バナナ
解説 Definition
バナナという意味です。黄色く細長い果物を指し、食べ物や味について話すときによく使います。日本語のカタカナ語「バナナ」とほぼ同じ意味です。
A banana is a long, curved fruit with soft, sweet flesh and a peel that is commonly yellow when ripe. The word is a countable noun for an individual fruit and also appears before other nouns to describe its flavor or ingredients.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
日本語とほぼ同じ果物ですが、英語では a banana、two bananas と可算名詞として使います。黄色い一本なら a ripe banana、味なら banana flavor、房なら a bunch of bananas と場面ごと覚えましょう。第2音節を強く発音する点もカタカナ発音との違いです。
Use the familiar fruit as your visual anchor, but learn its English grammar and combinations. One fruit is a banana, while several are bananas. Common phrases include a ripe banana, a bunch of bananas, banana bread, and banana flavor. The word is countable when it means an individual fruit, as in I eat a banana for breakfast. English stress normally falls on the middle syllable, unlike the flatter rhythm often heard in the Japanese loanword バナナ. Connecting the word with a yellow curved fruit, its number forms, and these everyday phrases makes it immediately usable.
例文
I eat a banana for breakfast.
私は朝食にバナナを食べます。
This banana is sweet.
このバナナは甘いです。
He put a banana in his bag.
彼はかばんにバナナを入れました。
banana の類義語・関連語
派生語
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banana の語源・成り立ち Etymology
西アフリカの言語（ウォロフ語 banaana 等）を経てポルトガル語・スペイン語から英語に入った。アラビア語 bānān（指）が起源とする説もあり、房の形が指に似ていることに由来する。植物学用語 Musa もアラビア語経由である。
English banana was recorded in the early modern period and came through Spanish or Portuguese from a West African language, often identified with Wolof banaana or a related regional form. The deeper history is not completely certain. A proposed connection with Arabic banan, “fingertips,” refers to the fingerlike shape of bananas in a bunch, but this explanation remains debated. The modern English word names both the fruit and, attributively, its flavor or use as an ingredient.
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