“Ananas” means “pineapple” in several languages.
More like most of them lol
Here is Petru, Peter's European relative. The term "ananas" refers to pineapple in most European languages.
Petru departs
I think you accidentally replied💀💀
Lol first time is happened to me though so I'll take it lol
And Asian Languages it's originally from Malay, where nanas means pineapple. (No a)
Not true. The word originally came ancient Tupi word (from Tupi people in now modern Brazil). Asia probably got it from colonisers.
Nanas/Hoyriri is the English translation of the fruits name. It's originally from South America.
Ananas is also pineapple in Danish, my first language
Yes it's widely used across Europe,
Bun'ziua domn petru
Piña master race
Can confirm it's not the case in at least 8 of the regional Indian languages. Probably not in most Asian or African languages.
Nanasi in Swahili. Edit Swahili is vowels for days. Most if not all words, gotta have a vowel at the end. That's pretty much the only reason it's not just "Nanas"
This map shows who calls pineapples 'ananas' an who doesn't. All the countries colored in pink call them ananas. Even Israel (which is off the edge of the map) and the Arab nations call them 'ananas'.
Only English and Spanish are exceptions (EDIT: In Europe I mean. Chinese doesn't call pineapples 'ananas'. In Chinese, they're 鳳梨 "phoenix pears". And Japanese transliterates the English term 'pineapple': パイナップル: painappuru).
And not all variants of Spanish call them "piña". At least in Argentina, we call them "ananá".
In Brazil it's "abacaxi"
No, "ananás" and "abacaxi" are different species. They look a lot alike, but one is smaller and sweeter, the other is bigger and more bitter.
There are some Austrian German dialects where Ananas means Garden Strawberry... From their botanical name Fragaria × ananassa.
If one wants to talk about pineapples, one would say Hawaiian Ananas.
I've never heard anyone call them Hawaiian Ananas. In the dialect I grew up with both strawberries and pineapples are just Ananas and it's usually easy to figure out which one you mean based on context. Often the article is enough, if it's "a Ananas" it was almost always a pineapple, because you're rarely talking about just one single strawberry and rarely need more than one entire pineapple.
But I didn't know it comes from the botanical name. It actually makes a little more sense that way. I thought we were just insane.
Esperanto uses Ananas- as the root the noun is Ananaso and the adjective is Ananasa. The plural is Ananasoj. If an action is being done to the direct object it gets the -n ending.
Even Israel (which is off the edge of the map) and the Arab nations call them 'ananas'.
Well now I don't understand why they're even fighting anymore
Any reason why they’re called ‘abacaxi’ in Brazil? I’m just wondering
O termo "abacaxi" é oriundo da junção dos termos tupis i'bá (fruto) e ká'ti (recendente, que exala cheiro agradável e intenso), documentado já no início do séc. XIX.
O termo "ananás" (em português e espanhol) é do guarani e tupi antigo naná, e documentado em português na primeira metade do séc. XVI e em espanhol na segunda (1578), sendo empréstimo do português do Brasil ou da sua língua geral
Obrigada!!
por nada! 😁
What do those countries call bananas?
Ineapple
As a bilingual that speaks both Spanish and English, I’ve never heard anyone say it ananas, kinda funny that two of the most spoken languages in the world don’t call them like that.
In Chinese they're also not called ananas. In Chinese, pineapples are "phoenix pears".
pineapple is a really stupid word. basically every language calls it ananas other than english
There was an interesting video talking about the etymology of the word. Basically nations that had the pineapples imported from places that called them ananas (and other variations) adopted that word. English called them pineapples because literally any fruit was referred to as an apple, pinecones were also called pineapples and the pineapple we know today has a resemblance to the pine cone. Don’t know how Spain ended up with piña instead of ananas tho
Pinecones are called pineapples in the Netherlands “Dennenappel”
Piña is kinda similar case. Pine tree in spanish is pino and its fruits are calles piñones which are kinda similar looking to piñas
If the word has the same meaning as the italian pigna, it's just that, a pinecone.
Looking up the pineus pinea wikipedia entry seems to confirm that they're synonims.
In French a pineapple is a pinecone
basically every language calls it ananas other than english
Don't know about that one. In Vietnamese for example pineapple is called trái dứa
When Europeans are talking about “every language” or “the entire world,” basically what they mean is “Europe”
It’s stupid to think that using a less common word is stupid.
While in Brasil ananás is technically correct, we call it Abacaxi, as the name has native origins
It is called "Annasi" in mine.
Like almost every language but english
I thought that it was a chemistry joke
as an indian this hits real hard.
In Dutch it's a literal translation.
That's bananas
🇪🇸 piña
Fyi. Pina in Hungarian language means vagina.
Pine in French means dick.
In danish pine means, agony, torment, suffering, pain.
Edit: ohh and we also call it Ananas
Penis in English means dick
I have end-term exams for French today, this will surely give me at least one extra point
It's female, so it's "une pine".
Why is the male genitalia a female word?
Also “la bitte”
Gendered nouns don’t make sense.
'le con' and 'le vagin' are male for female genitalia.
But 'la chatte' (pussy) is female.
There are no sense, which is hard for foreigners to learn by heart and somehow makes french people giggle when not using the right gender.
Pina in finnish doesn't mean anything.
Of course because anything is mitä vaan in finnish.
Pina in portugal is slang for (he/she) fucks
Konnichiwa Mr. Cookie, ookii pine and chisai pina, or oishi ananas desuka?
There you go. Mixed multiple languages together because I hate you.
Alright, the rest of this thread has given me the knowledge I need. It’s time for me and my minimal japanese comprehension to take a stab at untangling this.
Hello, Mr. Cookie, is it a big dick and small vag, or delicious pineapples?
…What the hell does this mean, anon?
So a piña colada is... o_o
Colada 🥥
🇧🇷 abacaxi
En español tambien se le puede decir anana
Sí, pero en castellano todo el mundo le dice "piña".
🇿🇦 piesang
🇧🇷abacaxi
The French are in no position to judge, they call potatoes ‘earth apples’.
Some good old Pomme de terre.
We also simply call them patates
That's just one way to say it, you can use patate too
Dutch also (aardappel) There’s also aardpeer (earth pear aka Jerusalem artichoke, which is an insane name). But if you cut an earth apple in biggish pieces and deep fry it, but not as well as they do in Belgium, it’s called patat.
Some German dialects use that as well (erdapfel/ardappel and similar). Still makes more sense than pineapple, though.
They have both.
Edit: they have this and variation on kartofel
"B-but it looks like a pinecone!" Some bri'ish bloke☝️🤓
Well that's why it's "pine"apples, the "apples" came from old English calling basically all fruit "apples", so they were merged when they started to realize "Hey, maybe we should use more than 1 work for all these differing food items"
They really didn’t have many kinds of fruit that grew there.
Finally germany is not the looser.
CZECH MENTIONED 😱
Damn 6th Ranger always messing things up
I wonder if there was any particular reason they chose to use the outdated 1707-1801 version of the Union flag (that excludes Ireland) lol
Almost in every European language pineapple is called "ananas"
Chad Spain who has a differing name that isn't stupid sounding like pineapple 💪
We literally just reused the world for pinecone
Its a better name but in originality i have to give the point to the UK
Also dunnt thing, in Argentina they do call pineapples "ananás", there a "piña" is a punch to the face
I also like to call pineaples Scale 1:6000000
What is this tiny language in the north of the Netherlands? Frysian?
Probably. There's also Low German speakers slightly to the southeast of that, but most likely they call it 'Ananas', too.
ananasas
*Ananas for Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Even in several Indian languages.
Ah, so the English messed it up for us. That makes sense.
Also arabic same latters and pronunciation
In turkish, too!
Bulgarian too
same for italian
Danish too
Polish too
Hindi too
Finnish too
Also Norwegian.
Edit: Why did i get downvoted?!
Russian and German too
Hungarian too
Some dialects of spanish say ananá as well.
Also in Hindi
Danish too
Same in Polish, it's also ananas.
Also in italian too
The same in Portuguese
Same in italian
In Russian too
Iranian too
Also Lithuanian!!
Same in Albanian, too.
Petru here, Peter's european cousin, in most european languages pineapple is called ananas
Petru out
Most European languages call pineapples “ananas” except for English and Spanish (piña)
🅱️ananas
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Edit: With the comments I linked... just want to say the fact that some subs do have a LARGE tendency to develop hive-mind, and that has to make your "job" harder.
A joke:
Russian tourists in a Dutch store:
"Pliz, giv us one, uh... Hey, Vladimir, what is the English word for ananas?"
"I think it's something like 'pineapple'."
"One pineapple pliz."
The Dutch store clerk shouts to another.
"Hey Willem, the want some 'pineapple'. What the hell is that?"
"Try to give them an ananas."
In Maharashtra, a state of India, Pineapple is called Ananas !😃
Marathi brothers unite
In tamil nadu too it's called Anachi, which is quite close. So, it's definitely not a coincidence I think.
Even in Hindi!
A lot of country call pineapple "ananas"
Majority of places call it Ananas while English is one of the only languages that calls them Pineapples
pineapple in arabic is أناناس (ananas)
The realisation that Gwen Stefani was actually saying for us to be a pineapple rather than spelling the words bananas all those years ago.
She aint no hollabackgirl, you know
Spot the American OP
ananas comosus is pineapple's scientific name
I’m a majority of languages “ananas” means “pineapple”
In not I’m I hate autocorrect
God forbid you just do a Google search
How to say you're not a Latin-based language without saying you're a Latin-based language
Wait until you hear about panda
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ananas is french for pineapple
And pretty much every other language for pineapple except english
Well, there are at least a few other significant ones where it isn't, like Spanish and Portuguese and Tagalog and Vietnamese...
Portuguese??
Went back and checked--apparently it's specifically Brazilian Portuguese, where it's abacaxi. This is not firsthand knowledge, so I may be missing context.
We have a abacaxi in Portugal as well but ananas is even more commonly used.
and chinese, korean, japanese, thai, welsh, a lot of south african languages...
Ananá is also a word in spanish. Varies from region to region.
Yes, even most of the Indian languages
It’s the same in German.
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literally every other language calle pineapples "Ananas"
In Greece, pineapple is also Ananas
In many languages (not english) Ananas (Bananas without the b at the front) means Pineapple.
Salut mon ami! French Peter here. Le mots de "pinapple" en français est "ananas".
Au revoir!
Yes, my French sucks.
Now swap the first a for an e
English moment
Ananas does mean Pineapple in Arabic, I can confirm as a Syrian (which you could've guessed from my username)
This shit is pineapples! It’s ananas!
indonesian, Nanas
Ананас
Danes assemble!
Asking for ananas juice is always fun
Super obvious to Canadians who have both English and French printed on food labels.
You couldn’t take 2 seconds to google ananas?
Oh come on man, really ? You dont know about Ananas?
This is the funniest meme I’ve seen in a while :D
We call it "Piña" in ol' Dominican Republic.
said every language but english
And Brazilian Portuguese, we call it Abacaxi (pronounced ah bah kah shee), but i think everyone here knows what ananas means
Pineapple is called ananas in Arabic
I get the joke, but who is in the picture? I see no one.
Interestingly it is called ananas in Marathi (language used in Maharashtra state of India) as well. Probably, due to it coming from European colonists and not being native to India
There is a french joke which goes « how do you pronounce ‘ananas’ ( the french word for pineapple) in english? ‘Anana’ or ‘Ananas’? Haha its pineapple you dummy! ».
Basically, do you pronounce the S or is it silent like the S is silent in french.
Learned this from Endless Online back in the day.
Can somebody tell me what’s going on with abacaxi? One of the funnest words to say
Ananas.
So it basically means that ananas is often an alternative to pineapple(my most hated friut)
A lesser fruit :)
Anana
French: "hey English look at this new fruit we found"
English: "oh shit, thats freaky looking, what's it called?"
French: "ananas"
English: "a nanas? Firstly it's Banana, but I guess we shorten it to nana, and it should be a nana, or some nanas not a nanas. Also they look nothing like bananas"
French: "no ananas, all one word, it's different from banana"
English: "so it would be An Ananas... And it still sounds like banana and looks nothing like nanas. Hey Spanish, have you seen this pinecone looking fucker?"
Spanish: "oh yeah, we just call em pinecones"
English: "guess it's better than An Ananas.. french, as usual, you're dumb and we should have another war"
French: "war you say? I'm free for 7 years or so, let's do it"
the joke is that people use pineapples as fleshlights “an anas (anus)”
This video explains it very well I think
IT IS NOT A PINE FRUIT NOR APPLE. PINE IS A FORREST TREE ABD APPLE IS A FROIT AND PINEAPPLE IS EXOTIC FRUOT. NOTHING IN COMMON WITH APPLE NOR PINE. WHY ?
Welcome to English language. Nothing makes sense. Did you know that flagrate and deflagrate both mean " to burn."
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Also French.
An Anas?
OP is definitely American. *
One of my exes had a bumper sticker for some soda called Ananasbrus. One time I was smoking in the parking lot near her car and heard a guy walking past ask loudly, "what the fuck is an anus brew?" And now I think about that every time ananas comes up.
With or without B, it does not fucking belong on a pizza...
Surprised nobody said "An anus". Maybe I'm just too immature
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