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taro

Portuguese, noun

taro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “taro (Colocasia esculenta; edible corm of the taro plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tarar. With an accent, taró is a different word: “snare (type of drum)”. With an accent, tarô is a different word: “tarot (set of playing cards used for divination)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tubérculo das ilhas de Samoa utilizado na alimentação”.

What does taro mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetaro (Colocasia esculenta; edible corm of the taro plant)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of tarar

noun

as taró
  1. 1

    masculinesnare (type of drum)

noun

as taró
  1. 1

    Portugalmasculineintense cold

  2. 2

    Portugalmasculinea cold wind

noun

as taró
  1. 1

    masculinealternative form of tarô

noun

as tarô
  1. 1

    masculinetarot (set of playing cards used for divination)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. tubérculo das ilhas de Samoa utilizado na alimentação 2. fécula obtida de algumas plantas

noun: 1. conjunto de 78 cartas de baralho (também ditas lâminas) ilustradas por figuras simbólicas e usado para supostamente predizer o futuro e conhecer o que, no passado ou no presente, se encontra velado [O baralho é constituído de 22 arcanos maiores e 56 arcanos menores.]

noun: 1. jogo de interpretações ou arte divinatória que utiliza tais cartas

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of taro

  • taros plural
  • tarós plural
  • tarol alternative
  • tarôs plural
  • taró alternative
  • tarot alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to taro

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is taro in Portuguese?

taro appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).