banana

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese.

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[edit] Noun

banana (plural bananas)

  1. An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.
  2. The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
  3. (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
    banana colour:    
  4. (mildly pejorative, slang) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the “yellow” outside and “white” inside). Compare coconut (“assimilated Hispanic or Black”).

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  • (Asian assimilated into Western culture): egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)

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  • (Asian assimilated into Western culture): coconut

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fruit
plant
colour
pejorative: person of Asian descent

[edit] References

  • Terry Woo, Banana Boys

[edit] Adjective

banana (not comparable)

  1. Flavoured with bananas.
  2. Of the colour of bananas.

[edit] Translations

flavoured with bananas
of the colour of bananas

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[edit] Noun

banana f. (plural bananes)

  1. banana (fruit)

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banana

  1. third-person singular past historic of bananer

[edit] Galician

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banana f. (plural bananas)

  1. banana (fruit)

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[edit] Irish

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banana m.

  1. banana

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Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative banana bananaí
Vocative a bhanana a bhananaí
Genitive banana bananaí
Dative banana bananaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an banana na bananaí
Genitive an bhanana na mbananaí
Dative leis an mbanana

don bhanana

 leis na bananaí

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
banana bhanana mbanana
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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[edit] Noun

banana f. (plural banane)

  1. banana (fruit)

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banana m. inv.

  1. banana (color)

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banana inv.

  1. banana

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[edit] Pronunciation

The stress is on the first syllable: ⌈ba⌉nana

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banana (hiragana ばなな)

  1. バナナ: banana

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banana f.

  1. banana

[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Noun

banana f. (plural bananas)

  1. banana (fruit)
  2. banana (plant)

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banana f. (singular, nominative/accusative, definite form of banană)

  1. the banana

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banána m. (Cyrillic spelling бана́на)

  1. banana

[edit] Declension

    declension of banana
singular plural
nominative banana banane
genitive banane banana
dative banani bananama
accusative bananu banane
vocative banano banane
locative banani bananama
instrumental bananom bananama

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Noun

banana f. (plural bananas)

  1. banana (fruit)

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[edit] Noun

banana

  1. banana

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[edit] Noun

banana

  1. banana
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