taro

See also: Taro, taró, tarò, tarô, tarõ, Tarō, and țaro

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori taro. Doublet of kalo, from Hawaiian.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹoʊ/, /ˈtɑɹoʊ/
• Rhymes: -æɹəʊ
• Homophone: tarot

Noun

taro (usually uncountable, plural taros)

1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

   Synonyms: colocasia, elephant ears

   • 2018, Lena Dominelli, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work‎^[2], Routledge, →ISBN, OCLC 1038768394, page 134:

     The Jiasian region is famous for taro ice cream. Even though taro is the key ingredient in the ice cream, people in this area bought taro from other regions. During the post-Typhoon Morakot reconstruction process, JCA and other local organisations encouraged large numbers of farmers in Jiasian to grow taro. The Agriculture Bureau then started investing in Jiasian taro farming. Local taro ice cream makers are now using local taro to support local agriculture.

2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
3. Food from a taro plant.

   Synonym: dasheen

Hyponyms

• (similar plants): giant taro, Alocasia and species, especially Alocasia macrorrhizos; swamp taro, Cyrtosperma merkusii; Xanthosoma sagittifolium

Derived terms

• Chinese taro, chinese taro (Alocasia cucullata)
• giant swamp taro (Cyrtosperma merkusii)
• giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos)
• metallic taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos)
• swamp taro (Cyrtosperma merkusii)
• taro flying frog (Rhacophorus taronensis)
• taro-patch fiddle

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: taro

Translations

Colocasia esculenta

• Abau: how
• Amaimon: mamo
• Ambulas: maye
• Aneme Wake: mína
• Angaataha: kaatɨ-́há
• Angor: mao
• Ansus: barimu
• Arabic: قُلْقَاس‎ m pl (qulqās)

  Egyptian Arabic: قُلْقَاس‎ m pl (ʾulʾās)

• Assamese: কচু (kosu)
• Atayal: cehuy
• Awa (New Guinea): nɔ̌
• Bengali: কচু (bn) (kôcu), মুখি (mukhi)
• Bikol Central: natong (bcl)
• Burmese: ပိန်းဥ (my) (pin:u.)
• Catalan: taro (ca) m
• Cebuano: gabi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 芋頭, 芋头 (wu⁶ tau^4-2)

  Mandarin: 芋頭 (zh), 芋头 (zh) (yùtou)

  Min Nan: 芋仔 (zh-min-nan) (ō͘-á)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dhivehi: އޮޅު އަލަ‎ (oḷu ala)
• Fijian: dalo
• Finnish: taaro (fi)
• French: taro (fr) m
• German: Taro (de) m, Wasserbrotwurzel f
• Greek: κολοκάσι (el) n (kolokási)
• Gujarati: અળવી ? (aḷvī)
• Hausa: gwaza (ha)
• Hawaiian: kalo
• Hiligaynon: gabi
• Hindi: अरबी (hi) m (arbī), अरवी (hi) m (arvī), अरुई (hi) f (aruī), कच्चू (hi) f (kaccū), कचालू (hi) m (kacālū)
• Imonda: safa
• Indonesian: keladi (id)
• Italian: colocasia f
• Ivatan: sudi
• Japanese: 里芋 (ja) (さといも, satoimo), サトイモ (satoimo)
• Khmer: ត្រាវ (km) (traaw)
• Kikuyu: ndũũma
• Korean: 토란 (ko) (toran)
• Lao: ເຜືອກ (phư̄ak)
• Latin: colocasia f
• Macedonian: таро n (taro)
• Maithili: अडुआ ? (aḍuā)
• Malay: keladi Cina
• Malayalam: താള് (ml) (tāḷŭ), പൊടിച്ചേമ്പ് (poṭiccēmpŭ)
• Manchu: ᡥᡡᡧᠠᠵᡠ (hūšaju)
• Maori: taro
• Mian: imen
• Morori: mber
• Nepali: पिंडालु (piṇḍālu)
• Oriya: ସାରୁ (saru)
• Polish: taro (pl) n
• Punjabi: ਅਰਵੀ (pa) (aravī)
• Portuguese: taro (pt) m
• Russian: та́ро (ru) n (táro)
• Samoan: talo (sm)
• Sanskrit: कचु (sa) f (kacu), कच्वी (sa) f (kacvī)
• Spanish: taro (es) m, (Colombia) achín (es) m, (Costa Rica) ñampí m, (Spain's Canary Islands) ñame (es) m, (Venezuela) ocumo chino m, (Colombia, Ecuador) papa china f, (Peru) pituca f, (Dominican Republic) yautía coco f
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can
• Sylheti: ꠇꠌꠥ (xosu)
• Tagalog: gabi (tl)
• Tahitian: taro
• Takia: mao
• Thai: เผือก (th) (pʉ̀ʉak)
• Tongan: talo
• Turkish: gölevez, kolokas
• Urapmin: ima
• Vietnamese: khoai môn (vi), khoai sọ (vi)

food from the taro plant

• Arabic: قُلْقَاس‎ m pl (qulqās)

  Egyptian Arabic: قُلْقَاس‎ m pl (ʾulʾās)

• Burmese: ပိန်းဥ (my) (pin:u.)
• Catalan: taro (ca) m
• Finnish: taaro (fi)
• German: Taro (de) m, Wasserbrotwurzel f
• Greek: κολοκάσι (el) n (kolokási)
• Hawaiian: kalo
• Hindi: अरबी (hi) m (arbī), अरवी (hi) m (arvī), अरुई (hi) f (aruī), कच्चू (hi) f (kaccū), कचालू (hi) m (kacālū)
• Italian: colocasia f
• Lao: ເຜືອກ (phư̄ak)
• Latin: colocasia f
• Macedonian: таро n (taro)
• Maori: taro
• Punjabi: ਅਰਵੀ (pa) f (aravī)
• Portuguese: taro (pt) m
• Samoan: talo (sm)
• Spanish: taro (es) m, (Colombia) tubérculo de achín m, (Costa Rica) ñampí m, (Spain's Canary Islands) ñame (es) m, (Venezuela) ocumo chino m, (Colombia, Ecuador) papa china f, (Peru) pituca f, (Dominican Republic) yautía coco f
• Tagalog: kalawa, gabi (tl)
• Tahitian: taro
• Thai: เผือก (th) (pʉ̀ʉak)
• Tongan: talo
• Turkish: gölevez, kolokas

See also

• eddo

Anagrams

• -ator, RATO, Rato, Roat, Rota, rato, rota

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French

Etymology

From Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʁo/

• Audio

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Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. taro (plant)

   Synonym: colocase

Further reading

• “taro”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾo̝/

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. sandbank

   Synonyms: banco, barra, restinga, brica, sirte

2. peak, mountain

   Synonyms: cotarro, outeiro

References

• “taro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “taro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “taro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Hiri Motu

Noun

taro

1. taro

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Italian

Verb

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarare

Anagrams

• Rota, Torà, arto, atro, rato, rota, torà

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Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

Noun

taro ?

1. star

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014), “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎^[3], pages 13-36

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Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs (compare with Malay talas and Javanese tales).

Noun

taro

1. taro
2. bread

Descendants

• → English: taro
  • Tok Pisin: taro
• → French: taro
• → German: Taro

Further reading

• “taro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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Maranao

Noun

taro

1. wax

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.rɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧ro

Noun

taro f

1. vocative singular of tara

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɾu/

• Rhymes: -aɾu

Etymology 1

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. taro (Colocasia esculenta; edible corm of the taro plant)

Etymology 2

Verb

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarar

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Spanish

Noun

taro m (uncountable)

1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

Verb

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarar

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Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

Noun

taro

1. taro

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Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English taro.

Noun

taro

1. The taro plant.
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎^[4], →ISBN, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtarɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːrɔ/, /ˈtarɔ/
• Rhymes: -arɔ

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn; pierce”).

Verb

taro (first-person singular present trawaf)

1. to strike, hit

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	trawaf	trewi	tery, trawa	trawn	trewch	trawant	trewir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional	trawn	trawit	trawai	trawem	trawech	trawent	trewid
preterite	trewais	trewaist	trawodd	trawsom	trawsoch	trawsant	trawyd
pluperfect	trawswn	trawsit	trawsai	trawsem	trawsech	trawsent	trawsid, trewsid
present subjunctive	trawyf	trewych	trawo	trawom	trawoch	trawont	trawer
imperative	—	taro	trawed	trawn	trewch	trawent	trawer
verbal noun	taro
verbal adjectives	trawedig trawadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	tara i, taraf i	tari di	tarith o/e/hi, tariff e/hi	tarwn ni	tarwch chi	taran nhw
conditional	tarwn i, tarswn i	taret ti, tarset ti	tarai fo/fe/hi, tarsai fo/fe/hi	taren ni, tarsen ni	tarech chi, tarsech chi	taren nhw, tarsen nhw
preterite	tarais i, tares i	taraist ti, tarest ti	tarodd o/e/hi	taron ni	taroch chi	taron nhw
imperative	—	tara	—	—	tarwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Etymology 2

From English taro, from Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

Noun

taro m (uncountable)

1. taro

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
taro	daro	nharo	tharo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “taro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Yami

Noun

taro

1. wax
2. candle