'Banana' is a word borrowed from Wolof 'banaana'. The word entered the English language some time around 1597.
banana [noun] [1597]
- an elongated usually tapering tropical fruit with soft pulpy flesh enclosed in a soft usually yellow rind
- any of several widely cultivated perennial herbs (genus Musa of the family Musaceae, the banana family) bearing in com...
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Etymology: Spanish or Portuguese; Spanish, from Portuguese, of African origin; akin to Wolof 'banaana' banana
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