banana
Significado
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- An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
- An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
- 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.
- A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
- A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.
- (slang) The penis.
- A banana kick.
- A banana equivalent dose.
- (colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
Frecuencia
Guionizado como
ba‧na‧na
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/bəˈnɑː.nə/
Etimoloxía
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). 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, White (Westernized) on the inside".
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