sweet potato

See also: sweetpotato

English

Alternative forms

• sweetpotato

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈswiːt pəˈteɪtəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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

sweet potato (countable and uncountable, plural sweet potatoes)

1. A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
3. The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.
   • 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes‎^[1], Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 239:

     The sweet potato is the article referred to as potato by Shakespeare and other English writers, previous to the middle of the seventeenth century.

   • 2013, Sherri L. Smith, chapter 12, in Orleans, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, part 2 (Freesteader), page 116:

     I go back to the kitchen and find a knife, still smeared with sweet potato and bits of pheasant meat.

4. An ocarina.

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

• (tuber): satsumaimo

Meronyms

• (tuber): beta-carotene

Derived terms

• Cuban sweet potato
• Japanese sweet potato
• Okinawan sweet potato
• sweet-potatoey
• sweet-potato ring rot
• sweet potato vine
• sweet-potato whitefly
• tropical sweet potato
• white-fleshed sweet potato
• white sweet potato

Translations

vine

• Arabic: بَطَاطَا حُلْوَة f (baṭāṭā ḥulwa)
• Bikol Central: kamote (bcl)
• 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 / 红薯 (zh) (hóngshǔ), 番薯 (zh) (fānshǔ), 山芋 (zh) (shānyù), 番芋 (zh) (fānyù), 地瓜 (zh) (dìguā), 紅苕 / 红苕 (zh) (hóngsháo), 線苕 / 线苕 (xiànsháo), 金薯 (jīnshǔ), 甜薯 (tiánshǔ), 朱薯 (zhūshǔ), 玉枕薯 (yùzhěnshǔ)

• Danish: sød kartoffel c, sødkartoffel c, batat c (rare)
• Dutch: zoete aardappel (nl) m
• Esperanto: batato, patato (eo), dolĉa terpomo
• Finnish: bataatti (fi)
• French: patate douce (fr) f, patate (fr) f
• Galician: pataca doce (gl) f
• German: Süßkartoffel (de) 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: batat (pl) m, wilec ziemniaczany (pl) m
• Portuguese: batata-doce (pt) f
• Romanian: batat (ro) m
• Spanish: (Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) batata (es) f, (Spain, Cuba, Uruguay) boniato (es) m, (Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Western Argentina, Philippines) camote (es) m
• Tagalog: kamote (tl)
• Turkish: tatlı patates (tr)

tuber

• Arabic: بَطَاطَا حُلْوَة f (baṭāṭā ḥulwa), بَطَاطَا (ar) f (baṭāṭā), بَطَاطَة f (baṭāṭa)

  Egyptian Arabic: بطاطة f pl (baṭāṭa)

  Moroccan Arabic: بطاطا حلوة f (bṭāṭa ḥluwwa, baṭāṭa ḥluwwa)

• Armenian: բատատ (hy) (batat), քաղցր կարտոֆիլ (kʻaġcʻr kartofil)
• Assamese: মিঠা আলু (mitha alu)
• Atayal: ngahi
• Aymara: apichu
• Basque: patata gozoa
• Belarusian: бата́т m (batát), сало́дкая бу́льба f (salódkaja búlʹba)
• Bengali: মিষ্টি আলু (bn) (miśṭi alu)
• Bikol Central: kamote (bcl)
• Bislama: kumala
• Bouyei: sez, legsez
• Bulgarian: сла́дък карто́ф m (sládǎk kartóf), бата́т m (batát)
• Burmese: ကန်စွန်းဥ (my) (kancwan:u.)
• Catalan: batata (ca) f, moniato (ca) m
• Central Dusun: woi
• Cherokee: ᏄᎾ ᎤᏂᎦᎾᏍᏓ (nuna uniganasda)
• Cheyenne: ho'enoo'o
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 番薯 (faan¹ syu^4-2)

  Hokkien: han-chî

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

• Czech: povijnice batátová f
• Danish: sød kartoffel c, sødkartoffel c, batat c (rare)
• Dutch: zoete aardappel (nl), bataat (nl)
• Esperanto: batato
• Estonian: bataat (et)
• Faroese: søtur epli
• Fijian: kumala
• Finnish: bataatti (fi)
• French: patate douce (fr) f, patate (fr) f
• Galician: pataca doce (gl) f
• Georgian: ბატატი (baṭaṭi), ტკბილი კარტოფილი (ṭḳbili ḳarṭopili)
• German: Süßkartoffel (de) f
• Greek: γλυκοπατάτα (el) f (glykopatáta)
• Guaraní: jety
• Gujarati: શકરિયું (śakriyũ)
• Haitian Creole: patat
• Hawaiian: ʻuala
• Hebrew: בָּטָטָה (he) (batáta)
• Hindi: शकरकन्द (hi) m (śakarkand)
• Hungarian: édesburgonya (hu)
• Icelandic: sætar kartöflur
• Ido: patato (io)
• Ilocano: kamote
• Indonesian: ubi jalar (id), keledek (id)
• Irish: práta milis, práta Spáinneach m
• Italian: patata dolce f, patata americana f, batata (it) f
• Ivatan: wakay
• Japanese: 薩摩芋 (ja) (さつまいも, satsumaimo), サツマイモ (ja) (satsumaimo), 甘藷 (ja) (かんしょ, kansho)
• Jeju: 감저 (gamjeo)
• Jingpho: naisam
• Kapampangan: kamuti
• Kavalan: qawpiR
• Kazakh: батат (batat)
• Khmer: ដំឡូងជ្វា (dɑmloung cviə)
• Korean: 고구마 (ko) (goguma)
• Kyrgyz: батат (batat)
• Lao: ມັນເທດ (man thēt), ມັນດ້າງ (lo) (man dāng)
• Latvian: batāte (lv) f
• Lithuanian: batatas (lt)
• Macedonian: сладок компир m (sladok kompir)
• Malagasy: vomanga (mg)
• Malay: ubi keledek, keledek
• Malayalam: മധുരക്കിഴങ്ങ് (ml) (madhurakkiḻaṅṅŭ)
• Maltese: patata ħelwa f
• Manchu: ᠯᠠᡵᡥᡡᠨ (larhūn)
• Maori: kūmara, kūmera
• Mbyá Guaraní: jety
• Mongolian: амтат тѳмс (amtat töms)
• Nahuatl: camohtli (nah)
• Navajo: nahooyéí, nímasii łikaní, nímasii dinilkanígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søtpotet m

• Okinawan: 唐芋 (とーっんむ, tō'nmu)
• Persian: سیب‌زمینی شیرین (sib-zamini-ye širin)
• Polish: batat (pl) m
• Portuguese: batata-doce (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸ਼ਕਰਕੰਦੀ (pa) f (śakrakandī)
• Quechua: kumar, apichu (qu) (Cuzco-Collao, South Bolivia)
• Rapa Nui: kuma porá
• Romanian: batat (ro) m
• Russian: бата́т (ru) m (batát), сла́дкий карто́фель m (sládkij kartófelʹ), сла́дкая карто́шка f (sládkaja kartóška) (colloquial)
• Rwanda-Rundi: ikijumba
• Saisiyat: 'aewpir
• Sebop: uvi' jup
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: батат m

  Roman: batat m

• Shan: ႁူဝ်မၼ်းလႅင် (hǒ mán lěng)
• Sinhalese: බතල (batala)
• Slovak: povojník batátový m
• Slovene: batata f
• Southeast Ijo: kukunduku (Nembe)
• Spanish: batata (es) f (Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela), boniato (es) m (Spain, Cuba, Uruguay), camote (es) m (Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Western Argentina), apichu (es) m (Peru), chaco (es) m (Venezuela)
• Swahili: kiazi kitamu
• Swedish: sötpotatis (sv), batat (sv)
• Tagal Murut: pallavan
• Tagalog: kamote (tl)
• Tamil: வத்தாளைக் கிழங்கு (vattāḷaik kiḻaṅku)
• Telugu: చిలగడదుంప (te) (cilagaḍadumpa)
• Tetum: uhi
• Thai: มันเทศ (man-têet)
• Tibetan: གྲོ་མ (gro ma)
• Tongan: kumala
• Turkish: tatlı patates (tr)
• Tày: mằn bủng
• Ukrainian: бата́т m (batát), соло́дка карто́пля f (solódka kartóplja)
• Urapmin: wan
• Urdu: شکرقندی f (śakarqandi)
• Uzbek: batat
• Vietnamese: khoai lang (vi)
• Wapishana: kaazuu
• Welsh: tatws melys (cy) f pl
• Winnebago: toosgu
• Wolof: pataas (wo)
• Yoruba: ànàmọ́, kúkúndùkú

yam — see yam

ocarina — see ocarina

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. 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)

Further reading

• sweet potato on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ipomoea batatas on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Dioscorea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• List of sweet potato cultivars on Wikipedia.Wikipedia