banaan

 

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

banaan

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• bananne (archaic)

Borrowed from Portuguese banana, probably from a West African language. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /baːˈnaːn/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧naan
• Rhymes: -aːn

banaan m or f (plural bananen, diminutive banaantje n)

1. banana

   Synonym: bacove

2. (Suriname) plantain

   Synonym: bakbanaan

3. (offensive, ethnic slur) black person, person of African heritage

• Berbice Creole Dutch: banana
• Negerhollands: banana
• Skepi Creole Dutch: banan
• →? Aukan: baana
• →? Sranan Tongo: bana
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: báná
  • → Caribbean Javanese: banah

 

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

banaan

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From German Banane.

• IPA^(key): /b̥ɑˈnɑːn/, [b̥ɑˈnɑːn]
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: ba‧naan

banaan (genitive banaani, partitive banaani)

1. banana

• banaan in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “banaan”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

banaan f

1. Veldeke spelling of Banaan

Borrowed from Dutch banaan, from Portuguese banana.

• IPA^(key): /baˈnaːn/, /bəˈnaːn/

banaan c (plural bananen, diminutive banaantsje)

1. banana

• bananerepublyk

• “banaan”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011