(Dioscorea spp.) Planta trepadora dioica, originaria de Asia y África, de tallos endebles y de tres a cuatro metros de largo, cultivada ampliamente por su tubérculo comestible.
çekim: çoğul ñames
eş: loco
köken: Probably from Wolof ñàmbi (“cassava”) or a related word. Compare Portuguese inhame.
taro (the Colocasia esculenta plant and its edible tuber)
çekim: çoğul κολοκάσια · tamlayan κολοκασιού
eş: Κολοκασία η εδώδιμος, τάρο
köken: From Cypriot Greek κολοκάσιν (kolokásin), from Byzantine Greek *κολοκάσιν (*kolokásin), from Ancient Greek κολοκάσιον (kolokásion), a parallel form of κολοκασία (kolokasía).
köken: From Ancient Greek κολοκασία (kolokasía), κολοκάσιον (kolokásion). Of uncertain Asiatic origin shared with Mishnaic Hebrew קולקס, קרקס (“taro”) and Arabic قُلْقَاس (qulqās, “taro”).