taro

See also: Appendix:Variations of "taro"

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹoʊ/, /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, eddo, old cocoyam

   • 2018, Lena Dominelli, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.

   Synonyms: dasheen, madumbi, eddo

Hyponyms

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

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 cake
• 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 (qulqās)

  Egyptian Arabic: قُلْقَاس m (ʔulʔās)

  Moroccan Arabic: بطاطا قصبية f (bṭāṭa qaṣbiyya, baṭāṭa qaṣbiyya)

• Armenian: տարո (taro)
• Assamese: কচু (kosu)
• Atayal: cehuy
• Awa (New Guinea): nɔ̌
• Bengali: কচু (bn) (kocu), 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)

  Hokkien: 芋仔 (zh-min-nan) (ō͘-á)

  Mandarin: 芋頭／芋头 (zh) (yùtou)

• Czech: kolokázie jedlá
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dhivehi: އޮޅު އަލަ (oḷu ala)
• Fijian: dalo
• Finnish: taaro (fi), taro (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), talas (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, talas
• Malayalam: താള് (ml) (tāḷŭ), പൊടിച്ചേമ്പ് (poṭiccēmpŭ)
• Manchu: ᡥᡡᡧᠠᠵᡠ (hūšaju)
• Maori: taro
• Mian: imen
• Morori: mber
• Nepali: पिंडालु (piṇḍālu)
• Odia: ସାରୁ (sāru)
• Persian: پیلگوش (pīlgūš)
• Polish: taro (pl) n
• Portuguese: taro (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਅਰਵੀ (pa) (aravī)
• 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, bore (es) m (Colombia), chonque (es) m (Colombia), mairina f (Peru), michucsi f (Peru)
• Swedish: taro c
• Sylheti: ꠇꠌꠥ (xosu)
• Tagalog: gabi (tl)
• Tahitian: taro
• Takia: mao
• Thai: เผือก (th) (pʉ̀ʉak)
• Tongan: talo
• Turkish: gölevez, kolokas
• Tày: bon
• Urapmin: ima
• Vietnamese: khoai môn (vi), khoai sọ (vi)
• Xârâcùù: mwè
• Xhosa: idumbe

similar plants in Colocasia, Alocasia

• Finnish: taro (fi) (Colocasia); alokasia (fi) (Alocasia), taro (fi)

food from the taro plant

• Arabic: قُلْقَاس m (qulqās)

  Egyptian Arabic: قُلْقَاس m (ʔulʔās)

  Moroccan Arabic: بطاطا قصبية f (bṭāṭa qaṣbiyya, baṭāṭa qaṣbiyya)

• Burmese: ပိန်းဥ (my) (pin:u.)
• Catalan: taro (ca) m
• Finnish: taaro (fi), taro (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
• Portuguese: taro (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਅਰਵੀ (pa) f (aravī)
• 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, michucsi f (Peru)
• Tagalog: kalawa, gabi (tl)
• Tahitian: taro
• Thai: เผือก (th) (pʉ̀ʉak)
• Tongan: talo
• Turkish: gölevez, kolokas

Anagrams

• -ator, Rato, rato, aort-, oart, Rota, Orta, RATO, Roat, rota

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʁo/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. taro (plant)

   Synonym: colocase

Etymology 2

Clipping of tarif  +‎ -o

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. Slang form of tarif (“price”)
   • 2024 April 17, “Les vitesses” (2:30 from the start), Batbat (lyrics)‎^[2]:

     On paie avec l’argent de la mort
     Mille 2 le taro d’la galette

     One pays blood money
     Thousand and two the price of the biscuit

Verb

taro (inconjugable)

1. (slang) to have sex with

   Synonyms: bouillave, mougou, gbra, niquer

Further reading

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

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “taro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “taro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “taro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Hiri Motu

Noun

taro

1. taro

Italian

Verb

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarare

Anagrams

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

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

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.

Maranao

Noun

taro

1. wax

References

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀢𑀭𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• तरो (Devanagari script)
• তরো (Bengali script)
• තරො (Sinhalese script)
• တရော or တရေႃ (Burmese script)
• ตโร or ตะโร (Thai script)
• ᨲᩁᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຕໂຣ or ຕະໂຣ (Lao script)
• តរោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄢𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

taro

1. nominative singular of tara (“the Pali root tar”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.rɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧ro

Noun

taro f

1. vocative singular of tara

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

Rapa Nui

Etymology

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

Noun

taro

1. taro

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾo/ [ˈt̪a.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: ta‧ro

Etymology 1

Noun

taro m (uncountable)

1. taro

Etymology 2

Verb

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarar

Tahitian

Etymology

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

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^[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 quotation)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtarɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈta(ː)rɔ/
• Rhymes: -arɔ

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• tarawo

Verb

taro (first-person singular present trawaf)

1. to strike, hit
2. to jot down, to note

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	trawa i, trawaf i	trawi di	trawith o/e/hi, trawiff e/hi	trawn ni	trawch chi	trawan nhw
conditional	trawn i, trawswn i	trawet ti, trawset ti	trawai fo/fe/hi, trawsai fo/fe/hi	trawen ni, trawsen ni	trawech chi, trawsech chi	trawen nhw, trawsen nhw
preterite	trawais i, trawes i	trawaist ti, trawest ti	trawodd o/e/hi	trawon ni	trawoch chi	trawon nhw
imperative	—	trawa	—	—	trawch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

• taro allan (“to set off (on a journey); to break out (in song)”)
• taro ar (“to hit upon, to come across”)
• taro at (“to set about; to allude to”)
• taro bargen (“to strike a bargain”)
• taro cis ar (“to touch upon, to refer to”)
• taro cnec (“to fart”)
• taro deuddeg (“to hit the right note”, literally “to hit twelve”)
• taro ei big mewn (“to butt in, to interrupt”, literally “to strike one's beak in”)
• taro golwg (“to glance”)
• taro gwaed (“to draw blood”)
• taro gyda (“to join (oneself to a group)”)
• taro haearn ar (“to iron (clothes)”)
• taro heibio, taro i (“to drop in, to pop in”)
• taro i feddwl (“to strike one's mind, to occur to one”)
• taro i lawr (“to jot down”)
• taro llygad ar (“to set eyes on”)
• taro llygad dros (“to glance around”)
• taro rhech (“to fart”)
• taro tant (“to strike a chord”)
• taro untrew (“to sneeze”)
• taro wrth (“to hit upon, to come across”)
• taro ymlaen (“to knock on (in rugby)”)
• taro yn ei ben (“to strike one's mind”, literally “to strike in one's head”)
• taro yn ei dalcen (“to put to an end”)
• taro'r bai ar (“to lay the blame on, to blame”)
• taro'r nod (“to hit the mark”)
• taro'r tant mawr (“to ride the high horse”, literally “to strike the big note”)
• taro’r hoel ar ei chlopa (“to hit the nail on the head”)

 

Etymology 2

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

Noun

taro m (uncountable)

1. taro

Mutation

Mutated forms of taro

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
taro	daro	nharo	tharo

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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

Yami

Noun

taro

1. wax
2. candle