batata

batata

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata. Doublet of English potato.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈtɑ.tə/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

batata (plural batatas)

1. sweet potato (plant)
2. sweet potato (foodstuff)

Derived terms

• batata vada

Anagrams

• Tabata

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /bəˈta.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /baˈta.ta/

Noun

batata f (plural batates)

1. sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas)

   Synonyms: moniatera, moniato

2. sweet potato tuber

   Synonym: moniato

Coordinate terms

• patata

Further reading

• “batata” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “batata” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “batata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈta.ta/

Adjective

batata (accusative singular batatan, plural batataj, accusative plural batatajn)

1. singular present passive participle of bati

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Ido

Verb

batata

1. present passive participle of batar

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈta.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: ba‧tà‧ta

Noun

batata f (plural batate)

1. sweet potato

   Synonyms: patata americana, patata dolce

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Lingala

Noun

batata class 2

1. plural of tata

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish batata and Portuguese batata and Kabuverdianu batata.

The Spanish word comes from Taíno batata.

Noun

batata

1. potato

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Portuguese

batatas

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈta.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈta.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈta.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈta.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta‧ta

Noun

batata f (plural batatas)

1. potato

Derived terms

• batata-doce
• batata frita

Related terms

• batatal
• batateiro
• marmêndoa

Descendants

• → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
  • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
• → Swahili: mbatata

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno batata. Compare patata from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈtata/ [baˈt̪a.t̪a]

• Audio (Spain)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ba‧ta‧ta

Noun

batata f (plural batatas)

1. (Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, parts of Argentina) sweet potato

   Synonyms: (Cuba, Uruguay) boniato, (Mexico, Central America, Chile, Peru) camote, chaco, batata dulce, papa dulce, (Spain) patata dulce

Further reading

• “batata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Taíno

Noun

batata ?

1. sweet potato

Descendants

• Portuguese: batata
  • → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
    • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
  • → Swahili: mbatata
• Spanish: batata, patata