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): (Valencia) [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

From Manado Malay batata, from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata.

batata

1. sweet 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

• → Itsekiri: imatátá, matátá
• → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
  • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
• → Swahili: mbatata

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

• IPA^(key): /baˈtata/ [baˈt̪a.t̪a]

• Audio (Spain):

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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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

batata ?

1. sweet potato

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