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banana
English
Etymology
From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?-nä?n?, IPA(key): /b??n??n?/
- (General American) enPR: b?-n??n?, IPA(key): /b??næn?/
- Rhymes: -??n?, -æn?
- Hyphenation: ba?na?na
Noun
banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)
- An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
- (Canada, US, Britain, Ireland) Especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar.
- 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.
- (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
- (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"”).
- (nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
- (colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
- (slang) The penis.
- 1986 Cop Feels of Three Men's "Privates" Christopher Street - Volume 10
- The fact that the cop bought O'Brien a beer after feeling of his banana suggests that it must have been a promising one
- 2012 Sarah Miynowski Fishbowl page 36
- His you-know-what turned soft .. his eight o'clock class was the last thing on his mind five minutes ago, when his banana wasn't overripe.
- 2014 Anthony Bunko Lord Forgive Me page 71
- Most of the gang were trying their best to shag the girls. One boy was sitting in a tree playing with himself and another was asking a table of teenagers if they would like to see his banana.
- 2017 Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture page 234
- He adds that after eating his banana (sucking his penis), he wants anal sex, but she asks him to lick her pussy. Then he tells her no because it is disgusting.
- 1986 Cop Feels of Three Men's "Privates" Christopher Street - Volume 10
- (sports) A banana kick.
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
- (fruit): finger, hand
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
banana (not comparable)
- 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.
- 2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, page 155, ?ISBN.
Hypernyms
- bunch
- hand
- Appendix:English collective nouns
See also
- bananas (adj)
Anagrams
- Annaba
Asturian
Noun
banana f (plural bananes)
- banana (fruit)
Synonyms
- plátanu
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /b??na.n?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ba?na.na/
Noun
banana f (plural bananes)
- banana (fruit)
Synonyms
- plàtan
Derived terms
- bananer
Further reading
- “banana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cornish
Etymology
From English banana
Pronunciation
- (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key): [ba?na?na]
- (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [b??næ?n?]
Noun
banana m (plural bananas)
- banana
Mutation
French
Verb
banana
- third-person singular past historic of bananer
Galician
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana (fruit)
Synonyms
- (banana): plátano
Related terms
- bananeira
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?nana
Noun
banana
- definite accusative plural of bani
- inflection of banani:
- indefinite accusative
- indefinite dative singular
- indefinite genitive
Irish
Etymology
From Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???n??an???/
Noun
banana m (genitive singular banana, nominative plural bananaí)
- banana
Declension
Derived terms
- crann bananaí (“banana-tree”)
Mutation
Further reading
- "banana" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Italian
Pronunciation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?na.na/
Noun
banana f (plural banane)
- banana (fruit)
Noun
banana m (invariable)
- banana (color)
Adjective
banana (invariable)
- banana
Related terms
- banano
Japanese
Romanization
banana
- R?maji transcription of ???
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From German Banane, from ultimately from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?nana/
Noun
banana f
- banana
Declension
References
- banana in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
- Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Maltese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
banana f (plural bananiet)
- banana (fruit)
Portuguese
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from Wolof banaana (“banana”) or Arabic ??????? (ban?n, “fingertip, banana”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /b??n?.n?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ba?n?.n?/, /b??n?.n?/
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana (fruit)
- banana (plant)
- Synonym: bananeira (more common)
- (informal) penis
- (Brazil, informal) bras d'honneur (obscene gesture)
- Synonym: manguito (Portugal)
Noun
banana m, f (plural bananas)
- (derogatory, slang) wimp (a weak or inconfident person)
Romanian
Noun
banana f
- definite singular nominative/accusative of banan?
Sardinian
Etymology
From Spanish banana, from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /banana/
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana (fruit)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Spanish, from Portuguese, from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ban??na/
- Hyphenation: ba?na?na
Noun
banána f (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- banana
Declension
References
- “banana” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Spanish
Etymology
From Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?nana/, [ba?na.na]
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay) banana (fruit)
- Synonyms: plátano, guineo, cambur, banano
Usage notes
- banana may also be used in Spain, to differentiate from plátano (“plantain”); otherwise, plátano refers to either.
Derived terms
- banano, bananero
Further reading
- “banana” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English banana.
Noun
banana
- banana
Welsh
Etymology
From English banana, from Wolof banaana, via Portuguese and/or Spanish.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ba?nana/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ba?na?na/, /ba?nana/
Noun
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana
Synonyms
- (jocular) ffrwchnedden
Mutation
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abaka
English
Noun
abaka (plural abakas)
- Alternative spelling of abaca
Translations
Anagrams
- Akaba, Kaaba
Cebuano
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (?abaq, “abaca”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a?ba?ka
Noun
abaka
- Cebu hemp (Musa textilis); a species of banana tree native to the Philippines
- the fiber obtained from this plant
References
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, ?ISBN, page 131
Dibabawon Manobo
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (?abaq, “abaca”).
Noun
abaka
- Manila hemp; abaca
References
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, ?ISBN, page 131
Hiligaynon
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (?abaq, “abaca”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ba?ka/
Noun
abaká
- Manila hemp, abaca
References
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, ?ISBN, page 131
Ibatan
Etymology
Cognates with Yami avaka.
Noun
abaka
- Manila hemp; abaca
Ilocano
Noun
abaka
- Manila hemp; abaca
Indonesian
Etymology
Cognate with Malay abaka
Noun
abaka (first-person possessive abakaku, second-person possessive abakamu, third-person possessive abakanya)
- abaca plant
References
- “abaka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Kapampangan
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (?abaq, “abaca”).
Noun
abaka
- abaca
References
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, ?ISBN, page 131
Latvian
Noun
abaka m
- genitive singular form of abaks
Malay
Alternative forms
- ?????
Etymology
From Tagalog abaka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [abak?]
Noun
abaka (Jawi spelling ????, plural abaka-abaka)
- abaca (plant)
Synonyms
- pisang benang / ???? ????
- pisang manila / ???? ???????
- pisang tali / ???? ?????
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?ba.ka/
Noun
abaka f
- Manila hemp
Declension
Synonyms
- manila f
Further reading
- abaka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Tagalog
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (?abaq, “abaca”), Muslim marine merchants imposing their term on their suppliers so that native terms died out in the Philippines.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ba.?ka/
Noun
abaká
- Manila hemp; abaca
Descendants
- ? Galician: abacá
- ? Malay: abaka
- ? Portuguese: abacá
- ? Spanish: abacá
- ? English: abaca
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: abaca
- ? English: abaca
References
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, ?ISBN, page 131
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