banana
English edit
Etymology edit
From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese, of unknown origin, but potentially from Arabic بَنَان (banān, “fingertip”).[1]
The racial slur derives from the notion that they are "Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, White (Westernized) on the inside".
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bə-näʹnə, IPA(key): /bəˈnɑː.nə/
Audio (RP) [bəˈnɑː.nɐ] (file)
- (General American) enPR: bə-năʹnə, IPA(key): /bəˈnæ.nə/
Audio (GA) [bəˈnɛ̃ə̃.nə] (file)
- Hyphenation: ba‧na‧na
- Rhymes: -ɑːnə, -ænə
Noun edit
banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)
- An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
- (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.
- 2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 62:
- I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.
- 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.
- (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
- banana:
- (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
- (slang) The penis.
- 1986, Christopher Street, Cop Feels of Three Men's "Privates"[2], 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[3], 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[4], 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[5], 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.
- (sports) A banana kick.
- (nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
- (computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
Hypernyms edit
- (fruit): fruit
- (Asian assimilated into Western culture): race traitor
Hyponyms edit
- (Asian assimilated into Western culture): jook-sing
Coordinate terms edit
Derived terms edit
- Abyssinian banana
- apple banana
- banana bag
- banana ball
- banana-bender
- banana bender
- banana bird
- banana boa
- banana boat
- banana bond
- banana box
- banana bread
- banana bus
- banana cake
- banana chair
- banana clip
- banana connector
- banana cue
- banana-ey
- banana fly
- banana fold
- banana freckle
- banana frog
- Bananagate
- bananageddon
- banana hammock
- bananahood
- banana ketchup
- banana knife
- Bananaland
- banana leaf
- bananaless
- banana-like
- bananalike
- banana lounge
- banana melon
- banana money
- banana-nose
- banana nose
- banana note
- banana oil
- banana paper
- banana passionfruit
- banana peel
- banana pepper
- banana-phile
- bananaphile
- bananaphobia
- banana phone
- banana plug
- banana pose
- banana pudding
- bananaquit
- banana republic
- banana roll
- bananas
- banana seat
- bananas Foster
- bananas Foster
- banana shallot
- banana-shaped
- banana shot
- banana skin
- banana slice
- banana slug
- banana solution
- banana spider
- banana split
- banana-y
- banana yucca
- bananery
- bananivorous
- bananoid
- bandango
- banilla
- banoffee
- banoffee pie
- bush banana
- Cavendish banana
- coconana
- don't buy green bananas
- false banana
- Flying Banana
- have one foot on a banana peel
- if you pay bananas, you get monkeys
- make like a banana and split
- nonbanana
- one-banana problem
- pink banana
- prairie banana
- red banana
- scarlet banana
- second banana
- snow banana
- strawbana
- textile banana
- top banana
- tough bananas
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Adjective edit
banana (not comparable)
- Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
- 2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, →ISBN, page 155:
- 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, →ISBN, page 53:
- 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, →ISBN, page 247:
- [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.
Hypernyms edit
See also edit
- bananas (adj)
References edit
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Noun edit
banana f (plural bananes)
- banana (fruit)
Synonyms edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana f (plural bananes)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “banana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cornish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana m (plural bananas)
Mutation edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
banana
- third-person singular past historic of bananer (to make a mistake)
Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana (fruit)
- Synonym: plátano
- Os chimpancés utilizan bastóns para coller unha banana.
- Chimpanzees use sticks to pick up a banana.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “banana” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aːnana
Noun edit
banana
- definite accusative plural of bani
- inflection of banani:
Irish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana m (genitive singular banana, nominative plural bananaí)
Declension edit
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms edit
- crann bananaí (“banana-tree”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
banana | bhanana | mbanana |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “banana”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana f (plural banane)
- banana (fruit)
Noun edit
banana m (invariable)
- banana (color)
Adjective edit
banana (invariable)
- banana (color)
Related terms edit
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
banana
Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From German Banane, ultimately from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana f inan
Declension edit
References edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian banana, from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana m (collective, singulative banana, paucal bananiet)
- banana (fruit)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Possibly from Wolof banaana (“banana”) or Arabic بَنَان (banān, “fingertip, banana”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana (fruit)
- As bananas são ricas em potássio ― Bananas are high in potassium
- banana (plant)
- Synonym: (more common) bananeira
- (informal) penis
- (Brazil, informal) bras d'honneur (obscene gesture)
- Synonym: (Portugal) manguito
Noun edit
banana m or f by sense (plural bananas)
- (derogatory, slang) wimp (a weak or unconfident person)
- Aquele rapaz é um banana! ― That guy is a wimp!
Romanian edit
Noun edit
banana f
- definite singular nominative/accusative of banană (banana (fruit))
Sardinian edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish banana, from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana f (plural bananas)
- banana (fruit)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish, from Portuguese, from Wolof banaana.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banána f (Cyrillic spelling бана́на)
Declension edit
References edit
- “banana” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
banana f (plural bananas)
Usage notes edit
- banana may also be used in Spain, to differentiate from plátano (“plantain”); otherwise, plátano refers to either.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “banana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tok Pisin edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
banana
- banana
- 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics[6] (overall work in English), →ISBN, page 433:
- Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From English banana, from Wolof banaana, via Portuguese and/or Spanish.
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /baˈnana/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /baˈna(ː)na/
- Rhymes: -ana
Noun edit
banana f (plural bananas)
Synonyms edit
- (jocular) ffrwchnedden
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
banana | fanana | manana | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |