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Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata. Doublet of potato.
- (General American) IPA(key): /bəˈtɑ.tə/
batata (plural batatas)
- sweet potato (plant)
- sweet potato (foodstuff)
- 2007 December 26, Julia Moskin, “A Celebration of the New Year Ushers in a Bit of Japan”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
She uses broccoli rabe instead of aka takana (spicy mustard greens), shops in the Caribbean markets of her Washington Heights neighborhood for batatas rather than Japanese satsumaimo (yellow sweet potatoes), and has learned to love the local mofongo, the Dominican version of mashed plantains with lots of garlic.
- 2007 December 26, Julia Moskin, “A Celebration of the New Year Ushers in a Bit of Japan”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
batata f (plural batates)
- sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas)
Synonyms: moniatera, moniato - sweet potato tuber
Synonym: moniato
- patata
- “batata”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “batata”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
- “batata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- IPA(key): /baˈtata/
- Rhymes: -ata
- Syllabification: ba‧ta‧ta
batata (accusative singular batatan, plural batataj, accusative plural batatajn)
- singular present passive participle of bati
batata
- present passive participle of batar
Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata.
batata f (plural batate)
- sweet potato
Synonyms: patata americana, patata dolce
Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bàtààtá.
batata class 2
From Spanish batata and Portuguese batata and Kabuverdianu batata.
The Spanish word comes from Taíno batata.
batata
From Manado Malay batata, from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata.
batata
batatas
Borrowed from Spanish batata, from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).
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- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /baˈta.ta/
Rhymes: -atɐ
Hyphenation: ba‧ta‧ta
batata f (plural batatas)
→ Gujarati: બટાટો (baṭāṭo)
→ Kannada: ಬಟಾಟಿ (baṭāṭi)
→ Konkani: बटाट (baṭāṭ)
→ Makhuwa: patata
→ Marathi: बटाटा (baṭāṭā)
→ Sinhalese: බතල (batala)
→ Swahili: mbatata
“batata”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“batata”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
“batata”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
“batata”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Borrowed from Taíno batata. Doublet of patata.
batata f (plural batatas)
- (Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Canary Islands, parts of Argentina) sweet potato
Synonyms: (Cuba, Uruguay, Spain) boniato, (Mexico, Central America, Chile, Peru) camote, chaco, batata dulce, papa dulce, (Spain) patata dulce
- → Portuguese: batata
- “batata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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