name
Meaning 1
A river and valley in Italy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
taro
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtæɹəʊ/
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General-American: /ˈtæɹoʊ/
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General-American: /ˈtɑɹoʊ/
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rhymes with -æɹəʊ
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homophone: tarot
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CMU ARPABET: T EH1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colocasia, elephant ears, eddo, old cocoyam, yam
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Food from a taro plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dasheen, madumbi, eddo
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
tropical starchy tuberous root
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: taro root, cocoyam, dasheen, edda
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: root vegetable
noun
Meaning 6
herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: taro plant, dalo, dasheen, Colocasia esculenta
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: arum, aroid
noun
Meaning 7
edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, eddo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: root
History
Etymology
From Latin Tarus.
Borrowed from Māori taro. Doublet of kalo, from Hawaiian.
Across languages
Translations
149 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Abau: how — Colocasia esculenta
- Acehnese: eumpeuek — Colocasia esculenta
- Amaimon: mamo — Colocasia esculenta
- Ambulas: maye — Colocasia esculenta
- Aneme Wake: mína — Colocasia esculenta
- Angaataha: kaatɨ-́há — Colocasia esculenta
- Angor: mao — Colocasia esculenta
- Ansus: barimu — Colocasia esculenta
- Arabic: قُلْقَاس (qulqās) — Colocasia esculenta
- Arabic: قُلْقَاس (ʔulʔās) — Colocasia esculenta
- Arabic: بطاطا قصبية (bṭāṭa qaṣbiyya, baṭāṭa qaṣbiyya) — Colocasia esculenta
- Armenian: տարո (taro) — Colocasia esculenta
- Assamese: কচু (kosu) — Colocasia esculenta
- Atayal: cehuy — Colocasia esculenta
- Awa (New Guinea): nɔ̌ — Colocasia esculenta
- Bengali: কচু (kocu) — Colocasia esculenta
- Bengali: মুখি (mukhi) — Colocasia esculenta
- Central Bikol: natong — Colocasia esculenta
- Burmese: ပိန်းဥ (pin:u.) — Colocasia esculenta
- Catalan: taro — Colocasia esculenta
- Cebuano: gabi — Colocasia esculenta
- Chinese Cantonese: 芋頭 /芋头 — Colocasia esculenta
- Chinese: 芋仔 (zh-min-nan) — Colocasia esculenta
- Chinese Mandarin: 芋頭 /芋头 (yùtou) — Colocasia esculenta
- Czech: kolokázie jedlá — Colocasia esculenta
- Dhivehi: އޮޅު އަލަ (oḷu ala) — Colocasia esculenta
- Fijian: dalo — Colocasia esculenta
- Finnish: taaro — Colocasia esculenta
- Finnish: taro — Colocasia esculenta
- French: taro — Colocasia esculenta
- German: Taro — Colocasia esculenta
- German: Wasserbrotwurzel — Colocasia esculenta
- Greek: κολοκάσι (kolokási) — Colocasia esculenta
- Gujarati: અળવી (aḷvī) — Colocasia esculenta
- Hausa: gwaza — Colocasia esculenta
- Hawaiian: kalo — Colocasia esculenta
- Hiligaynon: gabi — Colocasia esculenta
- Hindi: अरबी (arbī) — Colocasia esculenta
- Hindi: अरवी (arvī) — Colocasia esculenta
- Hindi: अरुई (aruī) — Colocasia esculenta
- Hindi: कच्चू (kaccū) — Colocasia esculenta
- Hindi: कचालू (kacālū) — Colocasia esculenta
- Imonda: safa — Colocasia esculenta
- Indonesian: keladi — Colocasia esculenta
- Indonesian: talas — Colocasia esculenta
- Italian: colocasia — Colocasia esculenta
- Ivatan: sudi — Colocasia esculenta
- Japanese: 里芋 (satoimo) — Colocasia esculenta
- Japanese: サトイモ (satoimo) — Colocasia esculenta
- Khmer: ត្រាវ (traaw) — Colocasia esculenta
- Kikuyu: ndũũma — Colocasia esculenta
- Korean: 토란 (toran) — Colocasia esculenta
- Lao: ເຜືອກ (phư̄ak) — Colocasia esculenta
- Latin: colocasia — Colocasia esculenta
- Lutuv: basa — Colocasia esculenta
- Macedonian: таро (taro) — Colocasia esculenta
- Maithili: अडुआ (aḍuā) — Colocasia esculenta
- Malay: keladi Cina — Colocasia esculenta
- Malay: talas — Colocasia esculenta
- Malayalam: താള് (tāḷŭ) — Colocasia esculenta
- Malayalam: ചേമ്പ് (cēmpŭ) — Colocasia esculenta
- Malayalam: പൊടിച്ചേമ്പ് (poṭiccēmpŭ) — Colocasia esculenta
- Manchu: ᡥᡡᡧᠠᠵᡠ (hūšaju) — Colocasia esculenta
- Māori: taro — Colocasia esculenta
- Mian: imen — Colocasia esculenta
- Mizo: bâl — Colocasia esculenta
- Morori: mber — Colocasia esculenta
- Nepali: पिंडालु (piṇḍālu) — Colocasia esculenta
- Odia: ସାରୁ (sāru) — Colocasia esculenta
- Persian: پیلگوش (pīlgūš) — Colocasia esculenta
- Polish: taro — Colocasia esculenta
- Portuguese: taro — Colocasia esculenta
- Punjabi: ਅਰਵੀ (aravī) — Colocasia esculenta
- Russian: та́ро (táro) — Colocasia esculenta
- Samoan: talo — Colocasia esculenta
- Sanskrit: कचु (kacu) — Colocasia esculenta
- Sanskrit: कच्वी (kacvī) — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: taro — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: achín — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: ñampí — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: ñame — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: ocumo chino — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: papa china — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: pituca — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: yautía coco — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: bore — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: chonque — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: mairina — Colocasia esculenta
- Spanish: michucsi — Colocasia esculenta
- Sundanese: kimpul — Colocasia esculenta
- Swedish: taro — Colocasia esculenta
- Sylheti: ꠇꠌꠥ (xosu) — Colocasia esculenta
- Tagalog: gabi — Colocasia esculenta
- Tahitian: taro — Colocasia esculenta
- Takia: mao — Colocasia esculenta
- Tày: bon — Colocasia esculenta
- Thai: เผือก (pʉ̀ʉak) — Colocasia esculenta
- Tongan: talo — Colocasia esculenta
- Turkish: gölevez — Colocasia esculenta
- Turkish: kolokas — Colocasia esculenta
- Urapmin: ima — Colocasia esculenta
- Vietnamese: khoai môn — Colocasia esculenta
- Vietnamese: khoai sọ — Colocasia esculenta
- Xârâcùù: mwè — Colocasia esculenta
- Xhosa: idumbe — Colocasia esculenta
- Finnish: taro — similar plants in Colocasia, Alocasia
- Finnish: alokasia — similar plants in Colocasia, Alocasia
- Polish: taro — similar plants in Colocasia, Alocasia
- Arabic: قُلْقَاس (qulqās) — food from the taro plant
- Arabic: قُلْقَاس (ʔulʔās) — food from the taro plant
- Arabic: بطاطا قصبية (bṭāṭa qaṣbiyya, baṭāṭa qaṣbiyya) — food from the taro plant
- Burmese: ပိန်းဥ (pin:u.) — food from the taro plant
- Catalan: taro — food from the taro plant
- Finnish: taaro — food from the taro plant
- Finnish: taro — food from the taro plant
- German: Taro — food from the taro plant
- German: Wasserbrotwurzel — food from the taro plant
- Greek: κολοκάσι (kolokási) — food from the taro plant
- Hawaiian: kalo — food from the taro plant
- Hindi: अरबी (arbī) — food from the taro plant
- Hindi: अरवी (arvī) — food from the taro plant
- Hindi: अरुई (aruī) — food from the taro plant
- Hindi: कच्चू (kaccū) — food from the taro plant
- Hindi: कचालू (kacālū) — food from the taro plant
- Italian: colocasia — food from the taro plant
- Lao: ເຜືອກ (phư̄ak) — food from the taro plant
- Latin: colocasia — food from the taro plant
- Macedonian: таро (taro) — food from the taro plant
- Māori: taro — food from the taro plant
- Polish: taro — food from the taro plant
- Portuguese: taro — food from the taro plant
- Punjabi: ਅਰਵੀ (aravī) — food from the taro plant
- Samoan: talo — food from the taro plant
- Spanish: taro — food from the taro plant
- Spanish: tubérculo de achín — food from the taro plant
- Spanish: ñampí — food from the taro plant
- Spanish: ñame — food from the taro plant
- Spanish: ocumo chino — food from the taro plant
- Spanish: papa china — food from the taro plant
- Spanish: pituca — food from the taro plant
- Spanish: yautía coco — food from the taro plant
- Spanish: michucsi — food from the taro plant
- Tagalog: kalawa — food from the taro plant
- Tagalog: gabi — food from the taro plant
- Tahitian: taro — food from the taro plant
- Thai: เผือก (pʉ̀ʉak) — food from the taro plant
- Tongan: talo — food from the taro plant
- Turkish: gölevez — food from the taro plant
- Turkish: kolokas — food from the taro plant