cassava

English

Cassava

Alternative forms

• cassaba, cassada

Etymology

From Portuguese cassave, from Taíno *kasabi (“cassava flour”) (compare Garifuna sibiba), from Proto-Arawak *sapi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈsɑːvə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

Noun

cassava (countable and uncountable, plural cassavas)

1. Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.

   Synonym: yuca

2. Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots.
   • 1677, Thomas Holyoke [i.e., Thomas Holyoake], “Jucca”, in A Large Dictionary: In Three Parts: I. The English before the Latin, [...] II. The Latin before the English, [...] III. The Proper Names of Persons, Places, and Other Things Necessary to the Understanding of Historians and Poets. [...], London: Printed for W[illiam] Rawlins, for G[eorge] Sawbridge, W[illiam] Place, T[homas] Basset, T[homas] Dring, J[ohn] Leigh, and J[ohn] Place, →OCLC:

     Jucca, ſive Yucca Peruana. The root whereof the bread Caſua, or Cazava is made.

Derived terms

• cassava wood

Translations

manioc, the source of tapioca

• Arabic:

  Juba Arabic: bafra

• Armenian: հացարմատ (hy) (hacʻarmat)
• Banyumasan: ꦗꦮꦮ꧀ (jawaw), ꦗꦮꦲꦸ (jawau), ꦒꦸꦩ꧀ꦧꦶꦭꦶ​ꦏꦪꦸ (gumbili kayu)
• Baoule: agba
• Bengali: কাসাভা (kaśabha)
• Bikol Central: balinghoy
• Burmese: ပီလောပီနံ (my) (pilau:pinam)
• Catalan: mandioca f, iuca f
• Cebuano: balanghoy
• Chichewa: chinangwa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 木薯 (muk⁶ syu⁴)

  Mandarin: 木薯 (zh) (mùshǔ)

• Cocama: yahuiri
• Duala: makwamba
• Dutch: cassave (nl)
• Esperanto: manioko
• Estonian: maniokk
• Ewe: agbeli n
• Ewondo: mbong
• Fijian: tavioka
• Finnish: maniokki (fi)
• French: manioc (fr) m
• German: Maniok (de) m, Mandioka f, Kassawa f, Kassava f
• Guaraní: mandi'o
• Hausa: rogo
• Hindi: सागू (hi) m (sāgū)
• Igbo: akpu
• Ilocano: balinghoy
• Indonesian: ubi kayu (id), ketela pohon (id), singkong (id)
• Italian: manioca f
• Japanese: キャッサバ (kyassaba)
• Javanese: ꦏꦼꦠꦺꦭ​ꦥꦺꦴꦲꦸꦁ (ketéla pohung), ꦱꦶꦁꦏꦺꦴꦁ (singkong), ꦏꦱ꧀ꦥꦺ (kaspé)
• Kannada: ಮರಗೆಣಸು (kn) (marageṇasu)
• Kapampangan: kamuting bagin, kamuting dutung
• Khmer: ដំឡូងមី (dɑmloungmii), ដំឡូងឈើ (dɑmloungchəə)
• Kikuyu: mwanga class 3
• Kongo: mandioko
• Korean: 카사바 (kasaba), 마니옥 (maniok)
• Koyraboro Senni: bananku
• Lao: ມັນຕົ້ນ (lo) (man ton)
• Lingala: nsɔngɔ́, manyɔ́kɔ, mbala
• Lokono: bosoli, kanaküdi
• Malagasy: mangahazo (mg)
• Malay: ubi kayu
• Malayalam: മരച്ചീനി (ml) (maraccīni)
• Maori: tapioka, kahawa
• Minangkabau: ubi parancih, ubi kayu, singkong
• Nahuatl: cuauhcamohtli
• Ngazidja Comorian: mhogo class 3/4
• Ngiti: mɔ᷅kɔ̀
• Polish: maniok (pl) m, kassawa f
• Portuguese: mandioca (pt) f, aipim (pt) m, macaxeira (pt) f
• Quechua: rumu, yuka; lumu (Napo Lowland Quechua)
• Romanian: manioc (ro) m
• Russian: манио́к (ru) m (maniók), манио́ка (ru) f (manióka), манио́т (ru) m (maniót)
• Rwanda-Rundi: inyumbati
• Soninke: bantara
• Spanish: mandioca (es) f, yuca (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: kasaba
• Sundanese: ᮞᮙ᮪ᮕᮩ (sampeu)
• Swahili: muhogo
• Tagalog: kamoteng-kahoy, balinghoy
• Tahitian: māniota
• Taíno: caçabi
• Tamil: மரவள்ளி (ta) (maravaḷḷi)
• Tariana: káini
• Tetum: ai-farina
• Thai: มันสำปะหลัง (th)
• Tongan: mānioke
• Trumai: ole
• Vietnamese: sắn (vi), khoai mì (vi)
• Waray-Waray: bilanghoy, balinghoy, lagikway
• Wolof: pulloox
• Yoruba: ẹ̀gẹ́
• Zhuang: moegsawz, maenzfaex

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: maniok
• Bambara: bananku
• Czech: maniok
• Danish: maniok
• Fijian: tapioka (fj)
• Guaraní: mandio
• Gujarati: mogho
• Haitian Creole: manyok
• Ilocano: tugi
• Indonesian: singkong (id), ubi kayu (id)
• Interlingua: cassava
• Kannada: mara genasu
• Luganda: muwogo
• Malay: singkong, ubi kayu
• Malayalam: kappa, maracheeni
• Rotuman: maniok
• Sinhalese: mannyokka
• Swedish: kassava, maniok (sv)
• Tagalog: balinghoy
• Tamil: maravalli kilangu, kuchivalli kilangu
• Thai: มันสำปะหลัง (th)
• Tulu: mara kereng

References

• Cassava on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Manihot esculenta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Italian

Verb

cassava

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of cassare

Portuguese

Verb

cassava

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of cassar