köken: Borrowed from Russian карто́шка (kartóška), from карто́фель (kartófelʹ), from German Kartoffel, from Italian tartufolo, diminutive of tartufo (“truffle”), from Medieval Latin *territūberum or Latin terrae tūber (“tuber of the earth”).
köken: Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 감저 (甘藷, gamjeo, “lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta)”). First attested 1766 in Korea, then referring to the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). The word came to refer to both potato and sweet potato in the nineteenth century, and later lost its original meaning.
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀆𑀮𑀼𑀕 (āluga), from Sanskrit आलुक (āluka, “elephant foot yam”). Doublet of आलु (ālu) and आलुक (āluk). The word began to be used in the sense "potato" after the importation of potatoes to South Asia from the Americas by Europeans, displacing cultivation of the similar elephant foot yam.
potato, Solanum tuberosum (plant and the tuber) · synonym of päärynä (“pear”)
çekim: çoğul perunat · tamlayan perunan
köken: Borrowed from Late Old Swedish pærun (“pear”) (compare dialectal Finnish Swedish pärun, perun and standard Swedish päron). Originally meant “pear”, in which sense it has been attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552); meaning shifted to “potato” in the late 18th century (first attested in 1787). Doublet of päärynä. Details on semantic shift When potatoes were first…
köken: Of Lower Sorbian origin. Compare Bramborska (“Brandenburg”). Interpreted as "crop from Brandenburg", as imported to Bohemia by Prussian soldiers during the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778–1779).