sweet potato

Alternative forms

sweetpotato

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈswiːt pəˈteɪtəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

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sweet potato

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sweet potato (countable and uncountable, plural sweet potatoes)

A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.
- 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes‎, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 239:
  The sweet potato is the article referred to as potato by Shakespeare and other English writers, previous to the middle of the seventeenth century.
- 2013, Sherri L. Smith, chapter 12, in Orleans, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, part 2 (Freesteader), page 116:
  I go back to the kitchen and find a knife, still smeared with sweet potato and bits of pheasant meat.
An ocarina.

Synonyms

(tropical perennial vine): batata, Ipomoea
(tuber): yam, camote (US)
kumara, kumera (New Zealand)

Hyponyms

(tuber): satsumaimo

Meronyms

(tuber): beta-carotene

Derived terms

Translations

vine

Arabic: بَطَاطَا حُلْوَة f (baṭāṭā ḥulwa)
Bikol Central: kamote (bcl)
Catalan: batata (ca) f, moniatera f moniato (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 番薯 (faan¹ syu^4-2)

Mandarin: 甘薯 (zh) (gānshǔ), 白薯 (zh) (báishǔ), 紅薯 / 红薯 (zh) (hóngshǔ), 番薯 (zh) (fānshǔ), 山芋 (zh) (shānyù), 番芋 (zh) (fānyù), 地瓜 (zh) (dìguā), 紅苕 / 红苕 (zh) (hóngsháo), 線苕 / 线苕 (xiànsháo), 金薯 (jīnshǔ), 甜薯 (tiánshǔ), 朱薯 (zhūshǔ), 玉枕薯 (yùzhěnshǔ)
Czech: povijnice batátová f
Danish: sød kartoffel c, sødkartoffel c, batat c (rare)
Dutch: zoete aardappel (nl) m
Esperanto: batato, patato (eo), dolĉa terpomo
Finnish: bataatti (fi)
French: patate douce (fr) f, patate (fr) f
Galician: pataca doce (gl) f
German: Süßkartoffel (de) f, Batate (de) f
Greek: γλυκοπατάτα (el) f (glykopatáta)
Hungarian: édesburgonya (hu)
Italian: patata dolce f, patata americana f, batata (it) f
Korean: 고구마 (ko) (goguma)
Polish: batat (pl) m, wilec ziemniaczany (pl) m
Portuguese: batata-doce (pt) f
Romanian: batat (ro) m
Spanish: (Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) batata (es) f, (Spain, Cuba, Uruguay) boniato (es) m, (Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Western Argentina, Philippines) camote (es) m
Tagalog: kamote (tl)
Turkish: tatlı patates (tr)

tuber

Arabic: بَطَاطَا حُلْوَة f (baṭāṭā ḥulwa), بَطَاطَا (ar) f (baṭāṭā), بَطَاطَة f (baṭāṭa)
Egyptian Arabic: بطاطة f pl (baṭāṭa)

Moroccan Arabic: بطاطا حلوة f (bṭāṭa ḥluwwa, baṭāṭa ḥluwwa)
Armenian: բատատ (hy) (batat), քաղցր կարտոֆիլ (kʻaġcʻr kartofil)
Assamese: মিঠা আলু (mitha alu)
Atayal: ngahi
Aymara: apichu
Basque: patata gozoa
Belarusian: бата́т m (batát), сало́дкая бу́льба f (salódkaja búlʹba)
Bengali: মিষ্টি আলু (bn) (miśṭi alu)
Bikol Central: kamote (bcl)
Bislama: kumala
Bouyei: sez, legsez
Bulgarian: сла́дък карто́ф m (sládǎk kartóf), бата́т m (batát)
Burmese: ကန်စွန်းဥ (my) (kancwan:u.)
Catalan: batata (ca) f, moniato (ca) m
Central Dusun: woi
Cherokee: ᏄᎾ ᎤᏂᎦᎾᏍᏓ (nuna uniganasda)
Cheyenne: ho'enoo'o
Chinese:
Cantonese: 番薯 (faan¹ syu^4-2)

Hokkien: han-chî

Mandarin: 甘薯 (zh) (gānshǔ), 白薯 (zh) (báishǔ), 紅薯 / 红薯 (zh) (hóngshǔ), 番薯 (zh) (fānshǔ), 山芋 (zh) (shānyù), 番芋 (zh) (fānyù), 地瓜 (zh) (dìguā), 紅苕 / 红苕 (zh) (hóngsháo), 線苕 / 线苕 (xiànsháo), 金薯 (jīnshǔ), 甜薯 (tiánshǔ), 朱薯 (zhūshǔ), 玉枕薯 (yùzhěnshǔ)
Czech: sladká brambora f, batát m inan
Danish: sød kartoffel c, sødkartoffel c, batat c (rare)
Dutch: zoete aardappel (nl), bataat (nl)
East Frisian Low Saxon: söyttuffel f
Esperanto: batato
Estonian: bataat (et)
Faroese: søtur epli
Fijian: kumala
Finnish: bataatti (fi)
French: patate douce (fr) f, patate (fr) f
Galician: pataca doce (gl) f
Georgian: ბატატი (baṭaṭi), ტკბილი კარტოფილი (ṭḳbili ḳarṭopili)
German: Süßkartoffel (de) f
Greek: γλυκοπατάτα (el) f (glykopatáta)
Guaraní: jety
Gujarati: શકરિયું (śakriyũ)
Haitian Creole: patat
Hawaiian: ʻuala
Hebrew: בָּטָטָה (he) (batáta)
Hindi: शकरकन्द (hi) m (śakarkand)
Hungarian: édesburgonya (hu)
Icelandic: sætar kartöflur
Ido: patato (io)
Ilocano: kamote
Indonesian: ubi jalar (id), keledek (id)
Irish: práta milis, práta Spáinneach m
Italian: patata dolce f, patata americana f, batata (it) f
Ivatan: wakay
Japanese: 薩摩芋 (ja) (さつまいも, satsumaimo), サツマイモ (ja) (satsumaimo), 甘藷 (ja) (かんしょ, kansho)
Jeju: 감저 (gamjeo)
Jingpho: naisam
Kapampangan: kamuti
Kavalan: qawpiR
Kazakh: батат (batat)
Khmer: ដំឡូងជ្វា (dɑmloung cviə)
Korean: 고구마 (ko) (goguma)
Kyrgyz: батат (batat)
Lao: ມັນເທດ (man thēt), ມັນດ້າງ (lo) (man dāng)
Latvian: batāte (lv) f
Lithuanian: batatas (lt)
Macedonian: сладок компир m (sladok kompir)
Malagasy: vomanga (mg)
Malay: ubi keledek, keledek
Malayalam: മധുരക്കിഴങ്ങ് (ml) (madhurakkiḻaṅṅŭ)
Maltese: patata ħelwa f
Manchu: ᠯᠠᡵᡥᡡᠨ (larhūn)
Maori: kūmara, kūmera
Mbyá Guaraní: jety
Mongolian: амтат тѳмс (amtat töms)
Nahuatl: camohtli (nah)
Navajo: nahooyéí, nímasii łikaní, nímasii dinilkanígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: søtpotet m
Okinawan: 唐芋 (とーっんむ, tō'nmu)
Persian: سیب‌زمینی شیرین (sib-zamini-ye širin)
Polish: batat (pl) m
Portuguese: batata-doce (pt) f
Punjabi: ਸ਼ਕਰਕੰਦੀ (pa) f (śakrakandī)
Quechua: kumar, apichu (qu) (Cuzco-Collao, South Bolivia)
Rapa Nui: kuma porá
Romanian: batat (ro) m
Russian: бата́т (ru) m (batát), сла́дкий карто́фель m (sládkij kartófelʹ), сла́дкая карто́шка f (sládkaja kartóška) (colloquial)
Rwanda-Rundi: ikijumba
Saisiyat: 'aewpir
Sebop: uvi' jup
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: батат m

Roman: batat m
Shan: ႁူဝ်မၼ်းလႅင် (hǒ mán lěng)
Sinhalese: බතල (batala)
Slovak: povojník batátový m
Slovene: batata f
Southeast Ijo: kukunduku (Nembe)
Spanish: batata (es) f (Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela), boniato (es) m (Spain, Cuba, Uruguay), camote (es) m (Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Western Argentina), apichu (es) m (Peru), chaco (es) m (Venezuela)
Swahili: kiazi kitamu
Swedish: sötpotatis (sv), batat (sv)
Tagal Murut: pallavan
Tagalog: kamote (tl)
Tamil: வத்தாளைக் கிழங்கு (vattāḷaik kiḻaṅku)
Telugu: చిలగడదుంప (te) (cilagaḍadumpa)
Tetum: uhi
Thai: มันเทศ (man-têet)
Tibetan: གྲོ་མ (gro ma)
Tongan: kumala
Turkish: tatlı patates (tr)
Tày: mằn bủng
Ukrainian: бата́т m (batát), соло́дка карто́пля f (solódka kartóplja)
Urapmin: wan
Urdu: شکرقندی f (śakarqandi)
Uzbek: batat
Vietnamese: khoai lang (vi)
Wapishana: kaazuu
Welsh: tatws melys (cy) f pl
Winnebago: toosgu
Wolof: pataas (wo)
Yoruba: ànàmọ́, kúkúndùkú

yam — see yam

ocarina — see ocarina

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