batata

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata. Doublet of potato.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈtɑ.tə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

batata (plural batatas)

1. sweet potato (plant)
2. sweet potato (foodstuff)
   • 2007 December 26, Julia Moskin, “A Celebration of the New Year Ushers in a Bit of Japan”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     She uses broccoli rabe instead of aka takana (spicy mustard greens), shops in the Caribbean markets of her Washington Heights neighborhood for batatas rather than Japanese satsumaimo (yellow sweet potatoes), and has learned to love the local mofongo, the Dominican version of mashed plantains with lots of garlic.

Derived terms

• batata vada

Anagrams

• Tabata

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈta.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈta.ta]

Noun

batata f (plural batates)

1. sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas)

   Synonyms: moniatera, moniato

2. sweet potato tuber

   Synonym: moniato

Coordinate terms

• patata

Further reading

• “batata”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “batata” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “batata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈtata/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ba‧ta‧ta

Adjective

batata (accusative singular batatan, plural batataj, accusative plural batatajn)

1. singular present passive participle of bati

Ido

Verb

batata

1. present passive participle of batar

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈta.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: ba‧tà‧ta

Noun

batata f (plural batate)

1. sweet potato

   Synonyms: patata americana, patata dolce

Lingala

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bàtààtá.

Noun

batata class 2

1. plural of tata

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish batata and Portuguese batata and Kabuverdianu batata.

The Spanish word comes from Taíno batata.

Noun

batata

1. potato

Ponosakan

Etymology

From Manado Malay batata, from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata.

Noun

batata

1. sweet potato

Portuguese

batatas

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈta.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈta.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈta.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈta.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta‧ta

Noun

batata f (plural batatas)

1. potato

Derived terms

• batata frita
• batata-da-terra
• batata-doce
• batata-palha
• batatal
• batateiro
• batatinha

Descendants

• → Gujarati: બટાટો (baṭāṭo)
• → Itsekiri: imatátá, matátá
• → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟಿ (baṭāṭi)
• → Konkani: बटाट (baṭāṭ)
• → Makhuwa: patata
• → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
  • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
    • → Tulu: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
• → Sinhalese: බතල (batala)
• → Swahili: mbatata

Further reading

• “batata”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “batata”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “batata”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “batata”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno batata. Doublet of patata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈtata/ [baˈt̪a.t̪a]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ba‧ta‧ta

Noun

batata f (plural batatas)

1. (Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Canary Islands, parts of Argentina) sweet potato

   Synonyms: (Cuba, Uruguay, Spain) boniato, (Mexico, Central America, Chile, Peru) camote, chaco, batata dulce, papa dulce, (Spain) patata dulce

Descendants

• → Portuguese: batata
  • → Gujarati: બટાટો (baṭāṭo)
  • → Itsekiri: imatátá, matátá
  • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟಿ (baṭāṭi)
  • → Konkani: बटाट (baṭāṭ)
  • → Makhuwa: patata
  • → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
    • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
      • → Tulu: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
  • → Sinhalese: බතල (batala)
  • → Swahili: mbatata

Further reading

• “batata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Taíno

Noun

batata ?

1. sweet potato

Descendants

• → Spanish: batata
  • → Portuguese: batata
    • → Gujarati: બટાટો (baṭāṭo)
    • → Itsekiri: imatátá, matátá
    • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟಿ (baṭāṭi)
    • → Konkani: बटाट (baṭāṭ)
    • → Makhuwa: patata
    • → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
      • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
        • → Tulu: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
    • → Sinhalese: බතල (batala)
    • → Swahili: mbatata
• → Spanish: patata