banana

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See also: BANANA and banană

English[edit]

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banana fruits

Etymology[edit]

From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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”).

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Antonyms[edit]

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

Coordinate terms[edit]

  • (Asian assimilated into Western culture): coconut

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Translations[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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.

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Hypernyms[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananes)

  1. banana (fruit)

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Catalan[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananes)

  1. banana (fruit)

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French[edit]

Verb[edit]

banana

  1. third-person singular past historic of bananer

Galician[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananas)

  1. banana (fruit)

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Irish[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana m

  1. banana

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

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.

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural banane)

  1. banana (fruit)

Noun[edit]

banana m (invariable)

  1. banana (color)

Adjective[edit]

banana (invariable)

  1. banana

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Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

banana

  1. rōmaji reading of バナナ

Maltese[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f

  1. banana

Portuguese[edit]

bananas

Etymology[edit]

Uncertain. Possibly from Wolof banaana (“banana”) or Arabic بنان (banaan, “fingertip, banana”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananas)

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

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Romanian[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. the banana

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish, from Portuguese, from Wolof banaana.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /banǎːna/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧na‧na

Noun[edit]

banána f (Cyrillic spelling бана́на)

  1. banana

Declension[edit]

    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

References[edit]

  • “banana” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananas)

  1. banana (fruit)

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Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

English banana

Noun[edit]

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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