Japanese

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Alternative spellings
バナヽ
ばなな
ばなゝ
甘蕉 (literary, obsolete)

Etymology

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Borrowed from English banana.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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バナナ or バナヽ or ばなな (banana (counter )

  1. banana

References

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  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN