминӣ (tg) (sebzaminī)
Tamil: ஒருமை (ta) (orumai)
Tashelhit: please add this translation if you can
Tatar: бәрәңге (tt) (bäräñge)
Telugu: ఆలుగడ్డ (te) (ālugaḍḍa), ఉర్లగడ్డ (te) (urlagaḍḍa), బంగాళాదుంప (te) (baṅgāḷādumpa)
Tetum: fehuk-ropa, fehuk-malae, fehuk-midar
Thai: มันฝรั่ง (th) (man-fà-ràng)
Tibetan: ཞོ་ཁོག (zho khog), ཞོག་གོག (zhog gog)
Tigrinya: ድንሽ (dənš)
Tongan: pateta
Turkish: patates (tr), yerelması (tr) (rare in this sense), (Cypriot) badadez, çisil
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 (wa) f
Welsh: taten (cy) f
West Frisian: ierappel
White Hmong: qos yaj ywv
Wolof: pombiteer
Yakut: хортуоппуй (xortuoppuy)
Yiddish: קאַרטאָפֿל‎ m or f (kartofl), בולבע‎ f (bulbe)
Yup'ik: patitussaaq, kantuuvvilaq
Zhuang: majlingzsuz
Zulu: izambane (zu) 5 or 6

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