いも
Meanings
Noun
1. tuber; taro; potato; yam
2. yokel; bumpkin
3. dud; worthless thing
Kanji used
potato
Pitch accent
Top 10800
Used in vocabulary (65 in total)
hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar
roasted sweet potato; baked sweet potato
taro (Colocasia esculenta); dasheen; eddo
Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)
dried sweet potato; satsuma sweet potato steamed, sliced and dried
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
seed potato
Chinese yam (Dioscorea batatas)
(bar of) sweet-potato paste
potato (Solanum tuberosum)
sweet-potato vines
roasted sweet potato; baked sweet potato
candied sweet potato
Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)
potato (Solanum tuberosum)
outdoor party where guests cook various types of vegetables (esp. in Tōhoku); (lit.) stewed potato party
uncool; bad-looking; unattractive; unsophisticated; provincial; hick
uncool; bad-looking; unattractive; unsophisticated; provincial; hick
sweet potatoes baked in hot stones or pebbles
taro (Colocasia esculenta); cocoyam; dasheen
purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such)
sweetened sweet potato fries; fried strips of sweet potato coated with sugar
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
secondary taro corm; daughter taro corm; taro cormel; taro bud
to be jostling against each other
stamp made with a potato
secondary taro corm; daughter taro corm; taro cormel; taro bud
dried taro stem
red-colored jersey (esp. school PE uniform)
Irish Cobbler potato
minor taro root; taro cormlet; taro cormel
sweetened sweet potato fries; fried strips of sweet potato coated with sugar
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
var. of taro with long purple stalks
mother tuber of a taro; taro corm; parent taro
purple yam; water yam (Dioscorea alata); purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such); Conus pauperculus (species of cone shell)
dish of potatoes first boiled, then spun around while fried in a bowl (making them look as if covered in powder)
Chinese yam (variety of Dioscorea opposita); Japanese yam (variety of Dioscorea japonica)
sweet potato (any of a number of different cultivars with red skin)
being ignorant of the ways of the world; knowing nothing; (lit.) not being able to tell if a yam is boiled or not
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas); potato (Solanum tuberosum)
shrimp-shaped taro variety
taros flavoured with miso and grilled on skewers; parent-child incest
dried sweet potato; satsuma sweet potato steamed, sliced and dried
(bar of) sweet-potato paste
Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus); topinambur; girasol; girasole
being ignorant of the ways of the world; knowing nothing; (lit.) not being able to tell if a yam is boiled or not
hick; country bumpkin; yokel
tertiary taro corm; taro cormlet
type of taro originally from Sulawesi
shrimp-shaped taro variety
potato (Solanum tuberosum)
rough potato (Metaplexis japonica)
shrimp-shaped taro variety
Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)
giant elephant ear (species of taro, Colocasia gigantea)
jointed woodsorrel (Oxalis articulata)
taccad (any plant of family Taccaceae)
type of taro originally from Sulawesi, has large tubers with red eyes
shrimp-shaped taro variety
jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus); yam bean; Mexican turnip
lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta)