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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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dolphin
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?lf?n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?lf?n/
Etymology 1
From Middle English dolfin, from Old French daulphin, dalphin, daufin, from Latin delph?nus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (delphís), from ?????? (delphús, “womb”). Compare Swedish delfin. Doublet of dauphin. Displaced native mereswine (“dolphin or porpoise”), from Old English meresw?n (literally “sea pig”).
Noun
dolphin (plural dolphins)
- A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of order Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.
- Synonyms: mereswine, sea goose, sea pig
- A fish, the mahi-mahi or dorado, Coryphaena hippurus, with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.
- (heraldry) A depiction of a fish, with a broad indented fin, usually embowed.
- The dauphin, eldest son of the kings of France.
- (historical) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped through the deck and the hull of an enemy's vessel to sink it.
- (nautical) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
- (nautical) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
- A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
- A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)
- (military, obsolete) One of the handles above the trunnions by which a gun was lifted.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- killer whale
- mereswine
- pod
- porpoise
- sea lion
- seal
- whale
Etymology 2
Ultimately from 3rd Duke of Alba (duc-d'Albe in French), who was the first to build this type of structure in the Spanish Netherlands in the 16th century. Possibly from Dutch dukdalf, or the plural dukdalven, through elision of the initial duk-.
Noun
dolphin (plural dolphins)
- (nautical) A man-made semi submerged maritime structure, usually installed to provide a fixed structure for temporary mooring, to prevent ships from drifting to shallow water or to serve as base for navigational aids.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- pinhold
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