taro

Borrowed from Maori taro. Doublet of kalo, from Hawaiian.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹoʊ/, /ˈtɑɹoʊ/
• Rhymes: -æɹəʊ
• Homophone: tarot

taro (usually uncountable, plural taros)

1. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

   Synonyms: colocasia, elephant ears, eddo, old cocoyam

   • 2018, Lena Dominelli, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:

     The Jiasian region is famous for taro ice cream. Even though taro is the key ingredient in the ice cream, people in this area bought taro from other regions. During the post-Typhoon Morakot reconstruction process, JCA and other local organisations encouraged large numbers of farmers in Jiasian to grow taro. The Agriculture Bureau then started investing in Jiasian taro farming. Local taro ice cream makers are now using local taro to support local agriculture.

2. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
3. Food from a taro plant.

   Synonyms: dasheen, madumbi, eddo

• (similar plants): giant taro, Alocasia and species, especially Alocasia macrorrhizos; swamp taro, Cyrtosperma merkusii; Xanthosoma sagittifolium; yam, purple yam; ube

• Chinese taro, chinese taro (Alocasia cucullata)
• giant swamp taro (Cyrtosperma merkusii)
• giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos)
• metallic taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos)
• swamp taro (Cyrtosperma merkusii)
• taro cake
• taro flying frog (Rhacophorus taronensis)
• taro-patch fiddle

• Tok Pisin: taro

• -ator, Rato, rato, aort-, oart, Rota, Orta, RATO, Roat, rota

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʁo/

• Audio:

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Borrowed from Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

taro m (plural taros)

1. taro (plant)

   Synonym: colocase

Clipping of tarif  +‎ -o

taro m (plural taros)

1. Slang form of tarif (“price”)
   • 2024 April 17, “Les vitesses” (2:30 from the start), Batbat (lyrics)‎^[2]:

     On paie avec l’argent de la mort
     Mille 2 le taro d’la galette

     One pays blood money
     Thousand and two the price of the biscuit

taro (inconjugable)

1. (slang) to have sex with

   Synonyms: bouillave, mougou, gbra, niquer

• “taro”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unknown. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾo̝/

taro m (plural taros)

1. sandbank

   Synonyms: banco, barra, restinga, brica, sirte

2. peak, mountain

   Synonyms: cotarro, outeiro

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “taro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “taro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “taro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

taro

1. taro

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarare

• Rota, Torà, arto, atro, rato, rota, torà

From Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

taro ?

1. star

• Eric Anonby, Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎^[3], pages 13-36

From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs (compare with Malay talas and Javanese tales).^[1]

taro

1. taro
2. bread

• → English: taro
  • Tok Pisin: taro
• → French: taro
• → German: Taro

• “taro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

taro

1. wax

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

taro

1. nominative singular of tara (“the Pali root tar”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.rɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧ro

taro f

1. vocative singular of tara

• Rhymes: -aɾu

taro m (plural taros)

1. taro (Colocasia esculenta; edible corm of the taro plant)

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarar

From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

taro

1. taro

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾo/ [ˈt̪a.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: ta‧ro

taro m (uncountable)

1. taro

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarar

From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

taro

1. taro

From English taro.

taro

1. The taro plant.
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎^[4], →ISBN, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtarɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈta(ː)rɔ/
• Rhymes: -arɔ

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn; pierce”).

• tarawo

taro (first-person singular present trawaf)

1. to strike, hit
2. to jot down, to note

From English taro, from Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taləs.

taro m (uncountable)

1. taro

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “taro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

taro

1. wax
2. candle