kumara

Borrowed from Maori kūmara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːməɹə/
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˈkʰʉːm(ə)ɹʷɐ], (prescribed) IPA^(key): [ˈkʰʉːmɐɾɐ]

kumara (plural kumaras or kumara)

1. (New Zealand) A sweet potato.
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 98:

     In 1350 five canoes reached New Zealand manned by Maori voyagers carrying the dog on purpose and the rat by mistake. They introduced the gourd, taro and kumara from the Polynesian Islands to the New Zealanders.

• suck the kumara

• karamu

kumara

1. allative singular of kuma

From Proto-Finnic *kumara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumɑrɑ/, [ˈkumɑ̝rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -umɑrɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ku‧ma‧ra

kumara (comparative kumarampi, superlative kumarin)

1. hunch (bent, bowed posture)

   olla kumarassa ― to hunch

• “kumara”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumeris. Compare Serbo-Croatian kukumar.

kumara f

1. Any member of the Cucumis genus of plants, including cucumber.

• “kumara”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024