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.
3. An ocarina.

Synonyms

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

Meronyms

• (tuber): beta-carotene

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
• 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 (zh), 红薯 (zh) (hóngshǔ), 番薯 (zh) (fānshǔ), 山芋 (zh) (shānyù), 番芋 (zh) (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: sød kartoffel c, sødkartoffel c, batat c (rare)
• Dutch: zoete aardappel (nl) m
• 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: wilec ziemniaczany (pl) 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), بَطَاطَا‎ (ar) f (baṭāṭā), بَطَاطَة‎ f (baṭāṭa)

  Egyptian Arabic: بطاطة‎ f pl (baṭaṭa)

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

• Armenian: բատատ (hy) (batat), քաղցր կարտոֆիլ (kʿałcʿr 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 (miśṭi alu)
• Bikol Central: kamote (bcl)
• 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)

  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 (zh) (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 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)
• 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 (satsumaimo), 甘藷 (かんしょ, kansho)
• Jingpho: naisam
• Kapampangan: kamuti
• 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)
• Malay: ubi keledek, keledek
• Malayalam: മധുരക്കിഴങ്ങ് (ml) (madhurakkiḻaṅṅŭ)
• Maltese: patata ħelwa f
• Manchu: ᠯᠠᡵᡥᡡᠨ (larhūn)
• Maori: kūmara, kūmera
• Mongolian: амтат тѳмс (amtat tѳms)
• 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
• Quechua: kumar
• 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 lǎeng)
• 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 (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) (cilagaḍadumpa)
• Thai: มันเทศ (man-têet)
• Tibetan: གྲོ་མ (gro ma)
• Tongan: kumala
• Turkish: tatlı patates (tr)
• 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
• Wolof: pataas (wo)

yam — see yam

ocarina — see ocarina

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)

Further reading

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