tapioca

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Pronunciation

Noun

tapioca (countable and uncountable, plural tapiocas)

  1. A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.
    • 2009, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 286:
      Fish eyes and glue we used to call the half-cooked, large-grained, starchy tapioca without flavour that we were served every week in our residence at university. How I longed for the creamy pudding Mother used to make.
    • 2021 April 16, Kellen Browning, “Another Unlikely Pandemic Shortage: Boba Tea”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      It happened when beverage aficionados learned that tapioca, the starch used to make the sweet, round, chewy black bubbles — or pearls — that are the featured topping in the popular boba tea drink, was in short supply.
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  2. The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:
      When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Maori: tapioka
  • → Marshallese: tapioka
  • → Tagalog: tapyoka

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French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca.

Pronunciation

Noun

tapioca m (plural tapiocas)

  1. tapioca

Descendants

Further reading

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca.

Noun

tapioca f (plural tapioche)

  1. tapioca

Anagrams

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ta.piˈɔ.kɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /taˈpjɔ.kɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ta.piˈɔ.ka/ , (faster pronunciation) /taˈpjɔ.ka/

  • Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
  • Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧o‧ca

Noun

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

  1. tapioca (starchy food made from cassava)
  2. (cooking) crepe made with tapioca, served with various fillings, often meat or cheese

Descendants

See also

Further reading

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese tapioca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taˈpjoka/
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Syllabification: ta‧pio‧ca

Noun

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

  1. tapioca

Derived terms

Further reading

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