banana

From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese.

Four different types of bananas. The larger yellow bananas on the far right are commercially dominant Cavendish bananas.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bə-näʹnə, IPA^(key): /bəˈnɑːnə/
• (General American) enPR: bə-năʹnə, IPA^(key): /bəˈnænə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə, -ænə
• Hyphenation: ba‧na‧na

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.

   banana colour:  

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. (informal) a 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

   • 2010 Brenda Wojick Can You Squeeze My Banana? page 253

     So what would you say to a little old man who asks you to squeeze his banana? Would you take him up on his offer?

   • 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.

   • 2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13

     I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.

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

• (Asian assimilated into Western culture): egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)

• (Asian assimilated into Western culture): coconut

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.

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• Appendix:English collective nouns

• bananas (adj)

• Annaba

banana f (plural bananes)

1. banana (fruit)

• plátanu

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

banana f (plural bananes)

1. banana (fruit)

• plàtan

• bananer

• “banana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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

banana m (plural bananas)

1. banana

banana

1. third-person singular past historic of bananer

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana (fruit)

• (banana): plátano

• bananeira

• Rhymes: -aːnana

banana

1. definite accusative plural of bani

From Wolof banaana.

• IPA^(key): /bˠəˈn̪ˠan̪ˠə/

banana m (genitive singular banana, nominative plural bananaí)

1. banana

• crann bananaí (“banana-tree”)

• "banana" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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banana f (plural banane)

1. banana (fruit)

banana m (invariable)

1. banana (color)

banana (invariable)

1. banana

• banano

banana

1. Rōmaji transcription of バナナ

From Wolof banaana.

• IPA^(key): /baˈnana/

banana f

1. banana

• banana in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

banana f

1. banana

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈnɐnɐ/

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana (fruit)

   Bananas são ricas em potássio ― Bananas are high in potassium

2. banana (plant)

   Synonym: bananeira (more common)

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

   Synonym: manguito (Portugal)

banana m, f (plural bananas)

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

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

banana f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative of banană

From Spanish, from Portuguese, from Wolof banaana.

• IPA^(key): /banǎːna/
• Hyphenation: ba‧na‧na

banána f (Cyrillic spelling бана́на)

1. banana

• “banana” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• IPA^(key): /baˈnana/

banana f (plural bananas)

1. (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay) banana (fruit)

   Synonyms: plátano, guineo, cambur, banano

• banana may also be used in Spain, to differentiate from plátano (“plantain”); otherwise, plátano refers to either.

• banano, bananero

• “banana” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

From English banana.

banana

1. banana
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎ (in English), →ISBN, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

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From English banana, from Wolof banaana, via Portuguese and/or Spanish.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /baˈnana/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /baˈnaːna/, /baˈnana/

banana f (plural bananas)

1. banana

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