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بَطاطا
potato /baˈtˤɑːtˤɑ/
nounB2#3091 most common
Also: potatoes (collective)
Example sentences
أنا أحب البطاطا.
I like potatoes.
اشتريت كيلو بطاطا من السوق.
I bought a kilo of potatoes from the market.
أمي تطبخ البطاطا كل يوم جمعة.
My mother cooks potatoes every Friday.
قشّرت البطاطا قبل أن أسلقها.
I peeled the potatoes before boiling them.
تُعتبر البطاطا من أكثر المحاصيل زراعة في العالم.
Potatoes are considered one of the most widely cultivated crops in the world.
على الرغم من ارتفاع أسعار البطاطا هذا الموسم، إلا أن الطلب عليها لم ينخفض.
Despite the rise in potato prices this season, demand for them has not dropped.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بَطاطا | بَطاطا |
| Genitive | بَطاطا | بَطاطا |
| Accusative | بَطاطا | بَطاطا |
| Vocative | يا بَطاطا | يا بَطاطا |
Word family
بَطاطا حلوةsweet potato
بَطاطسpotato (Egyptian dialect term)
بَطاطا مقليةfried potatoes, fries
قِشر البَطاطاpotato peel
حَبّة بَطاطاa single potato
Etymology
بطاطا is a loanword, not a native Arabic root. It traces back to the Taino word batata, the name for the sweet potato in the Caribbean, which Spanish colonizers picked up as batata. From Spanish and French the word spread into Arabic, where بطاطا came to mean the common potato rather than the sweet potato. Because it entered Arabic as a foreign noun, it does not fit the usual triliteral root pattern.
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