sweet potato
/ˈswiːt pəˈteɪ.təʊ/US/ˈswit pəˈteɪ.toʊ/
sweet potato noun: a tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
Noun
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.
- The sweet potato is the article referred to as potato by Shakespeare and other English writers, previous to the middle of the seventeenth century.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...
- I go back to the kitchen and find a knife, still smeared with sweet potato and bits of pheasant meat.2013, Sherri L. Smith, chapter 12, in Orleans, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, part 2 (Freesteader), page 116
- An ocarina.
sweet potato meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sweet potato in Hindi
- tuber
- शकरकन्द śakarkand
- vine
- शकरकंद śakarkand
sweet potato in Tamil
- tuber
- சர்க்கரைவள்ளிக்கிழங்கு carkkaraivaḷḷikkiḻaṅku, வற்றாளைக்கிழங்கு vaṟṟāḷaikkiḻaṅku
- vine
- சர்க்கரைவள்ளிக்கிழங்கு carkkaraivaḷḷikkiḻaṅku, வற்றாளைக்கிழங்கு vaṟṟāḷaikkiḻaṅku
sweet potato in Marathi
- sweet potato
- रताळे ratāḷe
sweet potato in Urdu
- tuber
- شکرقندی śakarqandi
More languagesFewer languages
- sweet potato in Bengali
- মিষ্টি আলু miśṭi alu
- sweet potato in Telugu
- చిలగడదుంప cilagaḍadumpa
- sweet potato in Malayalam
- മധുരക്കിഴങ്ങ് madhurakkiḻaṅṅŭ
- sweet potato in Kannada
- ಗೆಳಸು, ಗೆಣಸು, ಸಿಹಿ ಗೆಣಸು, ಗೆೞಸು
- sweet potato in Punjabi
- ਸ਼ਕਰਕੰਦੀ śakrakandī
- sweet potato in Gujarati
- શકરિયું śakriyũ
- sweet potato in Sinhala
- බතල batala
- sweet potato in Assamese
- মিঠা আলু mitha alu, মিঠাআলু mithaalu
- sweet potato in Tagalog
- kamote
- sweet potato in Arabic
- بَطَاطَا حُلْوَة baṭāṭā ḥulwa, بَطَاطَا baṭāṭā, بَطَاطَة baṭāṭa
- sweet potato in Malay
- ubi keledek, keledek
- sweet potato in Indonesian
- ubi jalar, keledek
- sweet potato in Persian
- سیبزمینی شیرین sib-zamini-ye širin
- sweet potato in Thai
- มันเทศ man-têet
- sweet potato in Vietnamese
- khoai lang
- sweet potato in Myanmar
- ကန်စွန်းဥ kancwan:u.
Synonyms of sweet potato
Forms of sweet potato
| plural | sweet potatoes |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sweetpotato |
Origin of sweet potato
From sweet + potato. Compare Dutch zoete pataat, zoete bataat (“sweet potato”), German Süßbatate (“sweet potato”), Swedish sötpotatis (“sweet potato”), Norwegian søtpotet (“sweet potato”), Faroese søtpotta (“sweet potato”).
Words formed from sweet potato
- Cuban sweet potato
- Japanese sweet potato
- Okinawan sweet potato
- sweet-potatoey
- sweet-potato ring rot
- sweet potato vine
- sweet-potato whitefly
- tropical sweet potato
- white-fleshed sweet potato
- white sweet potatoe
- wild sweet potato
Questions about sweet potato
- What does sweet potato mean?
- Sweet potato means a tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
- What is sweet potato in Hindi?
- Sweet potato in Hindi is शकरकन्द (śakarkand), शकरकंद (śakarkand). See Sweet potato meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sweet potato?
- Sweet potato is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sweet potato?
- Sweet potato is pronounced /ˈswiːt pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sweet potato?
- The plural of sweet potato is sweet potatoes.
Words near sweet potato in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sweet potato (page history and authors); रताळे (Marathi) (page history and authors); sweet potato (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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