tapioca

English

Etymology

From Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæpiˈoʊkə/

Noun

tapioca (countable and uncountable, plural tapiocas)

1. 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.

Translations

starchy food from cassava

• Armenian: տապիոկա (tapioka)
• Belarusian: тапіёка f (tapijóka)
• Bengali: ট্যাপিওকা (ṭêpiōka)
• Burmese: သာဂူ (my) (sagu)
• Central Dusun: mundok
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木薯 (zh) (mùshǔ)

  Min Nan: 樹薯／树薯 (chhiū-chî, chhiū-chû)

• Czech: tapioka f
• Esperanto: tapioko
• Finnish: tapioka
• French: tapioca (fr) m
• German: Tapioka f
• Greek: ταπιόκα f (tapióka)
• Hindi: साबूदाना (hi) m (sābūdānā)
• Hungarian: tápióka
• Indonesian: tapioka (id), kanji (id)
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• Interlingua: tapioca
• Irish: taipióca f
• Italian: tapioca (it) f
• Japanese: タピオカ (tapioka)
• Malay: ubi kayu, kaspe, singkong, sampa, ubi sampa, ubi jenderal, ubi perancis
• Maltese: tapjoka f
• Maori: tapioka
• Marathi: साबुदाणा m (sābudāṇā)
• Portuguese: tapioca (pt) f
• Russian: тапио́ка (ru) f (tapióka)
• Spanish: tapioca (es)
• Swedish: tapioka c
• Tagalog: balinghoy
• Tamil: ஆளுவல்லி (āḷuvalli)
• Telugu: కర్రపెండలం (karrapeṇḍalaṁ)
• Ukrainian: тапіо́ка f (tapióka)
• Vietnamese: bột báng

Further reading

• tapioca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Noun

tapioca f (plural tapioche)

1. tapioca

Anagrams

• apatico, atopica, capotai, copiata, opacità

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Noun

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

1. tapioca (starchy food made from cassava)

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Spanish

Noun

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

1. tapioca