sweet potato

§English

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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.
3. (US) A yam; a tuber from the genus Dioscorea.

§Usage notes

Careful use distinguishes yams (genus Dioscorea) from sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas), while casual American use conflates these.

§Synonyms

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

§Derived terms

• sweet-potato ring rot
• sweet potato vine
• sweet-potato whitefly
• tropical sweet potato
• white-fleshed sweet potato
• white sweet potato

§Translations

vine

• Catalan: batata (ca) f, moniatera f moniato (ca) m
• Danish: batat c, sød kartoffel c
• 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 f, (Cuba, Uruguay) boniato m, (Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Western Argentina) camote m
• Tagalog: kamote (tl)

tuber

• Arabic: بطاطا حلوة f (baṭāṭā ḥúlwa)

  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, 红薯 (zh) (hóngshǔ), 番薯 (zh) (fānshǔ)

  Min Nan: han-chî

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

• Korean: 고구마 (ko) (goguma)
• Lao: ມັນເທດ (man thēt), ມັນດ້າງ (lo) (man dāng)
• Latvian: batāte (lv) f
• Lithuanian: batatas (lt)
• Malay: ubi keledek
• Malayalam: മധുരക്കിഴങ്ങ് (ml) (madhurakkiḻaṅṅ)
• Maori: kūmara
• Mongolian: амтат тѳмс (amtat tѳms)
• Nahuatl: camohtli (nah)
• Navajo: nahooyéí, nímasii łikaní
• Norwegian: søtpotet
• Polish: batat (pl) m
• Portuguese: batata-doce (pt) f
• Quechua: kumar
• Rapa Nui: kuma porá
• Romanian: batat (ro) m
• Russian: батат (ru) m (batát), сладкий картофель m (sládkij kartófel')
• 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, batat (sv)
• 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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§External links

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