banana republic

English

Etymology

Coined by American author O. Henry in his 1904 book of short stories, "Cabbages and Kings", set in the fictional "Anchuria", which was based on his 1896-97 stay in Honduras.

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Noun

banana republic (plural banana republics)

(politics, idiomatic, derogatory) A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.
Hypernym: kleptocracy

Translations

country

Afrikaans: piesangrepubliek (af)
Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة الْمَوْزِ‎ f (jumhūriyyat al-mawzi)
Armenian: ադամաթզենու հանրապետություն (adamatʿzenu hanrapetutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: banan respublikası
Basque: banana errepublika
Breton: republik ar bananez f
Bulgarian: бананова република f (bananova republika)
Catalan: república bananera f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 香蕉共和國, 香蕉共和国 (xiāngjiāo gònghéguó)
Czech: banánová republika f
Danish: bananrepublik c, bananstat c
Dutch: bananenrepubliek (nl) m
Esperanto: bananrespubliko
Estonian: banaanivabariik (et)
Finnish: banaanivaltio (fi), banaanitasavalta (fi)
French: république bananière (fr) f
Galician: república bananeira (gl) f
Georgian: ბანანის რესპუბლიკა (bananis resṗubliḳa)
German: Bananenrepublik (de) f
Greek: μπανανία (el) f (bananía)
Hebrew: רֶפּוּבְּלִיקַת בָּנָנוֹת‎ (he) f (repúblikat banánot)
Hungarian: banánköztársaság (hu)
Icelandic: bananalýðveldi n
Indonesian: republik pisang
Italian: repubblica delle banane f
Japanese: バナナ共和国 (バナナきょうわこく, banana kyōwakoku)
Korean: 바나나 공화국 (banana gonghwaguk)

Kurdish: komara mûzan (ku), کۆمارا مووزان‎ (ku) (komara mûzan)
Latvian: banānu republika f
Lithuanian: bananinė respublika f
Macedonian: банана република f (banana republika), банана-држава (banana-država)
Malagasy: fanjakan' i Baroa (mg), fanjakana baroa (mg)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bananrepublikk m

Nynorsk: bananrepublikk m
Persian: جمهوری موزی‎ (jomhuri muzi)
Polish: republika bananowa (pl) f
Portuguese: república de bananas f, república de banana f, república bananeira f
Romanian: republică bananieră f
Russian: бана́новая респу́блика (ru) f (banánovaja respúblika)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бана́на репу̀блика f, бана́на-др̀жава f

Roman: banána repùblika f, banána-dr̀žava f
Slovak: banánová republika f
Slovene: bananska republika f, banana republika f
Spanish: república bananera f
Swedish: bananrepublik (sv) c
Tatar: банан республикасы (banan respublikası)
Thai: สาธารณรัฐกล้วย
Turkish: muz cumhuriyeti
Ukrainian: бананова республіка f (bananova respublika)
Urdu: جمہوریہ کیلا‎
Vietnamese: cộng hòa chuối
Welsh: gweriniaeth fanana f
West Frisian: bananerepublyk c

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