BANANA - Spanish noun cognate
02/03/09 10:50 Filed in: Cognate
*Some words in English are identical in Spanish*
banana |bəˈnanə|
noun
1 a long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe.
2 (also banana plant or banana tree) the tropical and subtropical treelike plant that bears this fruit. It has very large leaves and resembles a palm, but lacks a woody trunk. • Genus Musa, family Musaceae: several species, in particular M. sapientum.
3 adjective ( bananas) informal insane or extremely silly : he's beginning to think I'm bananas.
PHRASES
go bananas informal go insane : Roy's customers think the council has gone bananas. • rave; cheer wildly : I have never had a product that people went so bananas over. • become extremely angry or excited : she went bananas when I said I was going to leave the job.
second banana |ˈsɛkən(d) bəˈnønə| informal the second most important person in an organization or activity.
top banana informal the most important person in an organization or activity.
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande.
banana |bəˈnanə|
noun
1 a long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe.
2 (also banana plant or banana tree) the tropical and subtropical treelike plant that bears this fruit. It has very large leaves and resembles a palm, but lacks a woody trunk. • Genus Musa, family Musaceae: several species, in particular M. sapientum.
3 adjective ( bananas) informal insane or extremely silly : he's beginning to think I'm bananas.
PHRASES
go bananas informal go insane : Roy's customers think the council has gone bananas. • rave; cheer wildly : I have never had a product that people went so bananas over. • become extremely angry or excited : she went bananas when I said I was going to leave the job.
second banana |ˈsɛkən(d) bəˈnønə| informal the second most important person in an organization or activity.
top banana informal the most important person in an organization or activity.
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande.