batata

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

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

• Audio (Southern England)

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batata (plural batatas)

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

• batata vada

• Tabata

Borrowed from Taíno batata.

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

batata f (plural batates)

1. sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas)

   Synonyms: moniatera, moniato

2. sweet potato tuber

   Synonym: moniato

• patata

• “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, 2024

• IPA^(key): /baˈta.ta/

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

1. singular present passive participle of bati

batata

1. present passive participle of batar

Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata.

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

batata f (plural batate)

1. sweet potato

   Synonyms: patata americana, patata dolce

batata class 2

1. plural of tata

From Spanish batata and Portuguese batata and Kabuverdianu batata.

The Spanish word comes from Taíno batata.

batata

1. potato

Borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

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

batata f (plural batatas)

1. potato

• batata-da-terra
• batata-doce
• batata frita
• batata-palha

• batatal
• batateiro
• marmêndoa

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

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

• IPA^(key): /baˈtata/ [baˈt̪a.t̪a]
• (Castilian)

  Audio:

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

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

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

batata ?

1. sweet potato

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