banana

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See also: BANANA, banána, banāna, banānā, banană, and Appendix:Variations of "banana"

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese.

Four different types of bananas. The larger yellow bananas on the far right are commercially dominant Cavendish bananas.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)

  1. An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
    1. (Canada, US, Britain, Ireland) Especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar.
  2. The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, 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 derogatory, 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”) or Oreo (“Black person who is "black outside" and "white inside"”).
  5. (nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
  6. (colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).

Synonyms[edit]

Antonyms[edit]

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

Coordinate terms[edit]

  • (Asian assimilated into Western culture): coconut

Derived terms[edit]

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.
      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.
      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.
      [...]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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Anagrams[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananes)

  1. banana (fruit)

Synonyms[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananes)

  1. banana (fruit)

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Cornish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key): [baˈnaːna]
  • (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [bəˈnæːnɐ]

Noun[edit]

banana m (plural bananas)

  1. banana

Mutation[edit]

  Mutation of banana  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
banana vanana unchanged panana fanana vanana

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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Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana

  1. definite accusative plural of bani

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Wolof banaana.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bˠəˈn̪ˠan̪ˠə/

Noun[edit]

banana m (genitive singular banana, nominative plural bananaí)

  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

Derived terms[edit]

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.

Further reading[edit]

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

Related terms[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

banana

  1. Rōmaji transcription of バナナ

Lower Sorbian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Wolof banaana.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f

  1. banana

Declension[edit]

Declension of banana
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative banana bananje banany
Genitive banany bananowu bananow
Dative bananje bananoma bananam
Accusative bananu bananje banany
Instrumental bananu bananoma bananami
Locative bananje bananoma bananach

References[edit]

  • banana in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Maltese[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f

  1. banana

Portuguese[edit]

bananas

Etymology[edit]

Uncertain. Possibly from Wolof banaana (“banana”) or Arabic بَنَان‎ (banān, “fingertip, banana”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananas)

  1. banana (fruit)
    Bananas são ricas em potássio ― Bananas are high in potassium
  2. banana (plant)
    Synonym: bananeira (more common)
  3. (informal) penis
  4. (Brazil, informal) bras d'honneur (obscene gesture)
    Synonym: manguito (Portugal)

Noun[edit]

banana m, f (plural bananas)

  1. (derogatory, slang) wimp (a weak or inconfident person)
    Aquele rapaz é um banana! ― That guy is a wimp!

Romanian[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f

  1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of banană.

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]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananas)

  1. (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay) banana (fruit)
    Synonyms: plátano, guineo, cambur, banano

Usage notes[edit]

  • banana may also be used in Spain, to differentiate from plátano (“plantain”); otherwise, plátano refers to either.

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English banana.

Noun[edit]

banana

  1. banana
    • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎[1] (in English; quote in Tok Pisin), →ISBN, page 433:
      Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English banana, from Wolof banaana, via Portuguese and/or Spanish.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

banana f (plural bananas)

  1. banana

Synonyms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
banana fanana manana unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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