kamote

Borrowed from Tagalog kamote, from Spanish camote (“sweet potato”), from Classical Nahuatl camohtli.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmoʊ.teɪ/

kamote (plural kamotes)

1. (Philippines) Alternative form of camote

• kamote tops

• matoke

Borrowed from Spanish camote (“sweet potato”), from Classical Nahuatl camohtli.

kamote

1. sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
2. the tuber of this plant

Borrowed from Spanish camote (“sweet potato”), from Classical Nahuatl camohtli.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈmote/, [kaˈmo.te]

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• Hyphenation: ka‧mo‧te

kamote (Basahan spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜆᜒ)

1. sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
2. the tuber of this plant
3. (informal) failure, botched attempt

   Synonym: kalabasa

kamote (Basahan spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜆᜒ)

1. (informal) stupid

   Synonyms: patal, palpal, pulpol, pangol, bobo, boba, tonto, tonta

Borrowed from Spanish camote (“sweet potato”), from Classical Nahuatl camohtli.

• Hyphenation: ka‧mo‧te
• IPA^(key): /kaˈmote/, [kʌˈmo.t̪ɪ]

kamote

1. sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
2. the tuber of this plant

Borrowed from Spanish camote (“sweet potato”), from Classical Nahuatl camohtli. Senses about performing badly is possibly an expression about students should instead plant potatoes, or a play on the word kamot (“scrach”), about scratching one's heads when unable to know what to do. However, some sources state that the senses already exist as part of Spanish slang to mean that way. See also Hokkien 大番薯 (tōa-han-chî), Cantonese 大番薯 (daai⁶ faan¹ syu^4-2), Hakka 大番薯.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈmote/ [kɐˈmo.tɛ]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: ka‧mo‧te

kamote (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜆᜒ)

1. sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
2. the tuber of this plant
3. (slang) act of performing badly on a task
4. (slang, by extension) a driver with little or no regard for the rules of the road

• patatas

kamote (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜆᜒ)

1. (slang) puzzled; unable to figure out how to resolve a problem or a task

• → Hokkien: ka-mú-tī

• loko

• “kamote”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 104