See also: BANANAs, banānas, and banānās

English

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Noun

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bananas

  1. plural of banana

Adjective

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bananas (comparative more bananas, superlative most bananas)

  1. Crazy, mad, nuts.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 377:
      I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.
    • 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding.
    • 2023 October 5, Damian Carrington, “‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat”, in The Guardian[2], UK:
      “September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project.

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French

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Verb

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bananas

  1. second-person singular past historic of bananer

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Borrowed from English banana?”

Pronunciation

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Noun

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banãnas m (plural banãnai) stress pattern 2

  1. banana (fruit)

Declension

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Probably from English.

Adjective

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bananas (indeclinable)

  1. bananas, crazy

Usage notes

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Not an officially recognised word, but it sees a lot of use.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Probably from English.

Adjective

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bananas (indeclinable?)

  1. bananas, crazy

Usage notes

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As above.

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Portuguese

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Noun

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bananas

  1. plural of banana

Spanish

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Noun

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bananas

  1. plural of banana

Welsh

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Noun

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bananas f pl

  1. plural of banana

Mutation

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Mutated forms of bananas
radical soft nasal aspirate
bananas fananas mananas unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.