kamote

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

• IPA^(key): /kəˈmoʊ.teɪ/

kamote (plural kamotes)

1. (Philippines) Alternative form of camote.

• kamote tops

• matoke

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

kamote

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

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

• IPA^(key): /kaˈmote/ [kaˈmo.te]

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• Hyphenation: ka‧mo‧te

kamóte (Basahan spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜆᜒ)

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

   Synonym: kalabasa

kamóte (Basahan spelling ᜃᜋᜓᜆᜒ)

1. (informal) stupid

   Synonyms: patal, palpal, pulpol, pangol, bobo, boba, tonto, tonta

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

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

kamote

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

• kamuti — obsolete

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

The sense about performing badly is possibly an expression suggesting students should instead plant potatoes, or possibly a play on the word kamot (“scratch”), about scratching one's head when not knowing what to do. However, this sense already exists as part of Mexican Spanish slang: see verb Spanish camotear (“to wander with no specific purpose in mind”).

Compare Chamorro kamote (“shucks; dang it”) and kamuti (“sweet potato”). See also Hokkien 大番薯 (tōa-han-chî), Cantonese 大番薯 (daai⁶ faan¹ syu^4-2), Hakka 大番薯.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈmote/ [kɐˈmoː.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: ka‧mo‧te

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, most likely a motorcycle 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

• → Hokkien: ka-mú-tī

• loko

• “kamote”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993), Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎^[1], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 104

• kometa