taro

See also tarò, and ţaro

English

Etymology

Maori taro, in turn from Proto-Polynesian *talo.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtærəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ærəʊ
• Homophone: tarot

Noun

taro (usually uncountable; plural taros)

Wikipedia

1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
3. Food from a taro plant.

Synonyms

• (Colocasia esculenta): colocasia, elephant ears
• (similar plants):
• (edible portion): dasheen

Hyponyms

• (similar plants): giant taro, Alocasia and species, especially Alocasia macrorrhizos; swamp taro, Cyrtosperma merkusii; Xanthosoma sagittifolium

Derived terms

• taro flying frog
• giant taro
• swamp taro
• giant swamp taro
• metallic taro
• Chinese taro/chinese taro

Translations

Colocasia esculenta

• Abau: how
• Amaimon: mamo
• Ambulas: maye
• Aneme Wake: mína
• Angaataha: kaatɨ-́há
• Angor: mao
• Ansus: barimu
• Arabic: قلقاس (ar) (qulqas) m pl

  Egyptian Arabic: قلقلس (ʔulʔas) m pl

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 芋頭, simpl. 芋头 (yùtóu)

  Min Nan: 芋仔 (ō·-á)

• Finnish: taaro (fi)
• German: Taro (de) m
• Hawaiian: kalo

• Indonesian: keladi (id)
• Italian: colocasia (it) f
• Japanese: 里芋 (ja) (さといも, satoimo), サトイモ (ja) (satoimo)
• Macedonian: таро (mk) (táro) n
• Maori: taro (mi)
• Morori: mber
• Polish: taro (pl) n
• Russian: таро (ru) (táro) n (indeclinable)
• Samoan: talo (sm)
• Spanish: taro m, achín m (Colombia), ñampí m (Costa Rica), ñame m (Spain's Canary Islands), ocumo chino m (Venezuela), papa china f (Colombia, Ecuador), pituca f (Peru), yautía coco f (Dominican Republic)
• Tahitian: taro
• Tongan: talo (to)
• Vietnamese: khoai môn (vi)

food from the taro plant

• Arabic: قلقاس (ar) (qulqas) m pl

  Egyptian Arabic: قلقلس (ʔulʔas) m pl

• Finnish: taaro (fi)
• Hawaiian: kalo
• Italian: colocasia (it) f
• Macedonian: таро (mk) (taro) n
• Maori: taro (mi)
• Samoan: talo (sm)

• Spanish: taro m, tubérculo de achín m (Colombia), ñampí m (Costa Rica), ñame m (Spain's Canary Islands), ocumo chino m (Venezuela), papa china f (Colombia, Ecuador), pituca f (Peru), yautía coco f (Dominican Republic)
• Tahitian: taro
• Thai: เผือก (th) (phueak)
• Tongan: talo (to)
• Turkish: gölevez, kolokas

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: Taro, Wasserbrotwurzel

See also

• eddo

Anagrams

• rato, RATO
• rota

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Hiri Motu

Noun

taro

1. taro

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Italian

Verb

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarare

Anagrams

• arto, atro, rota

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Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo

Noun

taro

1. taro
2. bread

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Spanish

Verb

taro (infinitive tarar)

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tarar.

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Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo

Noun

taro

1. taro

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

English taro

Noun

taro

1. The taro plant.
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics^[1], ISBN 0-8248-1672-2, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA: [ˈtarɔ]
• (South Wales) IPA: [ˈtɑːrɔ]

Verb

taro (stem traw–)

1. to strike, hit

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present/future	trawaf	trewi	tery, trawa	trawn	trewch	trawant	trewir
imperfect/conditional	trawn	trawit	trawai	trawem	trawech	trawent	trewid
past	trewais	trewaist	trawodd	trawsom	trawsoch	trawsant	trawyd
pluperfect	trawswn	trawsit	trawsai	trawsem	trawsech	trawsent	trawsid, trewsid
subjunctive	trawyf	trewych	trawo	trawom	trawoch	trawont	trawer
imperative	—	taro	trawed	trawn	trewch	trawent	trawer
verbal noun	taro
verbal adjectives	trawedig trawadwy

Verb

taro

1. second-person singular imperative of taro