आलू

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑː.luː/, [äː.luː]

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀆𑀮𑀼𑀕 (āluga), from Sanskrit आलुक (āluka, “elephant foot yam”). Doublet of आलु (ālu) and आलुक (āluk). The word began to be used in the sense "potato" after the importation of potatoes to South Asia from the Americas by Europeans, displacing cultivation of the similar elephant foot yam.

आलू • (ālū) m (Urdu spelling آلو)

1. potato
2. (archaic) elephant foot yam

• → English: aloo
• → Burmese: အာလူး (alu:)
  • → S'gaw Karen: အၣ်လူ (ʼà loo)
  • → Shan: ဢႃႇလူး (ʼàa lúu)
• → Guyanese Creole English: aloo

• कन्द (kand)
• जमीकन्द (jamīkand)

Borrowed from Classical Persian آلو (ālū).

आलू • (ālū) m (Urdu spelling آلو)

1. plum; prune

• आलू-बुख़ारा (ālū-buxārā)

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ālu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “आलू”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “आलू”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “आलू”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “आलू”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀆𑀮𑀼𑀕 (āluga), from Sanskrit आलुक (āluka).

आलू (ālū) m

1. potato

• “आलू”, in राजस्थानी सबदकोस [rājasthānī sabadkos], charans.org, 2025