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)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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 (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007
• “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, 2025

• 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

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bàtààtá.

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

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batata

Wikipedia ^pt

Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta‧ta

batata f (plural batatas)

1. potato

• → Gujarati: બટાટો (baṭāṭo)
• → Itsekiri: imatátá, matátá
• → Konkani: बटाट (baṭāṭ)
• → Makhuwa: patata
• → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
  • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
• → Sindhi: پٽاٽو
• → Swahili: mbatata

• “batata”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “batata”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

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

• IPA^(key): /baˈtata/

• 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

• → Portuguese: batata
  • → Gujarati: બટાટો (baṭāṭo)
  • → Itsekiri: imatátá, matátá
  • → Konkani: बटाट (baṭāṭ)
  • → Makhuwa: patata
  • → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
    • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
  • → Sindhi: پٽاٽو
  • → Swahili: mbatata

• “batata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024

batata ?

1. sweet potato

• → Spanish: batata
  • → Portuguese: batata
    • → Gujarati: બટાટો (baṭāṭo)
    • → Itsekiri: imatátá, matátá
    • → Konkani: बटाट (baṭāṭ)
    • → Makhuwa: patata
    • → Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
      • → Kannada: ಬಟಾಟೆ (baṭāṭe)
    • → Sindhi: پٽاٽو
    • → Swahili: mbatata
  , patata