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Definitions and meaning of banana

banana

Etymology

From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese, of unknown origin, but potentially from Arabic بَنَان (banān, “fingertip”).

The racial slur derives from the notion that they are "Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, White (Westernized) on the inside".

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bə-näʹnə, IPA^(key): /bəˈnɑː.nə/
• (General American) enPR: bə-năʹnə, IPA^(key): /bəˈnæ.nə/
• Hyphenation: ba‧na‧na
• Rhymes: -ɑːnə, -ænə

Noun

banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)

1. An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
   1. (Canada, US, UK, Ireland) In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.
2. The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.
3. (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.

4. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East Asian descent, especially an ethnic Chinese from a Western country who does not speak Chinese, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to White authority.

   Synonym: Twinkie

5. (slang) The penis.
6. (sports) A banana kick.
7. (nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
8. (computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).

Hypernyms

• (fruit): fruit
• (Asian assimilated into Western culture): race traitor

Hyponyms

• (Asian assimilated into Western culture): jook-sing

Coordinate terms

• (Asian assimilated into Western culture): egg, coconut, Oreo
• (fruit): finger, hand

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

banana (not comparable)

1. Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

Hypernyms

• bunch
• hand
• Appendix:English collective nouns

See also

• bananas (adj)

References

Anagrams

• Annaba

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈnana/, [baˈna.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: ba‧na‧na

Noun

banana f (plural bananes)

1. banana (fruit)

   Synonym: plátanu

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈna.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [baˈna.na]

Noun

banana f (plural bananes)

1. banana (fruit)

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

Noun

banana m (plural bananas)

1. banana

Mutation

French

Pronunciation

Verb

banana

1. third-person singular past historic of bananer (to make a mistake)

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈnana/ [baˈnã.nɐ]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: ba‧na‧na

Noun

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana (fruit)

   Synonym: plátano

Related terms

• bananeira

Further reading

• “banana” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːnana

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): /bˠəˈn̪ˠan̪ˠə/

Noun

banana m (genitive singular banana, nominative plural bananaí)

1. banana

Declension

Derived terms

• crann bananaí (“banana-tree”)

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “banana”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈna.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: ba‧nà‧na

Noun

banana f (plural banane)

1. banana (fruit)

Noun

banana m (invariable)

1. banana (color)

Adjective

banana (invariable)

1. banana (color)

Related terms

• banano

Japanese

Romanization

banana

1. Rōmaji transcription of バナナ

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From German Banane, ultimately from Wolof banaana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈnana/

Noun

banana f inan

1. banana

Declension

References

• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “banana”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian banana, from Wolof banaana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈnaː.na/

Noun

banana m (collective, singulative banana, paucal bananiet)

1. banana (fruit)

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈnɐ̃.nɐ/
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃nɐ, -ɐnɐ
• Hyphenation: ba‧na‧na

Noun

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana (fruit)

   As bananas são ricas em potássio ― Bananas are high in potassium

2. banana (plant)

   Synonym: (more common) bananeira

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

   Synonym: (Portugal) manguito

Noun

banana m or f by sense (plural bananas)

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

   Aquele rapaz é um banana! ― That guy is a wimp!

Romanian

Noun

banana f

1. definite singular nominative/accusative of banană (banana (fruit))

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): /banǎːna/
• Hyphenation: ba‧na‧na

Noun

banána f (Cyrillic spelling бана́на)

1. banana

Declension

References

• “banana” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Wolof banaana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈnana/ [baˈna.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: 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

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): /baˈnana/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /baˈna(ː)na/
• Rhymes: -ana

Noun

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana

Synonyms

• (jocular) ffrwchnedden

Mutation

Source: wiktionary.org