different between toro vs taro

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese ??.

Noun

toro (plural toros or toro)

1. A traditional Japanese lantern.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

toro

1. Rapanea salicina, a species of shrub or small tree native to New Zealand.

Anagrams

• Root, Toor, root, roto, roto-, troo

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin taurus. Compare Old Catalan and Occitan taur.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?.?o/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?t?.?u/

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. bull
2. bittern

Derived terms

• torejar

Further reading

• “toro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “toro” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “toro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “toro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

13th century. Inherited from Latin torus, cognate with Spanish tuero. In the second meaning it is rather a borrowing, but from the same source: Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to?o?/

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. tree trunk
   • 1277, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez (ed.), Os documentos do tombo de Toxos Outos. Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 112:

     todos estes disserun que a herdade dessa hermida de San Martino de Rates que era departida da outra herdade regaenga pela cerdeyra do outeyro que esta cabo do camino, et dessi como uay et enfia ao toro do castineiro de cyma que chaman da senrra do regaengo

     all of them said that the property of the hermitage of Saint Martin of Rates departed from the other royal property by the cherry tree of the hill, which is by the path, and from there in direction to the trunk of the chestnut tree above where they call the Senra do Reguengo

   Synonym: tora

2. tree round section

   Synonym: torada

3. round slice of fish

   Synonym: roda

Derived terms

• tora
• torada
• torar

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. (architecture, geometry) torus

References

• “toro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “toro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “toro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “toro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “toro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Noun

tóro

1. bull, ox

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English torus, French tore, German Torus, Italian toro, Russian ????? (torus), ultimately from Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?toro/

Noun

toro (plural tori)

1. (geometry, architecture) torus

Italian

Etymology

From Latin taurus, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.ro/
• Rhymes: -?ro

Noun

toro m (plural tori)

1. bull
2. Taurus
3. (mathematics, geometry) torus

Related terms

• taurino
• toreare
• torello
• torero
• toroidale

See also

• bue
• vacca
• vitello
• zodiacale

Anagrams

• orto, roto, rotò

Japanese

Romanization

toro

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Karitiâna

Noun

toro

1. otter

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??????/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with m?gwac?, nyam?, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including baba, guka, g?t?, m?gu?, m?twe, nyam?, ruo, r?h? (pl. h?), r?k? (pl. ng?), taata (“my aunt”), ?ta (pl. mota), ?thi? (pl. mothi?), and so on.

Noun

toro 14 (plural matoro)

1. sleep

References

Latin

Noun

tor?

1. dative singular of torus
2. ablative singular of torus

References

• toro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuzuq.

Verb

toro

1. to show
2. to point out, indicate

Related terms

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin torus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: to?ro

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. tree ring
2. torus (three dimensional shape)

San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro, from Latin taurus, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

Noun

toro (plural ndoro)

1. bull

References

• Stewart, Cloyd; Stewart, Ruth D.; colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)?^[1] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to?o/, [?t?o.?o]
• Rhymes: -o?o

Etymology 1

From Latin taurus (compare Italian toro, Portuguese touro, Romanian taur), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Doublet of Tauro.

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. bull

Derived terms

Related terms

• taurino

Descendants

• ? Navajo: dóola
• ? Northern Tepehuan: tuúru
• ? San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: toro
• ? Southeastern Tepehuan: tuur
• ? Taos: tùlu’úna
• ? Tetelcingo Nahuatl: turo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin torus (“swelling, bulge, cushion”). Doublet of the inherited tuero.

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. (geometry, architecture) torus

See also

• Toro (geometría) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• Toro (arquitectura) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Etymology 3

Noun

toro m (plural toros)

1. (colloquial) forklift (a small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved)

   Synonyms: carretilla, carretilla elevadora, grúa horquilla, montacargas

Anagrams

• orto, otro, roto

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish toro.

Noun

toro

1. bull

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