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Concept
Taro
Summary
Taro (ˈtɑːroʊ,_ˈtæroʊ) (Colocasia esculenta) is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, stems and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in African, Oceanic, East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian cultures (similar to yams). Taro is believed to be one of the earliest cultivated plants.
The English term taro was borrowed from the Māori language when Captain Cook first observed Colocasia plantations there in 1769. The form taro or talo is widespread among Polynesian languages: taro in Tahitian; talo in Samoan and Tongan; kalo in Hawaiian; tao in Marquesan. All these forms originate from Proto-Polynesian *talo, which itself descended from Proto-Oceanic *talos (cf. dalo in Fijian) and Proto-Austronesian *tales (cf. tales in Javanese). However, irregularity in sound correspondences among the cognate forms in Austronesian suggests that the term may have been borrowed and spread from an Austroasiatic language perhaps in Borneo (cf. proto-Mon-Khmer *t2rawʔ, Khasi shriew, Khmu sroʔ).
In the Odia language, it is called Saru (ସାରୁ). In India, it is widely used in the Odisha region.
In Cyprus, Colocasia has been in use since the Roman Empire. Today it is known as kolokasi (Kολοκάσι). It is usually cooked with celery and pork or chicken, in a tomato sauce in casserole. "Baby" kolokasi is called "poulles": after being fried dry, red wine and coriander seed are added, and then it is served with freshly squeezed lemon. Lately, some restaurants have begun serving thin slices of kolokasi deep fried, calling them "kolokasi chips".
Other names include amadumbe or madumbi in the Zulu language, "boina" in Wolaita language of Ethiopia, amateke in Kirundi and Kinyarwanda. In Madagascar, it is known as saonjo. It is called eddo in Liberia. It is dasheen in Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia and Jamaica. In Tanzania it is called magimbi in the Swahili language. The leaves are known as dasheen bush bhaji by Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonians.
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