different between taro vs tarot

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

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?tæ???/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?t??o?/
• Rhymes: -ær??
• Homophone: taro

Noun

tarot (countable and uncountable, plural tarots)

1. (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
   • 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.

     […] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.

   • 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [1]

     They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.

     As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.

   • 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [2]

     In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; […]

2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• tarot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ratto, Tatro, ottar, rotta, tator, torat, torta, troat

Danish

Alternative forms

• tarok

Pronunciation

Noun

tarot c (singular definite tarotten, plural indefinite tarotter)

1. tarot

Declension

Further reading

• “tarot” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “tarok” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

French

Etymology

From Italian tarocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.?o/
• Homophones: taraud, tarauds, taro

Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

1. tarot

Derived terms

• taroté
• taroter
• tarotier

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rotât

Polish

Etymology

From French tarot, from Italian tarocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.r?t/

Noun

tarot m inan

1. (card games) tarot

   Synonym: tarok

2. (cartomancy) tarot (any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination)

   Synonym: tarok

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) tarocista, tarocistka

Further reading

• tarot in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tarot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French tarot, from Italian tarocchi.

Noun

tarot m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. tarot (card game)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta??ot/, [t?a??ot?]

Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

1. tarot