tapioca
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /tæpiˈoʊkə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]tapioca (countable and uncountable, plural tapiocas)
- A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.
- 2009, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 286:
- Fish eyes and glue we used to call the half-cooked, large-grained, starchy tapioca without flavour that we were served every week in our residence at university. How I longed for the creamy pudding Mother used to make.
- 2021 April 16, Kellen Browning, “Another Unlikely Pandemic Shortage: Boba Tea”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- It happened when beverage aficionados learned that tapioca, the starch used to make the sweet, round, chewy black bubbles — or pearls — that are the featured topping in the popular boba tea drink, was in short supply.
- The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:
- When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]starchy food from cassava
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Further reading
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tapioca m (plural tapiocas)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tapioca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca.
Noun
[edit]tapioca f (plural tapioche)
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'oka.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
- Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧o‧ca
Noun
[edit]tapioca f (plural tapiocas)
- tapioca (starchy food made from cassava)
- (cooking) crepe made with tapioca, served with various fillings, often meat or cheese
Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: տապիոկա (tapioka)
- → Esperanto: tapioko
- → English: tapioca
- → Finnish: tapioka
- → French: tapioca
- → German: Tapioka
- → Indonesian: tapioka
- → Japanese: タピオカ
- → Spanish: tapioca
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tapioca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “tapioca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tapioca f (plural tapiocas)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tapioca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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