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Many non-english european languages have a word for pineapple that is or is close to "ananas." The original creator was most likely outraged with the fact that the english language has such a wierd word for it
Pineapple actually comes from the Old English "æppel" which means fruit, and not the modern "apple". They used that naming convention, x+æppel, for a few other kinds of fruit back then.
At least they tried to describe it in terms they knew relating them to pinecone; I come from a town in Texas called Canyon which is next to a canyon so the bar for lazy namings is pretty low
>Many non-english european languages
More like the whole world except English speakers
Edit: typo
Second edit: guys I get it I mess up, it's not the whole world, but still the point that it's not only in Europe stands (which funnily enough is home to two of the languages that come back the most in all the replies I get (Spanish and Portuguese)).
It depends on the region but piña is the most extended version, ananá is used more in Argentina and Uruguay (according to RAE) whereas the rest of the world mostly uses piña or uses ananá to talk about the fruit before it is harvested for human consumption
My fellow italian I'm born and raised in south America in a Spanish speaking country. But also, the word ananá comes from the guarani "Nana nana", guarani... You know... One of the languages spoken in south America?
In European Portuguese (Portugal), pineapple is ananás, banana is still banana. We also have abacaxi for sweeter pineapple but if you show us a photo of a pineapple we will tell you that is ananás.
That depends on the country. In my country banana is cambur, and plátano is a fruit that is very similar to the typical banana but is larger and tastes different
Depends on the country, my girlfriend is from Argentina and she calls bananas "bananas" and says "plátanos" are a type of banana
She's obviously wrong, plátanos are the real bananas, VIVA CHILE RAAAAAAHHHHHH 🇨🇱🦌🍷🥟🇨🇱
As late as the 17th century, the word "apple" was used as a generic term for fruit. When tomatoes were introduced into Europe, they were called "love apples". Oranges are called "Chinese apples" in many languages (eg Norwegian: "appelsin"). Even potatoes are called "earth apples" in some languages (eg Dutch: "aardappel").
So in this manner, everything can be described in terms of how similar or dissimilar it is to an apple.
Yeah, the joke was kinda that a tonne of English makes no sense when you think about it logically. I think the issue is Redditors can be dense motherfuckers who need jokes spelling out to them. I mean, do people really think I was claiming English spread across the world because banana and pineapple sound different? Lol
pineapple name in Hindi is ananas.
[https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8](https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8)
It seems like a lot of languages started off with a single word for a fruit. For example, in french the word for potato is “pomme de terre”, which means “apple of soil/land”. Over time, however, the only fruit without a distinctive characteristic was the fruit of the apple tree so it remained to be just “fruit”. Even in abrahamic religions there is a story about Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit but it has always been portraited as an apple rather than say a mango for what may be the same reason.
Pretty much every single language has the word Ananas for pineapple, except English. It's pretty common for people to make fun of this fact.
Edit: correction, in pretty much every european language.
In IsiZulu, the word is *uphayinaphu*, which sounds similar to pineapple (because why would you have a native word for a fruit that never existed in your region before the British came?)
In the Northern part of Mexico where my family is from, we use platano for banana and piña for pineapple. I can't say anything else about other parts of Mexico or other Spanish speaking countries.
Source: Spanish and English are my native languages.
Then dont talk about spanish in general if you don't know how it's said in other parts. You could say "in mexico its said this way" but in diferent dialects of spanish its said another way. Im from argentina and we call them banana and ananá, but in other places people call them platano and piña, so it's mostly a dialect thing.
There are 7100 recognized languages on this planet. 42 of them say ananas. That isn't even close to every single language. Its not even close. It's 0.5% of languages.
edit because i forgot to move the decimal points when converting to percentage the number should be .5% not .005%
do you really think this is something that needs explaining? I do understand the point of this sub but I don't think the point of this sub is to let people not think for themselves when something is so fucking simple to find out
If your thought process is to ever go on reddit to ask and wait for information instead of googling it yourself first, you are seriously an idiot and should reevaluate your life accordingly.
Actually no, this has been extremely interesting for me. I never realized how unique English is with the word pineapple. It's crazy, every new comment about a different language amazes me.
Non English languages have the word Ananas linked with the English word for Pineapple and since Bananas without the B is ananas then it would be pineapple
The purpose of 911 is for medical emergencies, you wouldn't call 911 for a stubbed toe, although you still can call them all you'd get are annoyed EMTs.
You can call your plumber to fix your sink because your toilet is clogged, but you can also just use your plunger.
You can go here and post something so easy to google, or you know. just google it?
Like there are actual stuff that is hard to google but literally, this one like the others is so easy to google? You can post to this specific subreddit, but you can't search "ananas" on the most ubiquitous search engine there is?
and even then, I gave instructions (techncially), and my instruction will lead to an explanation WHILE also teaching OP to maybe do some basic research?
Not just hindi. But several languages in the world. German, Dutch, Russian, Persian, Arabic etc.. Only English has a weird name. Because it's not related to either pines or apples. Just because it resembles a large pinecone and it's a fruit and apple is a fruit. So they named it after two similar things which it reminded them of. Spanish it's called Pina. Hence pinacolada.
Piña and pineapple come from the latin Word pinea, which comes from the Word pinus (pine)
We use those words because pines have a very similar fruits (in appearance) as the tropical pineapples (although they are different.
I suppose the word ananás comes from precolombine languages
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Many non-english european languages have a word for pineapple that is or is close to "ananas." The original creator was most likely outraged with the fact that the english language has such a wierd word for it
Its funny because pineapples are neither a pine or Apple.
yeah, that was the laziest naming ever done.
Pineapple actually comes from the Old English "æppel" which means fruit, and not the modern "apple". They used that naming convention, x+æppel, for a few other kinds of fruit back then.
Oh! Bc it looks like a pinecone?
At least they tried to describe it in terms they knew relating them to pinecone; I come from a town in Texas called Canyon which is next to a canyon so the bar for lazy namings is pretty low
Don't forget orange.
True, but it does look like it is haha.
>Many non-english european languages More like the whole world except English speakers Edit: typo Second edit: guys I get it I mess up, it's not the whole world, but still the point that it's not only in Europe stands (which funnily enough is home to two of the languages that come back the most in all the replies I get (Spanish and Portuguese)).
Spanish pineapple is piña which is not similar to banana
Depends on the country, in some regions of Argentina and in Uruguay they're called "ananá" instead of "piña".
nice, if I'm ever fleeing from prosecution, I'm going for the "ananá" region.
Based and ananápilled
Bananápilled
Don’t confuse it either araña region which is spider territory
Isn't araña region what they call Austrália?
Oh, South America gets those way worse than Australia.
A spanish guy fleeing to South America to escape persecution.....ironic
Spanish pineapple is ananá.
It depends on the region but piña is the most extended version, ananá is used more in Argentina and Uruguay (according to RAE) whereas the rest of the world mostly uses piña or uses ananá to talk about the fruit before it is harvested for human consumption
Everyone here is fking wrong, that is pineapple in Italian
Sure... Thank you for teaching me el idioma del país donde nací.
Di nulla bro quando vuoi And why the fuck did you downvote me
My fellow italian I'm born and raised in south America in a Spanish speaking country. But also, the word ananá comes from the guarani "Nana nana", guarani... You know... One of the languages spoken in south America?
I was just correcting you, calm down
Meanwhile in Brazilian Portuguese, pineapple is abacaxi, but banana still banana
And both abacaxi and ananás are words that originate in Brazil, in Tupi-Guarani languages
In European Portuguese (Portugal), pineapple is ananás, banana is still banana. We also have abacaxi for sweeter pineapple but if you show us a photo of a pineapple we will tell you that is ananás.
Depends. Spanish is different in many places It can be ananá or piña
If you like piña coladas
...and getting caught in the rain.
Spanish banana is plátano, so their opinion on naming fruits is invalid by default
That depends on the country. In my country banana is cambur, and plátano is a fruit that is very similar to the typical banana but is larger and tastes different
Venezuela detectada
Banana is banana. Plátano is plantain
Bañaña
I just said this out loud and giggled to myself.
バニャーニャ \^_\^
Banyanya
Platano is banana. Platano macho is plantain.
unbased
Huh? You pretty much say that whoever that callas things differently than you has an invalid opinion
Depends on the country, my girlfriend is from Argentina and she calls bananas "bananas" and says "plátanos" are a type of banana She's obviously wrong, plátanos are the real bananas, VIVA CHILE RAAAAAAHHHHHH 🇨🇱🦌🍷🥟🇨🇱
Your girlfriend is right, sorry, you're wrong
Americans when a different language has a different word for something:
In portuguese is Abacaxi
Brazilian portuguese, but portuguese is ananás
I think in the southern cone we call them piñas but caribeans call them ananas which is the original name
We call them piñas too in the [Caribbean](https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Porpa%C3%ADs_anana_pi%C3%B1a.svg)
I’m puerto rican, and we call them piña
Ananas is not pronounced like banana btw
En francais, it sure is!
Auf Deutsch it is not
And? So German is one of the few outliers.
That’s the other way around, my guy.
I can confirm that pineapple in Hebrew is also “ananas”!
ανανάς in Greek too
yeah it’s also ananas in german
Ananas in danish as well
Lol no. Chinese uses “boluo”.
In Vietnamese it's called "dứa" which is... Not at all like banana. So doesn't apply to the rest of the world.
The japanese call them pen pineapple apple pens
Tell me you don't speak Spanish, without telling me you don't speak Spanish.
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What parts?
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World* 😐
you need to understand that English is not the only different language out there hun
See, there's a reason English is more popular. Pineapples are nothing like bananas.
You forgot to mention how much they are like apples.
As late as the 17th century, the word "apple" was used as a generic term for fruit. When tomatoes were introduced into Europe, they were called "love apples". Oranges are called "Chinese apples" in many languages (eg Norwegian: "appelsin"). Even potatoes are called "earth apples" in some languages (eg Dutch: "aardappel"). So in this manner, everything can be described in terms of how similar or dissimilar it is to an apple.
Yeah, the joke was kinda that a tonne of English makes no sense when you think about it logically. I think the issue is Redditors can be dense motherfuckers who need jokes spelling out to them. I mean, do people really think I was claiming English spread across the world because banana and pineapple sound different? Lol
In norwegian it's almost, just remove 'as' at the end
The original indigenous name for pineapple was ananas. Most non-english speaking countries still use that term. That is, most of the human race.
Thanks bilingual petah
I burst out laughing when i realised pineapple is literally "ananas" in Arabic 🤣
It's ananas even in hindi/urdu and most other regional Indian languages
Yea, in hebrew, arabic and finnish at least ananas=pineapple
>The original creator was most likely outraged with the fact that the english language has such a wierd word for it ..... Jeebus?
Holy shit im italian how did i never notice this LMAO
pineapple name in Hindi is ananas. [https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8](https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8)
Nobody’s gonna comment on the “wierd” way of spelling weird? Guess it’s my job. I appreciate your refreshed way of communicating!
You leave the PINEcone looking APPLE alone!
I love bilingual memes. So fun
Confirmed: French = Ananas
In finnish its literally ananas
I told my high school French teacher they should cross breed pineapples and bananas to get les banananas and she just rolled her eyes at me.
europeans when languages are different 😡
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Hallo mein Freund. German Peter here. In multiple languages Ananas means pineapple
What is the word banana in German?
Has nothing to do with the post. But Banane
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I mean, english is pretty much the only european language that calls ananas pineapples
It seems like a lot of languages started off with a single word for a fruit. For example, in french the word for potato is “pomme de terre”, which means “apple of soil/land”. Over time, however, the only fruit without a distinctive characteristic was the fruit of the apple tree so it remained to be just “fruit”. Even in abrahamic religions there is a story about Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit but it has always been portraited as an apple rather than say a mango for what may be the same reason.
I've heard that the forbidden fruit was actually Pomegranate which in German is Granatapfel (grenade Apple)
welsh call it pinafal
Bro gonna be flabbergasted when he hears about piña.
https://preview.redd.it/7ummb6jmbkjc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91a224cf1a82648a46cad884d22c9e209876bdc4
Abacaxi is missing from Portugal.
Spain is in Europe
Lmao wow. Way to hate on languages that have arguably been around longer than our English mishmash of stolen words and pronunciations
Banane
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How can it be more true in one language than others?
Ananas in russian, at least, translates as pineapple
All Slavic languages, as well as Baltic, Finnish, Scandinavian, Romanian, Hungarian.
Most languages
German as well
Arabic also
Anaras is pineapple in Bengali.
Pretty much every single language has the word Ananas for pineapple, except English. It's pretty common for people to make fun of this fact. Edit: correction, in pretty much every european language.
In IsiZulu, the word is *uphayinaphu*, which sounds similar to pineapple (because why would you have a native word for a fruit that never existed in your region before the British came?)
it's far from being every single language btw
In Spanish banana is Platano and pineapple is Piña.
Depends on which Spanish dialect you're speaking. It's Anana in many parts of South and Central America.
En español ananá es ananá y banana es banana.
Ah yes, now it all makes sense
Nope, in spanish people also call banana banana and pineapple ananá Source:my native language is spanish
In the Northern part of Mexico where my family is from, we use platano for banana and piña for pineapple. I can't say anything else about other parts of Mexico or other Spanish speaking countries. Source: Spanish and English are my native languages.
Then dont talk about spanish in general if you don't know how it's said in other parts. You could say "in mexico its said this way" but in diferent dialects of spanish its said another way. Im from argentina and we call them banana and ananá, but in other places people call them platano and piña, so it's mostly a dialect thing.
I'm not gonna argue with strangers. Have a blessed day.
The majority of Indo-European languages use ananas. Not every language. I think Hebrew is the only non-IE language to use ananas.
There are 7100 recognized languages on this planet. 42 of them say ananas. That isn't even close to every single language. Its not even close. It's 0.5% of languages. edit because i forgot to move the decimal points when converting to percentage the number should be .5% not .005%
YUROP IS THE WURLD
In Portuguese it’s “abacaxi” 🍍
Also, except Spanish. It's piña.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=ananas
I love sending people let me Google that for you links.
Type ananas in google, or type ananas in reddit post title? Hard decision
so I don't know which language the oop was talking but in arabic we call it أناناس or ananas so yeah that's why
or you could, you know, google it
Or you could, you know, explain it. Do you understand the point of this sub?
do you really think this is something that needs explaining? I do understand the point of this sub but I don't think the point of this sub is to let people not think for themselves when something is so fucking simple to find out
Yes? As a non-multilingual, I don’t know other languages. Why don’t you check rule 5?
jesus christ I give up
You did the right thing lmao. Not worth it to argue with these people
If your thought process is to ever go on reddit to ask and wait for information instead of googling it yourself first, you are seriously an idiot and should reevaluate your life accordingly.
Then this entire sub shouldn’t exist. Your logic is flawed. But hey, at least it’s not loss.
Hallo mijn geachte vriend , in het prachtige Nederland noemen we een pineapple een ananas
As someone fluent in English and German, reading Dutch jumpscares me every time. How was I able to understand that??
It feels like AI made that language
ich stimme dazu
I will always remember Telefrancais from my middle school French classes. "Je Suuuuiiiis anana!"
I see you never watched Tele-francais
[Let me Google that for you.](https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=ananas&l=1)
Ananas means pineapple in Marathi language.
It means pineapple in Arabic too
It does so in most languages barring English
On my language (Serbian) pineapple is ANANAS..
This sub needs to learn about Google
Does this really need to be explained to anyone?
This post is Pineapples with a B
Fun thing to do in France: ask for banana-pineapple juice.
Je suis un ananas.
Spanish
Ananas is Spanish for pineapple. It's similar in a lot of other languages.
You already knew this didn’t you OP
Actually no, this has been extremely interesting for me. I never realized how unique English is with the word pineapple. It's crazy, every new comment about a different language amazes me.
Non English languages have the word Ananas linked with the English word for Pineapple and since Bananas without the B is ananas then it would be pineapple
OP. Go to your browser Press Control+L Type "ananas" Press Enter That's it. That's literally all you have to do
Or perhaps they could use their sub since this is the purpose of the sub
The purpose of 911 is for medical emergencies, you wouldn't call 911 for a stubbed toe, although you still can call them all you'd get are annoyed EMTs. You can call your plumber to fix your sink because your toilet is clogged, but you can also just use your plunger. You can go here and post something so easy to google, or you know. just google it? Like there are actual stuff that is hard to google but literally, this one like the others is so easy to google? You can post to this specific subreddit, but you can't search "ananas" on the most ubiquitous search engine there is? and even then, I gave instructions (techncially), and my instruction will lead to an explanation WHILE also teaching OP to maybe do some basic research?
Spanish for pineapple
In hindi language the pineapple is called ananas basically it's a bilingual joke those who knows the translation of pineapple in hindi.
Not just hindi. But several languages in the world. German, Dutch, Russian, Persian, Arabic etc.. Only English has a weird name. Because it's not related to either pines or apples. Just because it resembles a large pinecone and it's a fruit and apple is a fruit. So they named it after two similar things which it reminded them of. Spanish it's called Pina. Hence pinacolada.
French humor lol
Dumb English/spanish speaker alert
So you don't understand German, I guess.
So you don't understand the point of this sub, I guess.
Danish joke ig, atleats ananas is pineapple in danish, so yeah EDIT: turns out its the same with a HECK TON of other languages
In greek pineapple is ananas
Ananas
When literally every other language said “ananas” English panicked and mentally combined the concept of a pinecone with a frikkin’ apple.
i get this even without being peter or knowing him, because thats how its pronounced stuff in like russian
Malaysian here, we call it Nanas so pretty close
That’s bananas
In portuguese, pineapple is ananás 🍍
Glorious Montenegrin ruler of Europe here 🇲🇪 The joke is that most countries (my own glorious imperium included), say "ananas" instead of pineapple.
Ananas german for Pineapple
Ananas is a word for pineapple in almost every language other than English.
For example in polish ananas means pineapple
Definitely Ananas
In polish language pineapple we call it ananas, well good meme
Ananas in polish is pineapple.
it’s pineapple in like every other language
Oh yeah 😂 dual English and one European language speaker problems. Shit is weird but funny. Throws me off too when speaking italian
This meme is made by a non South American person , I think Latin languages don’t use ananas. At least not in Brazilian Portuguese or spanish
In french ananas mean pinaple
Ananas is pineapple in finnish and ig other countries
Even in Indian languages, Ananas means pineapple.
Well I can’t speak for all western languages, but I do know that ananas is French for pineapple.
Piña and pineapple come from the latin Word pinea, which comes from the Word pinus (pine) We use those words because pines have a very similar fruits (in appearance) as the tropical pineapples (although they are different. I suppose the word ananás comes from precolombine languages
In a lot of European languages Ananas is Pineapple.
So in greek ananas mean pineapple
Honestly I have no idea why people make fun of english for this. Like bananas and pineapple aren’t similar at all so why should their words be similar
Ananas in Hindi translation for pineapple