English
Etymology
Coined by American author O. Henry in 1904 in his book of short stories Cabbages and Kings , set in the fictional "Anchuria", which was based on his 1896-97 stay in Honduras.
Pronunciation
Noun
banana republic plural banana republics
( politics , idiomatic , derogatory ) country , especially one in Central America or the West Indies , that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt , dictatorial government .
Hypernym: kleptocracy
Translations
country
Afrikaans: piesangrepubliek (af)
Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة الْمَوْزِ f ( jumhūriyyat al-mawzi )
Armenian: ադամաթզենու հանրապետություն ( adamatʻzenu hanrapetutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: banan respublikası
Basque: banana errepublika
Breton: republik ar bananez f
Bulgarian: бананова република f ( bananova republika )
Catalan: república bananera f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 香蕉共和國 ／ 香蕉共和国 ( xiāngjiāo gònghéguó ) , 香蕉共和国 ( xiāngjiāo gònghéguó )
Czech: banánová republika f
Danish: bananrepublik c bananstat c
Dutch: bananenrepubliek (nl) m
Esperanto: bananrespubliko
Estonian: banaanivabariik (et)
Finnish: banaanivaltio (fi) , banaanitasavalta (fi)
French: république bananière (fr) f
Galician: república bananeira (gl) f
Georgian: ბანანის რესპუბლიკა ( bananis resṗubliḳa )
German: Bananenrepublik (de) f
Greek: μπανανία (el) f ( bananía )
Hebrew: רֶפּוּבְּלִיקַת בָּנָנוֹת (he) f ( repúblikat banánot )
Hungarian: banánköztársaság (hu)
Icelandic: bananalýðveldi n
Indonesian: republik pisang
Italian: repubblica delle banane f
Japanese: バナナ共和国 ( バナナきょうわこく, banana kyōwakoku )
Korean: 바나나 공화국 ( banana gonghwaguk )
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Latvian: banānu republika f
Lithuanian: bananinė respublika f
Macedonian: банана република f ( banana republika ) , банана-држава ( banana-država )
Malagasy: fanjakan' i Baroa (mg) , fanjakana baroa (mg)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bananrepublikk m
Nynorsk: bananrepublikk m
Persian: جمهوری موزی ( jomhuri muzi )
Polish: republika bananowa (pl) f
Portuguese: república de bananas f república de banana f república bananeira f
Romanian: republică bananieră f
Russian: бана́новая респу́блика (ru) f ( banánovaja respúblika )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бана́на репу̀блика f бана́на-др̀жава f
Roman: banána repùblika f banána-dr̀žava f
Slovak: banánová republika f
Slovene: bananska republika f banana republika f
Spanish: república bananera f
Swedish: bananrepublik (sv) c
Tatar: банан республикасы ( banan respublikası )
Thai: สาธารณรัฐกล้วย
Turkish: muz cumhuriyeti
Ukrainian: бананова республіка f ( bananova respublika )
Urdu: جمہوریہ کیلا
Vietnamese: cộng hòa chuối
Welsh: gweriniaeth fanana f
West Frisian: bananerepublyk c
