taro

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori taro, in turn from Proto-Polynesian *talo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtæɹəʊ/
  • 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.
  2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
  3. Food from a taro plant.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations
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See also

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Maori taro.

Pronunciation
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Noun

taro m (plural taros)

  1. taro (plant)

Synonyms

Further reading

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
  2. peak, mountain
    Synonyms: cotarro, outeiro

References

Hiri Motu

Noun

taro

  1. taro

Italian

Verb

taro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tarare

Anagrams

Maori

Etymology

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

Noun

taro

  1. taro
  2. bread

Descendants

Portuguese

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

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

Spanish

Verb

taro

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tarar.

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo

Noun

taro

  1. taro

Tok Pisin

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, →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

Etymology

Pronunciation

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

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