banana – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: banana
Gender: f mf Hyphenation:

Singular m	banana
Singular f	banana
Plural m	bananas
Plural f	bananas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like banana

semita, sensei, selfie, neurologista, violinista, gremista, sapeca, militante, sacana, antitradicionalista, sovina, somali, activista, belmontense, flautista, humanista, antiaristocrata, felgueirense, adjuvante, antissemita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Further 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. The sense as an adjective is a Semantic loan from English banana.

Verbs referencing "banana"

English Nouns banana, Spanish Nouns banana, French Nouns banane, German Nouns Banane, Russian Nouns банан, Dutch Nouns banaan, Icelandic Nouns banani, Danish Nouns banan, Faroese Nouns banan, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns banan, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns banan, Polish Nouns banan, Czech Nouns banán, Hungarian Nouns banán, Slovak Nouns banán, Latvian Nouns banāns.

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