tapioca

English

Etymology

From Portuguese tapioca, from Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /tæpiˈoʊkə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

tapioca (countable and uncountable, plural tapiocas)

1. A starchy food made from the cassava plant, used in puddings.
   • 2009, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 286:

     Fish eyes and glue we used to call the half-cooked, large-grained, starchy tapioca without flavour that we were served every week in our residence at university. How I longed for the creamy pudding Mother used to make.

2. The cassava plant, Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is derived; manioc.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:

     When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.

Derived terms

• pearl tapioca
• tapioca fish
• tapioca pearl
• tapioca pudding
• tapioca starch

 

Translations

starchy food from cassava

• Armenian: տապիոկա (tapioka)
• Belarusian: тапіёка f (tapijóka)
• Bengali: ট্যাপিওকা (ṭêpiōka)
• Burmese: သာဂူ (my) (sagu)
• Central Dusun: mundok
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 樹薯／树薯 (chhiū-chî, chhiū-chû)

  Mandarin: 木薯 (zh) (mùshǔ)

• Czech: tapioka f
• Esperanto: tapioko
• Finnish: tapioka
• French: tapioca (fr) m
• German: Tapioka f
• Greek: ταπιόκα f (tapióka)
• Hindi: साबूदाना (hi) m (sābūdānā)
• Hungarian: tápióka (hu)
• Indonesian: tapioka (id), kanji (id)
• Interlingua: tapioca
• Irish: taipióca f
• Italian: tapioca (it) f
• Japanese: タピオカ (ja) (tapioka)
• Malay: ubi kayu, kaspe, singkong, sampa, ubi sampa, ubi jenderal, ubi perancis
• Maltese: tapjoka f
• Maori: tapioka
• Marathi: साबुदाणा m (sābudāṇā)
• Portuguese: tapioca (pt) f
• Romanian: tapiocă (ro) f
• Russian: тапио́ка (ru) f (tapióka)
• Spanish: tapioca (es)
• Sundanese: sampeu (su), singkong
• Swedish: tapioka (sv) c
• Tagalog: tapyoka
• Tamil: ஆளுவல்லி (āḷuvalli)
• Telugu: కర్రపెండలం (karrapeṇḍalaṁ)
• Turkish: tapyoka (tr)
• Ukrainian: тапіо́ка f (tapióka)
• Vietnamese: bột báng

Further reading

• tapioca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.pjɔ.ka/

• Audio

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Noun

tapioca m (plural tapiocas)

1. tapioca

Further reading

• “tapioca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

tapioca f (plural tapioche)

1. tapioca

Anagrams

• apatico, atopica, capotai, copiata, opacati, opacità

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.piˈɔ.kɐ/ [ta.pɪˈɔ.kɐ], (faster pronunciation) /taˈpjɔ.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.piˈɔ.kɐ/ [ta.pɪˈɔ.kɐ], (faster pronunciation) /taˈpjɔ.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.piˈɔ.ka/ [ta.pɪˈɔ.ka], (faster pronunciation) /taˈpjɔ.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈpjɔ.kɐ/

Noun

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

1. tapioca (starchy food made from cassava)

Spanish

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Tupi tapi'oka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈpjoka/ [t̪aˈpjo.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: ta‧pio‧ca

Noun

tapioca f (plural tapiocas)

1. tapioca

Derived terms

• perlas de tapioca

 

Further reading

• “tapioca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014