potato

English

Potato and cross-section.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/, [pʰə̥ˈtʰeɪtʰəʊ]

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• enPR: pə-tāʹtō, IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/, [pʰə̥ˈtʰeɪɾoʊ], [pʰə̥ˈtʰeɪɾə]

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• Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

Noun

potato (plural potatoes)

1. A plant tuber, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe.
   • 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 213:

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2. (informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
3. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
4. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
5. (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (plant): spud (slang), tater (slang)
• (vegetable): earthapple (rare)

Derived terms

• air potato, air-potato ()
• almond potato
• Amandine potato
• Anna potatoes
• apple potato bread
• baby potato
• baked potato
• baking potato
• bastard potato
• Bengal potatoes
• Bintje potato
• black potato
• blue potato
• boiling potato
• Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar
• Brazilian potato tree ()
• Burbank potato, Burbank Russet potato
• Canada potato
• Canarian wrinkly potatoes
• Caribe potato (Solanum tuberosum)
• Carolina potato (Solanum tuberosum)
• chat potatoes
• chef's potato
• Chilean potato-tree, Chilean potato vine ()
• Chinese potato ()
• clean potato
• cold-potato routing
• coleus potato
• Colorado potato beetle
• couch potato
• Cree potato
• Delmonico potato
• duchess potatoes, duchesse potatoes
• duck potato ()
• false potato beetle ()
• fauxtato
• fingerling potato
• finger potato
• frafra potato
• French-fried potatoes
• giant potato creeper
• glasshouse and potato aphid
• Greenfield potatoes
• Hausa potato
• hog potato
• hog's potato
• home-fried potatoes
• hot potato
• Idaho potato
• Indian potato ()
• Irish potato
• Irish potato bread
• Irish Potato Famine
• jacket potato
• Japanese potato (Colocasia antiquorum)
• Jersey Royal potatoes
• Jerusalem potato
• little potato
• Livingstone potato
• long white potato
• low-starch potato
• Lyonnaise potatoes
• Madagascar potato ()
• mashed potato, mashed potatoes
• meat and potatoes
• meat and potato pie
• Mexican potato
• mouse potato
• Mr. Potato Head
• native potato
• new potato
• O'Brien potatoes
• oca potato
• one potato, two potato
• pineapple potato
• potater
• potato aphid
• potato apple, potato-apple
• potato aucuba mosaic virus
• potato badger
• potato-ball
• potato bean, potato-bean
• potato beetle, potato-beetle
• potato black ringspot virus
• potato blight
• potato blood agar
• potato-bogle
• potato-box
• potato bread
• potato bug, potato-bug
• potato cake, potato-cake
• potato cannon
• potato chips
• potato clay
• potato creeper
• potato crisps
• potato curl
• potato cyst
• potato cyst nematode
• potato deforming mosaic virus
• potato dextrose agar
• potato dextrose broth
• potato disease
• potato dumpling
• potatoe
• potato-eater
• potato-eel
• potatoes and point
• potatoey
• potato-eye
• potato failure
• potato family
• potato famine
• potato farls
• potato fern
• potato finger
• potato flake
• potato flour
• potato fly
• potato-fly
• potato fork
• potato fungus
• potato grant
• potato gun
• potato-headed
• potato hook
• potato-jaw
• potato kugel
• potato late blight
• potato latent virus
• potato latke
• potato leafhopper
• potato leaf roll virus, potato leafroll virus
• potato lectin
• potatoless
• potato-loaf
• potato masher, potato-masher
• potato mildew
• potato-mill
• potato mold, potato mould
• potato mop-top virus
• potato mosaic
• potato moth
• potato-mouth
• potato-mouthed
• potato murrain
• potato nose, potato-nose
• potato nuggets
• potato oat
• potato of Canada
• potato oil
• potato onion
• potato pancake
• potato paradox
• potato patch
• potato peel
• potato peeler, potato-peeler
• potato peelings
• potato pen
• potato pie
• potato pit
• potato plant
• potato pretender
• potato psyllid
• potato pudding
• potato puff
• potato race
• potato ricer
• potato ring, potato-ring
• potato-root
• potato root nematode
• potato rot
• potato rot nematode
• potato rugose mosaic
• potato salad
• potato scab
• potato scab bacteria
• potato scone
• potato-scoop
• potato set
• potato-shop
• potato-sick
• potato spindle tuber viroid
• potato spirit, potato-spirit
• potato split-worm
• potato-spraying
• potato-stalk weevil
• potato starch
• potato stem mottle
• potato stick
• potato straw
• potato sugar
• potato trap, potato-trap
• potato tree, potato-tree
• potato tuber moth
• potato tuber nematode
• potato tuberworm
• potato tumor, potato tumour
• potato vine
• Potato virus X
• Potato War
• potato wart
• potato wart fungus
• potato weevil
• potato whisky
• potato-woman
• potato worm
• potato yam
• potato yellow dwarf
• potato yellow dwarf virus, potato yellow-dwarf virus
• potato yellowing virus
• potato yellow mosaic virus
• potato yellow vein virus
• potayto, potahto
• prairie potato
• Price's potato-bean
• prickly potato
• purple Peruvian potato
• purple potato
• red potato
• red round potato
• red-skinned potato
• Russet Burbank potato
• russet potato
• salt potatoes
• scalloped potatoes
• sea potato
• seaside potato
• seed potato
• shoestring potatoes
• small potato, small potatoes, small potatoes and a few in a hill, small potatoes and a few in the hill
• smashed potatoes
• Spanish potato
• starchy potato
• Sudan potato
• swamp potato
• sweet potato
• tater
• Telinga potato
• telingo potato
• ten-lined potato beetle
• Uruguay potato
• Uruguay potato vine
• Virginia potato, Virginian potato
• Vivaldi potato
• waxy potato
• white potato
• white potato vine
• white round potato
• wild potato
• wild potato mosaic virus
• wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine
• wild sweet potato
• yellow dwarf of potato
• Yellow Finnish potato
• Yellow Finn potato
• yellow potato
• Yukon Gold potato
• Zulu potato, Zulu round potato

 

Translations

plant tuber eaten as starchy vegetable

• Abkhaz: акартош (akʼartʼoŝ)
• Adyghe: чӏырыкӏу (ĉʼərəkʷʼu)
• 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 (bərəñge), 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)
• Cherokee: ᏄᎾ (nuna)
• Chickasaw: ahi'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 薯仔 (syu⁴ zai²), 馬鈴薯／马铃薯 (maa⁵ ling⁴ syu⁴), 马铃薯 (maa⁵ ling⁴ syu⁴) (formal)

  Dungan: ёнйү (i͡onyü), йүдү (yüdü)

  Hakka: 馬鈴薯／马铃薯, 马铃薯 (mâ-làng-sù)

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

  Min Dong: 番囝薯 (huăng-giāng-sṳ̀)

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

  Wu: 洋山芋 (hhian se hhy)

• Chinook Jargon: wapato
• Chuvash: ҫӗр улми (śĕr ulmi), паранка (parank̬a)
• 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 (modamaŕ)
• 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, 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
• 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)
• 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)
• Khakas: яблах (yablax)
• Khmer: ដំឡូង (km) (dɑmloung)
• 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)
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• Limburgish: aerpel (li) m
• Lithuanian: bulvė (lt) f
• 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
• Nahuatl: camohtli (nah)
• Navajo: nímasii
• Norman: patate f (Guernsey, Jersey)
• Northern Sami: buđeita, buđet
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: potet (no) m

  Nynorsk: potet m or f

• Occitan: trufa (oc) f, patana (oc) f
• Oriya: ଆଳୁ (aḷu)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 (qortuoppuy)
• Yiddish: קאַרטאָפֿל m or f (kartofl), בולבע f (bulbe)
• Yup'ik: patitussaaq, kantuuvvilaq
• Zhuang: majlingzsuz
• Zulu: izambane (zu) class 5/6

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Anagrams

• patoot

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English potato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈta.to/, /pɔˈta.tɔ/

Noun

potato (plural potati)

1. potato

   Synonym: terpomo

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Italian

Verb

1. past participle of potare

Anagrams

• optato

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /poːˈtaː.toː/, [poːˈt̪äːt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /poˈta.to/, [poˈt̪äːt̪o]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) pōtātō

1. second-person singular future active imperative of pōtō
2. third-person singular future active imperative of pōtō