banana

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bəˈnɑː.nə/
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• General-American: /bəˈnæ.nə/
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• South-Asia: /bəˈna.na/
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• South-Asia: [bɐ.näː.näˑ]
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• rhymes with -ɑːnə
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• rhymes with -ænə
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• /bə.næ.nə/
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• /bə.nɑː.nə/ trap–bath split
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• Received-Pronunciation: bə-näʹnə
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• Received-Pronunciation: /bəˈnɑːnə/
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• General-American: bə-năʹnə
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• General-American: /bəˈnænə/
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• homophone: banana
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• CMU ARPABET: B AH0 N AE1 N AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Portuguese banana or Spanish banana, derived from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Specific derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana), possibly from Arabic بَنَان (banān, “fingertip, banana”). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese banana. The racial slur derives from the notion that they are “Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, but White (Westernized) on the inside”.

Contrived acronym of build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone (or anything), as a play on "bananas" meaning "crazy, mad"

417 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abau: yoh — fruit
• Abkhaz: абанан (abanan) — fruit
• Afrikaans: piesang — fruit
• Ahom: 𑜀𑜤𑜐𑜫 (kuñ) — fruit
• Akan: akwaadu — fruit
• Albanian: banane — fruit
• Amharic: ሙዝ (muz) — fruit
• Amis: pawli — fruit
• Angal Enen: ai — fruit
• Arabic: مَوْزَة (mawza) — fruit
• Arabic: مَوْز (mawz) — fruit
• Arabic: موزة (mōza) — fruit
• Arabic: موز (mōz) — fruit
• Arabic: موزة (mōza) — fruit
• Arabic: موز (mōz) — fruit
• Arabic: بنان (banān) — fruit
• Arabic: بنانة (banāna) — fruit
• Argobba: ሙዝ (muz) — fruit
• Armenian: բանան (banan) — fruit
• Armenian: ադամաթուզ (adamatʻuz) — fruit
• Asi: batag — fruit
• Assamese: কল (kol) — fruit
• Asturian: plátanu — fruit
• Asturian: bananu — fruit
• Asturian: banana — fruit
• Atayal: buqoh — fruit
• Atayal: guquh — fruit
• Aymara: puquta — fruit
• Azerbaijani: banan — fruit
• Balinese: biu — fruit
• Basay: puti — fruit
• Basque: platano — fruit
• Basque: albo — fruit
• Belarusian: бана́н (banán) — fruit
• Bengali: কলা (kola) — fruit
• Bengali: রম্ভা (rombha) — fruit
• Bengali: কদল (kodol) — fruit
• Bhojpuri: केला (kēlā) — fruit
• Buhi'non Bikol: batag — fruit
• Central Bikol: batag — fruit
• East Miraya Bikol: batag — fruit
• Libon Bikol: batag — fruit
• Northern Catanduanes Bikol: saging — fruit
• Rinconada Bikol: batag — fruit
• Southern Catanduanes Bikol: batag — fruit
• West Miraya Bikol: batag — fruit
• Binukid: saging — fruit
• Bolinao: batag — fruit
• Bouyei: joicdiangz — fruit
• Bulgarian: бана́н (banán) — fruit
• Bunun: bunbun — fruit
• Burmese: ငှက်ပျောသီး (hngakpyau:si:) — fruit
• Carpathian Rusyn: бана́н (banán) — fruit
• Catalan: banana — fruit
• Catalan: plàtan — fruit
• Cebuano: saging — fruit
• Chakma: 𑄇𑄧𑄣 (kalā) — fruit
• Chamicuro: masipata — fruit
• Chavacano: saging — fruit
• Chechen: банан (banan) — fruit
• Cherokee: ᏆᏁᎾ (quanena) — fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 香蕉 (hoeng1 ziu1) — fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 蕉 (ziu1) — fruit
• Chinese: щёнҗё (xionjio) — fruit
• Chinese: баҗё (bajio) — fruit
• Eastern Min Chinese: 芭蕉 (bă-ciĕu) — fruit
• Gan Chinese: 香蕉 (xiong1 'jieu1) — fruit
• Hakka Chinese: 弓蕉 (kiûng-chêu) — fruit
• Chinese: 弓蕉 /芎蕉 (keng-chio, kin-chio, geng-chio) — fruit
• Chinese: 金蕉 (kim-tsio) — fruit
• Jin Chinese: 香蕉 (xion1 jiau1) — fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 香蕉 (xiāngjiāo) — fruit
• Wu Chinese: 香蕉 (1shian-ciau) — fruit
• Xiang Chinese: 香蕉 (xian1 jiau1) — fruit
• West Circassian: бэнанэ (bɛnanɛ) — fruit
• Coptic: ⲁⲗⲗⲱⲕⲓ (allōki) — fruit
• Cornish: banana — fruit
• Cuyunon: saging — fruit
• Czech: banán — fruit
• Danish: banan — fruit
• Dhivehi: ދޮންކެޔޮ (don̊keyo) — fruit
• Central Dusun: punti — fruit
• Dutch: banaan — fruit
• Dutch: pisang — fruit
• Dutch: bacove — fruit
• Dzongkha: ངང་ལག (ngang lag) — fruit
• Enga: angató — fruit
• Esperanto: banano — fruit
• Estonian: banaan — fruit
• Farefare: kodugu — fruit
• Faroese: banan — fruit
• Finnish: banaani — fruit
• French: banane — fruit
• North Frisian: banaan — fruit
• North Frisian: banaon — fruit
• North Frisian: banåån — fruit
• North Frisian: Banaan — fruit
• West-Frisian: banaan — fruit
• Friulian: banane — fruit
• Galician: banana — fruit
• Georgian: ბანანი (banani) — fruit
• German: Banane — fruit
• Greek: μπανάνα (banána) — fruit
• Greenlandic: banani — fruit
• Paraguayan Guarani: pakova — fruit
• Gujarati: કેળું (keḷũ) — fruit
• Haitian Creole: fig — fruit
• Hausa: ayaba — fruit
• Hawaiian: maiʻa — fruit
• Hebrew: בָּנָנָה (banána) — fruit
• Higaonon: saging — fruit
• Hiligaynon: saging — fruit
• Hindi: केला (kelā) — fruit
• Hiri Motu: biku — fruit
• Hungarian: banán — fruit
• Hunsrik: Banann — fruit
• Ibaloi: balat — fruit
• Icelandic: banani — fruit
• Icelandic: bjúgaldin — fruit
• Ido: banano — fruit
• Batad Ifugao: balat — fruit
• Ilocano: saba — fruit
• Inabaknon: punti — fruit
• Indonesian: pisang — fruit
• Interlingua: banana — fruit
• Irish: banana — fruit
• Isoko: oruvbo — fruit
• Italian: banana — fruit
• Ivatan: vinyiveh — fruit
• Japanese: バナナ (banana) — fruit
• Japanese: 甘蕉 (kanshō) — fruit
• Javanese: gedhang — fruit
• Javanese: pisang — fruit
• Old Javanese: pisaṅ — fruit
• Old Javanese: punti — fruit
• Kabyle: lbanan — fruit
• Kachama-Ganjule: muze (Kachama) — fruit
• Tagakaulu Kalagan: saging — fruit
• Limos Kalinga: balat — fruit
• Keley-I Kallahan: balat — fruit
• Kalmyk: һадль (ğadlʹ) — fruit
• Kanakanabu: nivanga — fruit
• Kannada: ಬಾಳೆಹಣ್ಣು (bāḷehaṇṇu) — fruit
• Kapampangan: sagin — fruit
• Karao: balat — fruit
• S'gaw Karen: တကွံသၣ် (ta kwee thà) — fruit
• Kashmiri: کیلہٕ (kēlụ) — fruit
• Kashmiri: केलॖ (kēlụ) — fruit
• Kavalan: benina — fruit
• Kazakh: банан (banan) — fruit
• Kazakh: мәуіз (mäuız) — fruit
• Khmer: ចេក (ceek) — fruit
• Kikuyu: irigũ — fruit
• Kituba: dikondo — fruit
• Kongo: dinkondo — fruit
• Korean: 바나나 (banana) — fruit
• Kuna: madun — fruit
• Central Kurdish: مۆز (moz) — fruit
• Northern Kurdish: mûz — fruit
• Kyrgyz: банан (banan) — fruit
• Ladakhi: ཀེ་ལའི (ke la'i) — fruit
• Lao: ຫມາກກ້ວຍ (māk kuāi) — fruit
• Lao: ກ້ວຍ (kuāi) — fruit
• Latin: ariēna — fruit
• Latin: ariēra — fruit
• Latin: mūsa — fruit
• Latin: banana — fruit
• Latvian: banāns — fruit
• Lengo: vudi — fruit
• Lingala: ntela — fruit
• Lingala: likondo — fruit
• Lithuanian: bananas — fruit
• Low German: Banaan — fruit
• Lü: ᦂᦽᧉ (k̇oy2) — fruit
• Lutuv: buohla — fruit
• Luxembourgish: Banann — fruit
• Macedonian: бана́на (banána) — fruit
• Maguindanao: sagin — fruit
• Malagasy: akondro — fruit
• Malay: pisang — fruit
• Malay: mauz — fruit
• Brunei Malay: pisang — fruit
• Malayalam: പഴം (paḻaṁ) — fruit
• Malayalam: വാഴപ്പഴം (vāḻappaḻaṁ) — fruit
• Maltese: banana — fruit
• Mamanwa: saging — fruit
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: saɣing — fruit
• Manx: bananey — fruit
• Manx: corran bwee — fruit
• Māori: panana — fruit
• Māori: maika — fruit
• Maranao: saging — fruit
• Marathi: केळे (keḷe) — fruit
• Masbatenyo: saging — fruit
• Mauritian Creole: banann — fruit
• Central Melanau: baleak — fruit
• Mohawk: teiotahià꞉kton — fruit
• Mohawk: baná꞉ne — fruit
• Mon: ဗြာတ် (brāt) — fruit
• Mongolian: гадил (gadil) — fruit
• Mongolian: банан (banan) — fruit
• Mongolian: банана (banana) — fruit
• Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠳᠠᠯᠢ (ɣadali) — fruit
• Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠨᠠᠨ (banan) — fruit
• Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠨᠠᠨᠠ (banana) — fruit
• Motu: bigu — fruit
• Muong: chuổi — fruit
• Tagal Murut: punti — fruit
• Navajo: hashkʼaan — fruit
• Nepali: केरा (kerā) — fruit
• Norman: banane — fruit
• Norwegian Bokmål: banan — fruit
• Nupe: yàbà — fruit
• Occitan: banana — fruit
• Odia: କଦଳୀ (kadaḷi) — fruit
• Ojibwe: akandamoo — fruit
• Oromo: muuzii — fruit
• Paiwan: veljevelj — fruit
• Brooke's Point Palawano: punti — fruit
• Pangasinan: pontí — fruit
• Pangasinan: punti — fruit
• Pannonian Rusyn: банана (banana) — fruit
• Pashto: کيله (kila) — fruit
• Dari: کیلَه (kēla) — fruit
• Dari: موز (mōz) — fruit
• Iranian Persian: مُوْز (mowz) — fruit
• Iranian Persian: بَنان (banân) — fruit
• Pipil: kinia — fruit
• Plautdietsch: Banan — fruit
• Plautdietsch: Boomworscht — fruit
• Polish: banan — fruit
• Portuguese: banana — fruit
• Punjabi: ਕੇਲਾ (kelā) — fruit
• Puyuma: belrbelr — fruit
• Quechua: latanu — fruit
• Quechua: latanus — fruit
• Rapa Nui: māika — fruit
• Rohingya: kelā — fruit
• Romagnol: banâna — fruit
• Romanian: banană — fruit
• Romansh: banana — fruit
• Rukai: belebele — fruit
• Russian: бана́н (banán) — fruit
• Saaroa: tavʉhlʉvʉhlʉ — fruit
• Saisiyat: tawmo' — fruit
• Sakizaya: paza' — fruit
• Sambali: batag — fruit
• Samoan: fa'i — fruit
• Sangil: vusa — fruit
• Sanskrit: कदली (kadalī) — fruit
• Santali: ᱠᱟᱭᱨᱟ (kayra) — fruit
• Sardinian: banana — fruit
• Scottish Gaelic: banana — fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: бана́на — fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: banána — fruit
• Shan: ၵူၺ်ႈ (kōi) — fruit
• Sherpa: ཀེ་ར (ke ra) — fruit
• Sidamo: muuze — fruit
• Sindhi: ڪيانا (kyānā) — fruit
• Sinhalese: කෙසෙල් (kesel) — fruit
• Slovak: banán — fruit
• Slovene: banana — fruit
• Somali: muus — fruit
• Lower Sorbian: banana — fruit
• Upper Sorbian: banana — fruit
• Masbate Sorsogon: saging — fruit
• Waray Sorsogon: saging — fruit
• Sotho: banana — fruit
• Southern Altai: банан (banan) — fruit
• Spanish: banana — fruit
• Spanish: banano — fruit
• Spanish: cambur — fruit
• Spanish: guineo — fruit
• Spanish: mínimo — fruit
• Spanish: plátano — fruit
• Spanish: plátano fruta — fruit
• Spanish: fongo — fruit
• Sranan Tongo: bakba — fruit
• Sundanese: cau — fruit
• Sundanese: pisang — fruit
• Swahili: ndizi — fruit
• Swedish: banan — fruit
• Tagalog: saging — fruit
• Tagalog: alinsanay — fruit
• Tahitian: me'a — fruit
• Tai Dam: ꪀ꫁ꪺꪥ — fruit
• Tajik: мавз (mavz) — fruit
• Tajik: банан (banan) — fruit
• Tamil: வாழைப்பழம் (vāḻaippaḻam) — fruit
• Taroko: blebun — fruit
• Taroko: blbul — fruit
• Tatar: банан (banan) — fruit
• Tausug: saing — fruit
• Telugu: అరటిపండు (araṭipaṇḍu) — fruit
• Tetum: hudi — fruit
• Tetum: hudi-fuan — fruit
• Tokelauan: fuāfai — fruit
• Thai: กล้วย (glûai) — fruit
• Thao: fizfiz — fruit
• Tibetan: ཀེ་ར (ke ra) — fruit
• Tibetan: ཀེ་ལ (ke la) — fruit
• Tibetan: ངང་ལག (ngang lag) — fruit
• Tigrinya: ሙዝ (muz) — fruit
• Tigrinya: ባናና (banana) — fruit
• Tiruray: saging — fruit
• Tok Pisin: banana — fruit
• Tongan: siaine — fruit
• Tsou: cnʉmʉ — fruit
• Tumbuka: ntochi — fruit
• Turkish: muz — fruit
• Ottoman Turkish: موز (mevz, meviz, muz) — fruit
• Turkmen: banan — fruit
• Ukrainian: бана́н (banán) — fruit
• Urdu: کیلا (kelā) — fruit
• Uyghur: بانان (banan) — fruit
• Uzbek: banan — fruit
• Vietnamese: (trái) chuối — fruit
• Vietnamese: (quả) chuối — fruit
• Volapük: benen — fruit
• Waray-Waray: saging — fruit
• Welsh: banana — fruit
• Welsh: ffrwchnedd — fruit
• Winnebago: ceerap — fruit
• Winnebago: wažąhe — fruit
• Wolaytta: muuziya — fruit
• Wolof: banaana — fruit
• Yami: vineveh — fruit
• Yiddish: באַנאַנע (banane) — fruit
• Yoruba: ọ̀gẹ̀dẹ̀ — fruit
• Zhuang: gyoij — fruit
• Zhuang: gyoijhom — fruit
• Zulu: ubhanana class 1a/2a — fruit
• Afrikaans: piesangboom — plant
• Albanian: banane — plant
• Asturian: plátanu — plant
• Basque: bananondo — plant
• Central Bikol: kahoy nin batag — plant
• Breton: bananezenn — plant
• Bulgarian: бана́ново дърво́ (banánovo dǎrvó) — plant
• Burmese: ငှက်ပျော (hngakpyau:) — plant
• Catalan: bananer — plant
• Catalan: plataner — plant
• Chinese Cantonese: 香蕉樹 /香蕉树 (hoeng1 ziu1 syu6) — plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 香蕉樹 /香蕉树 (xiāngjiāoshù) — plant
• Maore Comorian: trindri — plant
• Czech: banánovník — plant
• Dutch: bananenplant — plant
• Esperanto: bananarbo — plant
• Esperanto: bananujo — plant
• Finnish: banaani — plant
• Finnish: banaanikasvi — plant
• French: bananier — plant
• Galician: plátano — plant
• Galician: plataneiro — plant
• Saxwe Gbe: yocyotin — plant
• German: Bananenstaude — plant
• Greek: μπανανιά (bananiá) — plant
• Hawaiian: maiʻa — plant
• Ido: bananiero — plant
• Indonesian: pisang — plant
• Irish: crann bananaí — plant
• Italian: banano — plant
• Javanese: gedhang — plant
• Javanese: pisang — plant
• Coastal Kadazan: punti — plant
• Latin: pala — plant
• Latvian: banāns — plant
• Macedonian: бана́на (banána) — plant
• Malay: pokok pisang — plant
• Brunei Malay: puhun pisang — plant
• Brunei Malay: pukuk pisang — plant
• Malayalam: വാഴ (vāḻa) — plant
• Maltese: banana — plant
• Mon: တၞံဗြာတ် (tnaṁ brāt) — plant
• Norwegian Bokmål: bananplante — plant
• Occitan: bananièr — plant
• Polish: bananowiec — plant
• Polish: banan — plant
• Portuguese: bananeira — plant
• Romagnol: banân — plant
• Romanian: bananier — plant
• Romanian: banan — plant
• Russian: бана́н (banán) — plant
• Russian: бана́новое де́рево (banánovoje dérevo) — plant
• Sanskrit: कदल (kadala) — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: бана́на — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: banána — plant
• Slovak: banánovník — plant
• Slovene: bananovec — plant
• Spanish: bananero — plant
• Spanish: banano — plant
• Swahili: mgomba — plant
• Swedish: bananplanta — plant
• Tagalog: puno ng saging — plant
• Tamil: வாழை (vāḻai) — plant
• Tatar: банан (banan) — plant
• Telugu: అరటిచెట్టు (araṭiceṭṭu) — plant
• Telugu: అంటిచెట్టు (aṇṭiceṭṭu) — plant
• Tetum: hudi — plant
• Tetum: hudi-hun — plant
• Thai: ต้นกล้วย — plant
• Vietnamese: (cây) chuối — plant
• Welsh: coed bananas — plant
• Albanian: banane — color
• Chinese Mandarin: 香蕉顏色 /香蕉颜色 (xiāngjiāo yánsè) — color
• Chinese Mandarin: 香蕉色 (xiāngjiāosè) — color
• Dutch: bananengeel — color
• Finnish: banaaninkeltainen — color
• Ido: bananea — color
• Korean: 바나나색 (bananasaek) — color
• Malay: pisang — color
• Polish: bananowy — color
• Portuguese: amarelo-banana — color
• Romanian: banan — color
• Welsh: melyn banana — color
• Chinese Mandarin: 香蕉人 (xiāngjiāorén) — pejorative: person of Asian descent
• Finnish: vinosilmä — pejorative: person of Asian descent