sweet potato

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Noun

sweet potatoes (the sweet potato on the far right is peeled)

sweet potato ‎(plural sweet potatoes)

1. A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
2. The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.

Synonyms

• (tropical perennial vine): batata, Ipomoea
• (tuber): yam, camote (US)
• kumara (New Zealand)

See also

• (tuber): yam (US) (the moist-fleshed sweet potato).

Derived terms

Derived terms

sweet-potato ring rot sweet potato vine sweet-potato whitefly

tropical sweet potato white-fleshed sweet potato white sweet potato

Translations

vine

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: batata (ca) f, moniatera f moniato (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 番薯 ‎(faan¹ syu⁴⁻²)

  Mandarin: 甘薯 (zh) ‎(gānshǔ), 白薯 (zh) ‎(báishǔ), 紅薯 (zh), 红薯 (zh) ‎(hóngshǔ), 番薯 (zh) ‎(fānshǔ), 山芋 (zh) ‎(shānyù), 番芋 ‎(fānyù), 地瓜 (zh) ‎(dìguā), 紅苕 (zh), 红苕 (zh) ‎(hóngsháo), 線苕, 线苕 ‎(xiànsháo), 金薯 ‎(jīnshǔ), 甜薯 ‎(tiánshǔ), 朱薯 ‎(zhūshǔ), 玉枕薯 ‎(yùzhěnshǔ)

• Danish: batat c, sød kartoffel c
• Dutch: zoete aardappel (nl) m
• Finnish: bataatti (fi)
• French: patate douce (fr) f, patate (fr) f
• German: Süßkartoffel f, Batate (de) f

• Greek: γλυκοπατάτα (el) f ‎(glykopatáta)
• Hungarian: édesburgonya (hu)
• Italian: patata dolce f, patata americana f, batata (it) f
• Korean: 고구마 (ko) ‎(goguma)
• Polish: wilec ziemniaczany m
• Portuguese: batata-doce (pt) f
• Romanian: batat (ro) m
• Spanish: (Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) batata (es) f, (Cuba, Uruguay) boniato (es) m, (Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Western Argentina) camote (es) m
• Tagalog: kamote (tl)

tuber

• Arabic: بَطَاطَا حُلْوَة f ‎(baṭāṭā ḥulwa)

  Egyptian Arabic: بطاطة f pl ‎(baṭaṭa)

• Armenian: բատատ ‎(batat), քաղցր կարտոֆիլ ‎(kʿałcʿr kartofil)
• Aymara: apichu
• Burmese: ကန်စွန်းဥ (my) ‎(kancwan:u.)
• Catalan: batata (ca) f, moniato (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 番薯 ‎(faan¹ syu⁴⁻²)

  Mandarin: 甘薯 (zh) ‎(gānshǔ), 白薯 (zh) ‎(báishǔ), 紅薯 (zh), 红薯 (zh) ‎(hóngshǔ), 番薯 (zh) ‎(fānshǔ), 山芋 (zh) ‎(shānyù), 番芋 ‎(fānyù), 地瓜 (zh) ‎(dìguā), 紅苕 (zh), 红苕 (zh) ‎(hóngsháo), 線苕, 线苕 ‎(xiànsháo), 金薯 ‎(jīnshǔ), 甜薯 ‎(tiánshǔ), 朱薯 ‎(zhūshǔ), 玉枕薯 ‎(yùzhěnshǔ)

  Min Nan: han-chî

• Czech: povijnice batátová
• Danish: batat c, sød kartoffel c
• Dutch: zoete aardappel (nl), bataat (nl)
• Esperanto: batato
• Fijian: kumala
• Finnish: bataatti (fi)
• French: patate douce (fr) f, patate (fr) f
• Georgian: ბატატი ‎(baṭaṭi)
• German: Süßkartoffel f
• Greek: γλυκοπατάτα (el) f ‎(glykopatáta)
• Guaraní: jety
• Gujarati: શકરિયું ‎(śakariyū̃)
• Haitian Creole: patat
• Hawaiian: ʻuala
• Hebrew: בטטה (he)
• Hindi: शकरकन्द (hi) m ‎(śakarkand)
• Hungarian: édesburgonya (hu)
• Icelandic: sætar kartöflur
• Ido: patato (io)
• Ilocano: kamote
• Indonesian: ubi jalar (id)
• Irish: práta milis
• Italian: patata dolce f, patata americana f, batata (it) f
• Japanese: 薩摩芋 (ja) ‎(サツマイモ, satsumaimo), 甘藷 ‎(かんしょ, kansho)
• Kapampangan: kamuti

• Khmer: ដំឡូងជ្វា ‎(dɑmloong jvie)
• Korean: 고구마 (ko) ‎(goguma)
• Lao: ມັນເທດ ‎(man thēt), ມັນດ້າງ (lo) ‎(man dāng)
• Latvian: batāte (lv) f
• Lithuanian: batatas (lt)
• Malay: ubi keledek, keledek
• Malayalam: മധുരക്കിഴങ്ങ് (ml) ‎(madhurakkiḻaṅṅ)
• Maori: kūmara
• Mongolian: амтат тѳмс ‎(amtat tѳms)
• Nahuatl: camohtli (nah)
• Navajo: nahooyéí, nímasii łikaní
• Norwegian: søtpotet
• Okinawan: 唐芋 ‎(とーっんむ, tō'nmu)
• Polish: batat (pl) m
• Portuguese: batata-doce (pt) f
• Quechua: kumar
• Rapa Nui: kuma porá
• Romanian: batat (ro) m
• Russian: бата́т (ru) m ‎(batát), сла́дкий карто́фель m ‎(sládkij kartófelʹ)
• Rwanda-Rundi: ikijumba
• Sebop: uvi' jup
• Serbo-Croatian: batat m
• Slovak: povojník batátový m
• Spanish: batata (es) f (Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela), boniato (es) m (Cuba, Uruguay), camote (es) m (Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Western Argentina)
• Swedish: sötpotatis (sv), batat (sv)
• Tagal Murut: pallavan
• Tagalog: kamote (tl)
• Tamil: வத்தாளைக் கிழங்கு ‎(vattāḷaik kiḻaṅku)
• Telugu: చిలగడదుంప (te) ‎(cilagaḍaduṃpa)
• Thai: มันเทศ ‎(mantêt)
• Tongan: kumala
• Turkish: tatlı patates
• Ukrainian: батат m ‎(batat)
• Urapmin: wan
• Urdu: شكرقندى f ‎(shakarqandi)
• Vietnamese: khoai lang (vi)
• Welsh: tatws melys (cy) f pl

yam — see yam

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Translations to be checked

• Isthmus Zapotec: ^{(please verify)} gu

External links

• Ipomoea batatas on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Ipomoea batatas
• Dioscorea on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Dioscorea