batata

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

batata (plural batatas)

1. sweet potato (plant)
2. sweet potato (foodstuff)

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], 2007 April
• “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, 2025.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈta.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

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 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
• → Makhuwa: patata
• → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
  • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
• → Sindhi: پٽاٽو
• → Swahili: mbatata

Further reading

• “batata”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “batata”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno batata. Compare patata from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈtata/ [baˈt̪a.t̪a]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

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

Noun

batata f (plural batatas)

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

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

Further reading

• “batata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Taíno

Noun

batata ?

1. sweet potato

Descendants

• Portuguese: batata
  • → Gujarati: બટાટો (baṭāṭo)
  • → Itsekiri: imatátá, matátá
  • → Makhuwa: patata
  • → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
    • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
  • → Sindhi: پٽاٽو
  • → Swahili: mbatata
• Spanish: batata, patata