different between taro vs aro

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæ???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??o?/, /?t??o?/
• Rhymes: -æ???
• Homophone: tarot

Noun

taro (usually uncountable, plural taros)

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

   Synonyms: colocasia, elephant ears

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

   Synonym: dasheen

Hyponyms

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

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 flying frog (Rhacophorus taronensis)
• taro-patch fiddle

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: taro

Translations

See also

• eddo

Anagrams

• -ator, RATO, Rato, Roat, Rota, rato, rota

French

Etymology

From Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tal?s

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.?o/

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. taro (plant)

Synonyms

• colocase

Further reading

• “taro” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?o?/

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

1. sandbank

   Synonyms: banco, barra, restinga, brica, sirte

2. peak, mountain

   Synonyms: cotarro, outeiro

References

• “taro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “taro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “taro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hiri Motu

Noun

taro

1. taro

Italian

Verb

taro

1. first-person singular present indicative of tarare

Anagrams

• arto, atro, rota

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (t?r?).

Noun

taro ?

1. 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?^[1], pages 13-36

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tal?s (compare Javanese talas).

Noun

taro

1. taro
2. bread

Descendants

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

Maranao

Noun

taro

1. wax

References

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.r?/

Noun

taro f

1. vocative singular of tara

Portuguese

Noun

taro m (plural taros)

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

Spanish

Verb

taro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tarar.

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tal?s

Noun

taro

1. taro

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English taro.

Noun

taro

1. The taro plant.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?tar?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ta?r?/, /?tar?/

Etymology 1

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

Verb

taro (first-person singular present trawaf)

1. to strike, hit

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From English taro, from Maori taro, from Proto-Polynesian *talo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tal?s.

Noun

taro m (uncountable)

1. taro

Mutation

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

1. wax
2. candle

English

Etymology

Clipping of aromantic. Coined on the Internet in the 2010s.

Pronunciation

Adjective

aro (comparative more aro, superlative most aro)

1. (slang, neologism) Aromantic (not experiencing romantic attraction).
   • 2016, Laura Chan, "My sexual preference is nope", Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie University), 12 February - 18 February 2016, page 16:

     For ace and aro people, the possibilities for diverse relationships are endless, despite how pop culture often brands our identity as restrictive and confined.

   • 2017, Melissa Reph, "You might not like hearing this, but I don't like 'Riverdale'", The Muhlenberg Weekly (Muhlenberg College), 26 October 2017, page 3:

     For the show to completely and utterly ignore this is huge since there are very few representations of aro and ace-spec people in media of any kind.

   • 2018, Alexis Stark, "A-spectrum student experiences on MSU's campus", The State News (Michigan State University), 29 November 2018, page 5:

     This provides a home base for people looking to learn more about ace and aro identities.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:aro.

Noun

aro (plural aros)

1. (slang, neologism) A person who is aromantic.
   • 2016, Laura Chan, "My sexual preference is nope", Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie University), 12 February - 18 February 2016, page 16:

     While aces and aros can often be a misunderstood demographic in the queer community and outside of it, information about our identities is making its way into more conversations.

   • 2018, Isabel Nathan, "Asexuals, you are not alone", Washington Blade, 19 October 2018, page 20:

     Now most of my social circle is made up of other aces and aros.

   • 2019, Chelaine Kirsh, "Let's talk about aces, baby", The Sheaf (University of Saskatchewan), 24 October 2019, page 11:

     Building off from this calling card, aros have a more obscure variation of this where they don white rings.

See also

• ace

Anagrams

• AOR, AoR, OAR, Ora, ROA, Rao, Roa, oar, ora

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???o/

Noun

aró f 

1. bite (act of biting)

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Basque

Noun

aro inan

1. age

References

• Gorka Aulestia, Linda White, Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary

Esperanto

Etymology

Back-formation from -aro (“collection”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aro/
• Hyphenation: a?ro
• Rhymes: -aro
• Audio:

Noun

aro (accusative singular aron, plural aroj, accusative plural arojn)

1. bunch

Related terms

• ari?i

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aro (compare Estonian aru), probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ar? (compare Khanty [script needed] (ur?, ur?), Mansi [script needed] (or?j, or?j)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ro/, [??ro?]
• Rhymes: -?ro
• Syllabification: a?ro

Noun

aro

1. steppe
2. (dialectal) humid or swampy meadow or plain

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ora

Garo

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Bengali ?? (ar).

Conjunction

aro

1. and, in addition to

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?^[2], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 337

Hiligaynon

Noun

arô

1. leprosy

Italian

Verb

aro

1. first-person singular present indicative of arare

Anagrams

• ora

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ara?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éryeti (“to plough”), from the root *h?erh?-. The root-final laryngeal was lost in the Proto-Indo-European verb, but was restored in Proto-Italic.

Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (aró?), Old Church Slavonic ????? (orati), Lithuanian arti, and Old English erian (archaic English ear).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ro?/, [?ä?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.ro/, [?????]

Verb

ar? (present infinitive ar?re, perfect active ar?v?, supine ar?tum); first conjugation

1. I plough, till; I cultivate land, farm; I acquire by tillage
2. (of age) I draw furrows over the body, wrinkle

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• aro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• aro in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Malagasy

Noun

aro

1. defense; protection

Adjective

aro

1. (dialectal, Betsimisaraka) Synonym of roa

Mansaka

Noun

aro

1. pestle
2. pole for pounding rice

Noun

arò

1. fog

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qaro, from Proto-Oceanic *qarop, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qad?p.

Noun

aro

1. front (facing side)

   Kua maringi i a koe ki runga i to aro.

   You've spilt it down your front.

2. front (weather)

   Ko te paenga e t?taki ai ?tahi hau whakapipi e rua, ka k?ia he aro.

   The boundary where two air masses meet is called a front.

Verb

aro

1. (transitive) to turn toward something or someone

   Me aro te kaik?rero ki te hunga turi, kia kite ai r?tou i t?na waha e k?rero na.

   The speaker should face toward the deaf people so that they can see her mouth when she is talking.

References

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

Nauruan

Etymology

From Pre-Nauruan *rua-ua, from Proto-Micronesian *rua, from Proto-Oceanic *rua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa.

Numeral

aro

1. two

Old High German

Etymology

Same as arn.

Noun

aro m

1. eagle

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.?u/
• Hyphenation: a?ro

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese aro of uncertain origin. Cognate with Spanish aro.

Noun

aro m (plural aros)

1. any large circular band of material
   1. hoop (circular band of metal used to bind a barrel)
   2. rim (outer edge of a wheel)
   3. the frame of eyeglasses

      Synonym: armação

   4. juggling ring

      Synonym: argola

2. the region surrounding a city

   Synonym: periferia

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• arão, arum, árum, jarro, jaro

Noun

aro m (plural aros)

1. arum (any plant in the genus Arum)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

aro

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of arar

Romani

Noun

aro m

1. flour

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?o/, [?a.?o]
• Rhymes: -a?o
• Hyphenation: a?ro

Etymology 1

Unknown origin.

Noun

aro m (plural aros)

1. hoop
2. large ring
3. (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay) earring

   Synonyms: arete, pendiente

Derived terms

• arete

See also

• anillo
• argolla
• sortija

Etymology 2

From Latin arum.

Noun

aro m (plural aros)

1. arum lily

Alternative forms

• jaro, yaro

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

aro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of arar.

Further reading

• “aro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Yami

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hadu, from Proto-Austronesian *Sadu. Cognate with Puyuma sadru and Limos Kalinga adu.

Adjective

aro

1. many; a lot