köken: Inherited from Middle High German gerüchte (Central German), borrowed from Middle Low German geruchte, gerüchte. This northern form replaced earlier Middle High German geruofte, gerüefte, from Old High German geruofti. The noun ultimately pertains to the verb rufen (“to call”) (Old High German ruofan, Old Saxon hrōpan). The Low German form is based on the shift -ft- → -cht- (cf. Nichte); the same…
köken: Distorted from Arabic بَطَّال (baṭṭāl) or another word from the root ب ط ل (b ṭ l), or maybe from بَتَرَ (batara, “to cut off”) in view of Salamancan baldorro (“beast that one culls for being old or sick”), baldorras and boldregas (“tattered”), Aragonese and Spanish baldrés (“tanned sheep hide”), Portuguese and Galician baldréu (“goat-hide for gloves; depraved person”), Canarian baladrón…
köken: Borrowed from Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar). Cognate with Karachay-Balkar хапар (xapar), Azerbaijani xəbər, Bashkir хәбәр (xəbər), Kazakh хабар (xabar), Khakas хабар (xabar), Kumyk хабар (xabar), Nogai хабар (xabar), Ottoman Turkish خبر (haber), Shor қабар, Tatar хәбәр (xäbär), Turkmen habar, Uyghur خەۋەر (xewer), Uzbek xabar, Chuvash хыпар (hyp̬ar), etc.
köken: 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.
aile: banana de dinamite, banana-comprida, banana-da-terra, banana-pão, bananal, bananão, bananeira, bananinha, embananar, república das bananas