sweet potato

English

Noun

sweet potato (plural sweet potatoes)

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

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)

Derived terms

Terms derived from sweet potato

• 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 syu^4-2)

  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, Philippines) 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
• Central Dusun: woi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 番薯 (faan¹ syu^4-2)

  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), ტკბილი კარტოფილი (ṭḳbili ḳarṭopili)
• 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, práta Spáinneach m
• 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:

  Cyrillic: батат m

  Roman: 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)
• Swahili: kiazi kitamu
• Swedish: sötpotatis (sv), batat (sv)
• Tagal Murut: pallavan
• Tagalog: kamote (tl)
• Tamil: வத்தாளைக் கிழங்கு (vattāḷaik kiḻaṅku)
• Telugu: చిలగడదుంప (te) (cilagaḍaduṃpa)
• Thai: มันเทศ (man-têet)
• 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
• Wolof: pataas (wo)

yam — see yam

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 Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

See also

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

References

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