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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)

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.

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).
7. (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.

8. (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)

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.

Hypernyms

• bunch
• hand
• Appendix:English collective nouns

See also

• bananas (adj)

Anagrams

• Annaba

Asturian

Noun

banana f (plural bananes)

1. banana (fruit)

Synonyms

• plátanu

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /b??na.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ba?na.na/

Noun

banana f (plural bananes)

1. 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)

1. banana

Mutation

French

Verb

banana

1. third-person singular past historic of bananer

Galician

Noun

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana (fruit)

Synonyms

• (banana): plátano

Related terms

• bananeira

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?nana

Noun

banana

1. definite accusative plural of bani
2. inflection of banani:
   1. indefinite accusative
   2. indefinite dative singular
   3. indefinite genitive

Irish

Etymology

From Wolof banaana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???n??an???/

Noun

banana m (genitive singular banana, nominative plural bananaí)

1. 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)

1. banana (fruit)

Noun

banana m (invariable)

1. banana (color)

Adjective

banana (invariable)

1. banana

Related terms

• banano

Japanese

Romanization

banana

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From German Banane, from ultimately from Wolof banaana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?nana/

Noun

banana f

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. banana (fruit)

2. banana (plant)

   Synonym: bananeira (more common)

3. (informal) penis
4. (Brazil, informal) bras d'honneur (obscene gesture)

   Synonym: manguito (Portugal)

Noun

banana m, f (plural bananas)

1. (derogatory, slang) wimp (a weak or inconfident person)

Romanian

Noun

banana f

1. definite singular nominative/accusative of banan?

Sardinian

Etymology

From Spanish banana, from Wolof banaana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banana/

Noun

banana f (plural bananas)

1. 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 ???????)

1. 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)

1. (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

1. 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)

1. banana

Synonyms

• (jocular) ffrwchnedden

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• narna
• narner

Etymology

Phonetically respelled aphetic form of banana.

Noun

nanner (plural nanners)

1. (informal) banana