Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
→
potato
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Borrowing | |
| Language | Sanskrit | |
| Lexeme 1 | āluka | |
| Lexeme 2 | ālū | |
| Meaning 1 | Amorphophallus paeoniifolius | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | potato | |
| Reference | Beskrovnyj 1959 | |
| Comment | It came to refer to the potato in Hindi after the importation of potatoes to South Asia from the Americas by Europeans, displacing cultivation of the similar elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius. Also Bengali alu, Burmese alu, Sinhalese ala, Punjabi ālū, Rohingya alu, aalu, Pashto alu, Oriya aḷu. | |