jicama

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Borrowed from Mexican Spanish jícama, from Classical Nahuatl xīcama, apocopic form of xīcamatl.

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Burmese: စိမ်းစားဥ (cim:ca:u.) — the edible root of the yam bean
• Catalan: jícama — the edible root of the yam bean
• Cebuano: singkamas — the edible root of the yam bean
• Chinese Cantonese: 沙葛 (saa1 got3) — the edible root of the yam bean
• Chinese Mandarin: 涼薯 /凉薯 (liángshǔ) — the edible root of the yam bean
• Chinese Mandarin: 豆薯 (dòushǔ) — the edible root of the yam bean
• French: jícama — the edible root of the yam bean
• French: pois patate — the edible root of the yam bean
• German: Yambohne — the edible root of the yam bean
• Indonesian: bengkuang — the edible root of the yam bean
• Italian: patata messicana — the edible root of the yam bean
• Japanese: ヒカマ (hikama) — the edible root of the yam bean
• Javanese: bengkuang — the edible root of the yam bean
• Kapampangan: singkamas — the edible root of the yam bean
• Khmer: ដំឡូងរលួស (dâmlongrôluŏs) — the edible root of the yam bean
• Khmer: ប៉ិកួៈ (pekuəʔ) — the edible root of the yam bean
• Khmer: ប៉ិគក់ (bĕkkâ) — the edible root of the yam bean
• Malay: sengkuang — the edible root of the yam bean
• Spanish: jícama — the edible root of the yam bean
• Spanish: pelenga — the edible root of the yam bean
• Spanish: nabo mexicano — the edible root of the yam bean
• Sundanese: bangkuang — the edible root of the yam bean
• Swedish: jamsbönrot — the edible root of the yam bean
• Swedish: jamsböna — the edible root of the yam bean
• Tagalog: singkamas — the edible root of the yam bean
• Tày: mằn cát — the edible root of the yam bean
• Thai: มันแกว — the edible root of the yam bean
• Vietnamese: cây củ đậu — the edible root of the yam bean
• Waray-Waray: singkamas — the edible root of the yam bean
• Zhuang: maenzgat — the edible root of the yam bean
• Zhuang: lauxbaeggaeu — the edible root of the yam bean
• Zhuang: sawzliengz — the edible root of the yam bean
• Zhuang: gaeugat — the edible root of the yam bean