# taro
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

taro (usually uncountable, plural taros)
* 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, 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.
* Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
* Food from a taro plant.
    Synonyms: dasheen, madumbi, eddo

#### Hyponyms

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

#### Derived terms

* 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

#### Descendants

* Tok Pisin: taro

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.ʁo/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

taro m (plural taros)
* taro (plant)
    Synonym: colocase

### Etymology 2

Clipping of tarif +‎ -o

#### Noun

taro m (plural taros)
* Slang form of tarif (“price”)
** 2024 April 17, “Les vitesses” (2:30 from the start), Batbat (lyrics)‎:On paie avec l’argent de la mort Mille 2 le taro d’la galetteOne pays blood money Thousand and two the price of the biscuit

#### Verb

taro (inconjugable)
* (slang) to have sex with
    Synonyms: bouillave, mougou, gbra, niquer

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaɾo̝/

### Noun

taro m (plural taros)
* sandbank
    Synonyms: banco, barra, restinga, brica, sirte
* peak, mountain
    Synonyms: cotarro, outeiro

### References

* 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

## Hiri Motu
### Noun

taro
* taro

## Italian
### Verb

taro
* first-person singular present indicative of tarare

### Anagrams

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

## Kholosi
### Etymology

From Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

### Noun

taro ?
* star

### References

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

## Maori
### Etymology

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

### Noun

taro
* taro
* bread

#### Descendants

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

### References

* ↑ “Talo”, in Te Māra Reo: The Language Garden, Benton Family Trust, 2022

### Further reading

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

## Maranao
### Noun

taro
* wax

### References

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

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀢𑀭𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* तरो (Devanagari script)
* তরো (Bengali script)
* තරො (Sinhalese script)
* တရော or တရေႃ (Burmese script)
* ตโร or ตะโร (Thai script)
* ᨲᩁᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ຕໂຣ or ຕະໂຣ (Lao script)
* តរោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄖𑄢𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Noun

taro
* nominative singular of tara (“the Pali root tar”)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.rɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arɔ
* Syllabification: ta‧ro

### Noun

taro f
* vocative singular of tara

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ɾu/
* Rhymes: -aɾu

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

taro m (plural taros)
* taro (Colocasia esculenta; edible corm of the taro plant)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

taro
* first-person singular present indicative of tarar

## Rapa Nui
### Etymology

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

### Noun

taro
* taro

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaɾo/ [ˈt̪a.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -aɾo
* Syllabification: ta‧ro

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

taro m (uncountable)
* taro

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

taro
* first-person singular present indicative of tarar

## Tahitian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

taro
* taro

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English taro.

### Noun

taro
* The taro plant.
** 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎, →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)

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈtarɔ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈta(ː)rɔ/
* Rhymes: -arɔ

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* tarawo

#### Verb

taro (first-person singular present trawaf)
* to strike, hit
* to jot down, to note

##### Conjugation

| | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | impersonal | impersonal |
| | first | second | third | first | second | third | impersonal | impersonal |
| present indicative/future | trawaf | trewi | tery, trawa | trawn | trewch | trawant | trewir |
| imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional | trawn | trawit | trawai | trawem | trawech | trawent | trewid |
| preterite | trewais | trewaist | trawodd | trawsom | trawsoch | trawsant | trawyd |
| pluperfect | trawswn | trawsit | trawsai | trawsem | trawsech | trawsent | trawsid, trewsid |
| present subjunctive | trawyf | trewych | trawo | trawom | trawoch | trawont | trawer |
| imperative | — | taro | trawed | trawn | trewch | trawent | trawer |
| verbal noun | taro | taro | taro | taro | taro | taro | taro |
| verbal adjectives | trawedig trawadwy | trawedig trawadwy | trawedig trawadwy | trawedig trawadwy | trawedig trawadwy | trawedig trawadwy | trawedig trawadwy |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

##### Derived terms

* taro allan (“to set off (on a journey); to break out (in song)”)
* taro ar (“to hit upon, to come across”)
* taro at (“to set about; to allude to”)
* taro bargen (“to strike a bargain”)
* taro cis ar (“to touch upon, to refer to”)
* taro cnec (“to fart”)
* taro deuddeg (“to hit the right note”, literally “to hit twelve”)
* taro ei big mewn (“to butt in, to interrupt”, literally “to strike one's beak in”)
* taro golwg (“to glance”)
* taro gwaed (“to draw blood”)
* taro gyda (“to join (oneself to a group)”)
* taro haearn ar (“to iron (clothes)”)
* taro heibio, taro i (“to drop in, to pop in”)
* taro i feddwl (“to strike one's mind, to occur to one”)
* taro i lawr (“to jot down”)
* taro llygad ar (“to set eyes on”)
* taro llygad dros (“to glance around”)
* taro rhech (“to fart”)
* taro tant (“to strike a chord”)
* taro untrew (“to sneeze”)
* taro wrth (“to hit upon, to come across”)
* taro ymlaen (“to knock on (in rugby)”)
* taro yn ei ben (“to strike one's mind”, literally “to strike in one's head”)
* taro yn ei dalcen (“to put to an end”)
* taro'r bai ar (“to lay the blame on, to blame”)
* taro'r nod (“to hit the mark”)
* taro'r tant mawr (“to ride the high horse”, literally “to strike the big note”)
* taro’r hoel ar ei chlopa (“to hit the nail on the head”)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

taro m (uncountable)
* taro

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tara-wo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 370-1

### Further reading

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

## Yami
### Noun

taro
* wax
* candle