The story
- Sanskrit · derived fromआलु
- Hindustani · borrowed from
- English todayaloo
From Hindustani آلو (ālo) / आलू (ālū), ultimately from Sanskrit आलु (ālu), said to mean the edible root of a variety of Amorphophallus paeoniifolius.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.