aardappel

Meaning

1. (masculine) potato (tuber eaten as vegetable)
2. (masculine) potato plant (Solanum tuberosum)

Concepts

potato

🥔

spud

root vegetable

nightshade

yam

aloo

panipuri

Synonyms

pieper

patat

persoon

🧑‍🦱

aardaapel

Translations

Kartoffel

🥔

pomme de terre

🥔

patata

🥔

batata

🥔

patata

🥔

patates

🥔

papa

Erdapfel

🥔

batatinha

patata

🥔

بطاطا

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈaːr.dɑ.pəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch: *āerdappel

Cognate with Middle Low German: erdappel

Cognate with Low German: Erdappel

Cognate with Old High German: erdapful

Cognate with German: Erdapfel

Cognate with Western Frisian: ierappel

Cognate with Old English: eorþæppel

Cognate with English: earthapple

Cognate with Danish: jordæble

Cognate with Luxembourgish: Gromper

In summary

From Middle Dutch erdappel (“hog's bread”), equivalent to aarde (“soil, earth, ground”) + appel (“apple”), cognate with Middle Low German erdappel (modern Low German Erdappel), Old High German erdapful (“pumpkin, squash, melon”) (modern German Erdapfel (“potato”)), West Frisian ierappel (“potato”), Old English eorþæppel (“cucumber”) (rare modern English earthapple (“potato”)), Danish jordæble. Compare also French pomme de terre (“potato”), Luxembourgish Gromper (“potato”, literally “ground pear”), regional German Grundbirne (“ground pear”).
In the 16th and 17th centuries, used for various tubers and fruits that grow in or near the soil. Modern sense spread in the 18th century.

Sentences

De plant van de aardappel is giftig .

The potato plant is poisonous.