gölevez

Meaning

taro (Colocasia esculenta)

Concepts

taro

Synonyms

kolokas

Translations

colocasia

taro

ñame

taro

papa china

pituca

ocumo chino

tubérculo de achín

ñampí

قُلْقَاس

yautía coco

Etymology

Cognate with Ottoman Turkish: قلقاس

In summary

Borrowed from Cypriot Greek κολοκάσι (kolokási) first into Cypriot Turkish where the most faithful forms are recorded (kolokas etc.) and then into Southern Anatolian dialects with various distortions. The form gölevez is from Mersin dialect. Replaced Ottoman Turkish قلقاس (kulkas) from Arabic قُلْقَاس (qulqās).