kamote

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kamote (plural kamotes)

1. (Philippines, rare) sweet potato

• kamote tops

• matoke

Borrowed from Spanish camote (“sweet potato”), from Classical Nahuatl camohtli.

kamote

1. sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
2. the tuber of this plant

Borrowed from Spanish camote (“sweet potato”), from Classical Nahuatl camohtli.

• Hyphenation: ka‧mo‧te
• IPA^(key): /kaˈmote/

kamote

1. sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
2. the tuber of this plant
3. (informal) failure, botched attempt

   Synonym: kalabasa

kamote

1. (informal) stupid

   Synonyms: patal, bobo, pangol, tonto, tonta

Borrowed from Spanish camote (“sweet potato”), from Classical Nahuatl camohtli.

• Hyphenation: ka‧mo‧te
• IPA^(key): /kaˈmote/, [kʌˈmu.t̪ɪ]

kamote

1. sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
2. the tuber of this plant

Borrowed from Spanish camote (“sweet potato”), from Classical Nahuatl camohtli. Senses about performing badly is possibly an expression about students should instead plant potatoes, or a play on the word kamot (“scrach”), about scratching one's heads when unable to know what to do.

• Hyphenation: ka‧mo‧te
• IPA^(key): /kaˈmote/, [kɐˈmo.tɛ]

kamote (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜆᜒ)

1. sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
2. the tuber of this plant
3. (slang) act of performing badly on a task
4. (slang, by extension) a driver with little or no regard for the rules of the road

• patatas

kamote (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜆᜒ)

1. (slang) puzzled; unable to figure out how to resolve a problem or a task

• loko

• “kamote”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018