banana

See also BANANA, and banană

English

Wikipedia

banana fruits

Etymology

From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /bəˈnɑːnə/, X-SAMPA: /b@"nA:n@/
• (US) enPR: bə-nă'nə, IPA: /bəˈnænə/, X-SAMPA: /b@"n{n@/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Noun

banana (countable and uncountable; 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.

   Pantone banana colour:

4. (mildly pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) 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”).

Synonyms

• (Asian assimilated into Western culture): jook-sing, Twinkie

Antonyms

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

Coordinate terms

• (Asian assimilated into Western culture): coconut

Derived terms

banana ball banana bender banana boat banana bond banana hammock Bananaland banana shot banana paper banana peel banana pepper banana plug

bananaquit banana republic bananas bananas Foster bananery banana skin banana split banoffee false banana pink banana scarlet banana second banana snow banana top banana

Translations

fruit

• Abau: yoh
• Afrikaans: piesang (af)
• Albanian: banane (sq)
• Arabic: موزة (ar) (máwza) f, موز (ar) (mawz) m (collective)

  Egyptian Arabic: موزة (muuza) f, موز (muuz) m pl

• Armenian: բանան (hy) (banan), ադամաթուզ (hy) (adamat'uz)
• Azeri: banan (az)
• Balinese: biu
• Basque: platano, albo
• Belarusian: банан (be) (banán) m
• Bengali: কলা (bn) (kôla)
• Bulgarian: банан (bg) (banán) m
• Burmese: ငှက်ပျောသီး (my) (hngetpyaw:thi:)
• Catalan: banana (ca) f, plàtan (ca) m
• Chamicuro: masipata
• Chechen: банан
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香蕉 (cmn) (xiāngjiāo)

  Min Nan: 芎蕉 (nan) (keng-chio)

• Czech: banán (cs) m, (corresponding to English attributive use:) banánový (cs)
• Danish: banan (da)
• Dutch: banaan (nl) f
• Esperanto: banano (eo)
• Estonian: banaan (et)
• Faroese: banan (fo) f
• Finnish: banaani (fi)
• French: banane (fr) f
• Friulian: banane
• Georgian: ბანანი (ka) (banani)
• German: Banane (de) f
• Greek: μπανάνα (el) (banána) f
• Greenlandic: banani (kl)
• Hausa: agade
• Hebrew: בננה (he) (ba'nana) f
• Hindi: केला (hi) (kelā) m
• Hungarian: banán (hu)
• Icelandic: banani (is) m, (very uncommon) bjúgaldin (is) n
• Ido: banano
• Indonesian: pisang (id)
• Italian: banana (it) f
• Japanese: バナナ (ja) (bánana)
• Javanese: gedang (jv)
• Jèrriais: banane f
• Kazakh: банан (kk) (banan)
• Khmer: ចេក (km) (cheek, cheech)
• Korean: 바나나 (ko) (banana)
• Kuna: madun
• Kurdish: moz (ku)

  Sorani: مۆز

• Kyrgyz: банан (ky) (banan)
• Lao: ໝາກກ້ວຍ (lo) (mȁːk kȗaːy)
• Latvian: banāns (lv) m
• Lithuanian: bananas (lt) m

• Lojban: badna
• Luxembourgish: Banann (lb) f
• Macedonian: банана (mk) (banána) f
• Malay: pisang (ms)
• Malayalam: വാഴപ്പഴം (ml)
• Maltese: banana (mt)
• Maori: panana (mi)
• Marathi: केळ (mr) (keLa)
• Mongolian: гадил (mn) (gadil)
• Navajo: hashkʼaan
• Norwegian: banan (no) m
• Persian: موز (fa) (mouz)
• Polish: banan (pl) m, (corresponding to English attributive use:) bananowy
• Portuguese: banana (pt) f
• Rapa Nui: maika
• Rohingya: kelā
• Romanian: banană (ro) f
• Russian: банан (ru) (banán) m, (corresponding to English attributive use:) банановый (ru) (banánovyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бана́на (sh) f

  Roman: banána (sh) f

• Sinhalese: කෙසෙල් (si) (kesel)
• Slovak: banán (sk) m, (corresponding to English attributive use:) banánový
• Slovene: banana (sl) f
• Sotho: banana (st)
• Spanish: banana (es) f (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay), banano (es) m (Central America, Colombia, Ecuador), cambur m (Colombian Llanos, Venezuela), guineo m (Colombian Atlantic Coast, Dominican Republic, Eastern Bolivia, Eastern Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Northern Honduras), mínimo m (Central Honduras), plátano m (Spain, Chile, Mexico, Peru), plátano fruta m (Cuban standard usage)
• Swahili: ndizi (nc 9/10), ndizi (sw)
• Swedish: banan (sv)
• Tagalog: saging (tl)
• Tajik: мавз (tg) (mavz), банан (tg) (banan)
• Tamil: வாழைபலம் (vāẕaipalam)
• Tatar: банан (tt) (banan)
• Telugu: అరటిపండు (te)
• Tetum: hudi, hudi-fuan
• Thai: กล้วย (th) (glûay)
• Tok Pisin: banana (tpi)
• Turkish: muz (tr)
• Turkmen: banan (tk)
• Ukrainian: банан (uk) (banán) m
• Urdu: کیلا (ur) (kelā) m
• Uyghur: بانان (ug) (banan)
• Vietnamese: chuối (vi), trái chuối (vi), quả chuối (vi)
• Welsh: banana (cy) m, (jocular) ffrwchnedd (cy) m
• West Frisian: banaan
• Wolof: banaana

plant

• Albanian: banane (sq)
• Bulgarian: бананово дърво (bg) (bananovo dǎrvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香蕉樹 (cmn), 香蕉树 (cmn) (xiāngjiāoshù)

• Czech: banánovník (cs) m
• Dutch: bananenplant m
• Finnish: banaani (fi), banaanikasvi (fi)
• French: bananier (fr) m
• German: Bananenstaude f
• Greek: μπανανιά (el) (bananiá) f
• Italian: banano (it) m
• Macedonian: банана (mk) (banána) f
• Malay: pokok pisang (ms)
• Maltese: banana (mt)
• Norwegian: bananplante (no) m and f

• Polish: bananowiec n
• Portuguese: bananeira (pt) f
• Russian: банан (ru) (banán) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бана́на (sh) f

  Roman: banána (sh) f

• Slovak: banánovník (sk)
• Slovene: bananovec (sl) m
• Spanish: bananero (es) m
• Swahili: ndizi (sw)
• Tagalog: puno ng saging
• Tatar: банан (tt) (banan)
• Telugu: అరటిచెట్టు (te)
• Tetum: hudi-hun
• Vietnamese: (cây) chuối

colour

• Albanian: banane (sq)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香蕉顏色, 香蕉颜色 (xiāngjiāo yánsè)

• Dutch: bananengeel n

• Finnish: banaaninkeltainen (fi)
• Malay: pisang (ms)
• Swahili: ndizi (sw)
• Vietnamese: màu chuối

pejorative: person of Asian descent

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香蕉 (cmn) (xiāngjiāo)

• Finnish: vinosilmä (fi)

References

• Terry Woo, Banana Boys

Adjective

banana (not comparable)

1. Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
   • 2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, page 155, ISBN 0738847917.

     Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.

   • 2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, page 53, ISBN 1403371490.

     He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.

   • 2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, page 247, ISBN 0977668800.

     [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.

See also

abaca coconut dining leaf matoke oreo

plantain sinamay waragi Appendix:Colors

Hypernyms

• bunch
• hand
• Appendix:English collective nouns

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Catalan

Noun

banana f (plural bananes)

1. banana (fruit)

Synonyms

• plàtan m

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French

Verb

banana

1. third-person singular past historic of bananer

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Galician

Noun

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana (fruit)

Synonyms

• (banana): plátano

Related terms

• bananeira

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Irish

Noun

banana m

1. banana

Declension

Declension of banana

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

Mutation

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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Italian

Noun

banana f (plural banane)

1. banana (fruit)

Noun

banana m (invariable)

1. banana (color)

Adjective

banana (invariable)

1. banana

Related terms

• banano

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Japanese

Romanization

banana

1. See バナナ

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Maltese

Noun

banana f

1. banana

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Portuguese

bananas

Noun

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana (fruit)
2. banana (plant)
3. (informal) penis

Synonyms

• (plant): bananeira

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Romanian

Noun

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

1. the banana

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

banána m (Cyrillic spelling бана́на)

1. banana

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

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Spanish

Noun

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana (fruit)

Synonyms

• plátano m
• guineo m

Related terms

• banano m

See also

• cambur m

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Tatar

Noun

banana

1. banana

References

• banana plantatsiäse...15 Üktäber 2006

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

English banana

Noun

banana

1. banana
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics^[1], ISBN 0-8248-1672-2, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

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