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Ĭolocasia esculenta has other names in different languages. In India, it is used in huge quantities in the Odisha region. In the Odia language, it is called Saru (ସାରୁ).
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proto-Mon-Khmer *t 2rawʔ, Khasi shriew, Khmu sroʔ). However, irregularity in sound correspondences among the cognate forms in Austronesian suggests that the term may have been borrowed from an Austroasiatic language perhaps somewhere in Borneo and spread from there (cf. dalo in Fijian) and Proto-Austronesian *tales (cf. All these forms originate from Proto-Polynesian * talo, which itself descended from Proto-Oceanic *talos (cf. The form taro or talo is widespread among Polynesian languages: taro in Tahitian talo in Samoan and Tongan kalo in Hawaiian taʻo in Marquesan. The English term taro was borrowed from the Māori language of New Zealand when Captain Cook first observed plantations of Colocasia tubers there in 1769. Taro corms are a food staple in African, Oceanic, and South Asian cultures (similar to yams), and taro is believed to have been one of the earliest cultivated plants. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles. inval.Ĭolocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, a root vegetable most commonly known as taro ( / ˈ t ɑː r oʊ, ˈ t æ r oʊ/), among many other names (see § Names and etymology below).