ananas

From Italian ananas, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, adapted from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ənāʹnəs, ənäʹnəs; IPA^(key): /əˈneɪnəs/, /əˈnɑːnəs/

ananas (plural ananases or ananasses)

1. (rare) Pineapple.
   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

     Witness, thou best Anana, thou the Pride / Of vegetable Life […] .

   • 1789 December 30, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:

     The Apple Tree delights evry Eye, while the Anana gives no Notice of its future excellence.

2. (rare) Bromelia pinguin, a plant with edible fruit.

• anana

• “Ananas” listed on page 306 of volume I (A–B) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1885]
    Ananas (ănēⁱ·năs, -ā·năs). Also anana. [So in most of the languages of Europe; app. from a native Peruvian name Nanas, it having been first seen by Europeans in Peru, and described under the name Nanas by André Thevenet, a monk, in 1555. Through mistaking the final -s for a plural sign, some have made the sing. anana.] [¶] 1. The pine-apple plant (Ananassa sativa) or fruit. [¶] 1613 Purchas Pilgr. I. v. xii. 431 Of their fruits Ananas is reckoned one of the best: In taste like an Apricocke, in shew a farre off like an Artichoke, but without prickles, very sweet of sent. 1714 Mandeville Fab. Bees (1733) II. 219 The first ananas, or pine-apple, that was brought to perfection in England, grew in his [Sir M. Decker’s] garden at Richmond. 1727 Thomson Summer 685 Witness, thou best anâna, thou the pride Of vegetable Life. 1811 T. Baldwin (title) Short Practical Directions for the Culture of the Ananas, or Pine-apple Tree. 1841 D’Israeli Amen. Lit. II. 229 [Rawleigh] had given..England the Virginian tobacco, and perhaps the delicious ananas. [¶] 2. An allied West Indian fruit, the Penguin (Bromelia Pinguin). J.
• “ananas” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Borrowed from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná.

• IPA^(key): [ˈananas]

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ananas m inan (relational adjective ananasový)

1. pineapple

• “ananas”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “ananas”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “ananas”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás (“pineapple”), from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈananas/, [ˈananas]

ananas c (singular definite ananassen, plural indefinite ananas or ananasser)

1. pineapple (fruit, plant)

• → Faroese: ananas
• → Greenlandic: ananassi
• → Icelandic: ananas

• “ananas” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ananas” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
• ananas on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• annanas (obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish ananás or Portuguese ananás, ultimately from Old Tupi naná.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.nɑ.nɑs/

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• Hyphenation: ana‧nas

ananas f or m (plural ananassen, diminutive ananasje n)

1. pineapple
2. pineapple plant, plant of the genus Ananassa

• ananasaardbei
• ananasplant

• Berbice Creole Dutch: nanasi
• Negerhollands: anas
• → Caribbean Hindustani: ajanás
• → Lokono: nana
• → Malay: nanas, nenas (nonstandard)
  • Indonesian: nanas
  • → Iban: nanas
  • → Maguindanao: nanas
• → Sranan Tongo: n'nasi
  • → Kari'na: nana
• → West Frisian: ananas

Borrowed from Danish ananas, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás (“pineapple”), from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

ananas n (genitive singular ananas, plural ananas)

1. pineapple (fruit, plant)

• "ananas" at Sprotin.fo

From French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnɑnɑs/, [ˈɑ̝nɑ̝nɑ̝s̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑnɑs
• Syllabification^(key): a‧na‧nas
• Hyphenation^(key): ana‧nas

ananas

1. pineapple (plant and fruit)

• “ananas”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• ansaan, ansana, sanaan, sanana

Introduced into French from settlers visiting the Indies; from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• IPA^(key): /a.na.nas/, /a.na.na/ ~ /a.na.nɑ/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [zɑ̃nɑ̃na]
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧nas

ananas m (plural ananas)

1. pineapple

• Burmese: နာနတ် (nanat)
• Saint Dominican Creole French: z'anana
• → Danish: ananas
  • → Faroese: ananas
  • → Greenlandic: ananassi
  • → Icelandic: ananas
• → Esperanto: ananaso
• Turkish: ananas

• “ananas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Danish ananas, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás (“pineapple”), from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːna(ː)nas/

ananas m (genitive singular ananass, nominative plural ananasar)

1. pineapple

   Synonym: granaldin

• sveigblöðkuætt (“the pineapple family”)

Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.na.nas/, (rare) /a.naˈnas/
• Rhymes: -ananas, (rare) -as
• Hyphenation: à‧na‧nas, (rare) a‧na‧nàs

ananas m (invariable)

1. pineapple

• annasa

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from Polish ananas or German Ananas, ultimately from Old Tupi naná.

• IPA^(key): /aˈna.nas/
• Rhymes: -anas
• Syllabification: a‧na‧nas

ananas m inan (related adjective ananasowi)

1. pineapple (plant)
2. pineapple (fruit)

• Stefan Ramułt (1993) [1893] “ananas”, in Jerzy Trepczyk, editor, Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), 3 edition
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “ananas”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “ananas”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “ananas”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

• ananāsa
• ananassa
• ananas, -atis

Borrowed from Spanish ananás from Portuguese ananás or borrowed directly from Portuguese, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

ananās f (indeclinable)
ananās m (genitive ananae); first declension

1. (botany, New Latin) pineapple
   • 1582, Christophori a Costa Aromatum & medicamentorum in Orientali India nascentium liber, Antverpia, page 70–71:

     De Ananas. [...] Eius radix carduo eduli perquam similis est, sed & folia non sunt disparia, tametsi ad Ananas siluestris folia magis acedant. [...] De Ananas siluestri. Ananas siluestris descriptio. Altius assurgit qui Ananas siluestris nuncupatur: [...]
     [Note: Here the word is indeclinable (in the singular).]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1651, Ioh. (= Joannes) Bauhinus and Ioh. Hen. (= Joannes Henricus) Cherlerus, Uniuersalis Plantarum Historiae = Historia plantarum uniuersalis, noua, et absolutissima, cum consensu et dissensu circa eas. Tomus III, Ebrodunum, page 95–96 (the book has pictures):

     Acosta Ananas historiam nunc adscribamus. [...] Ananas fructus est [...] Ananas siluestris, folio aloes fructu Cupressino. [picture] Altius alsurgit qui Ananas siluestris nuncupatur:

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1704, Joannes Raius, Historiae Plantarum tomus tertius, London, section 665, pages 638–639:

     Ad Cap. De Ananas. 1. Ananas sylv. non spinosa [...] 2. Ananas sylvestris Brasiliana [...] Ananas vulgaris habet spinas ad margines foliorum omnes sursum tendentes. [..] 3. Ananas Americana sylvestris altera minor, nostratibus Barbados & Jamaicae insularum colonis Pinguin dicta Pluk. Almag. Botan. T. 258. F. 4. [...]
     [...] cum Anana sylvstri Acosta
     [Note: Here the word is feminine and both indeclinable (in the singular) and of the first declension.]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1732, Johannes Jacobus Dillenius, Plantarum rariorum horti elthamensis tomus alter, which followed Hortus elthamensis seu Plantarum rariorum (London, 1732), page 320–321 (the book has pictures):

     Pinguin nomine passim in Hortis Curiosorum & in Insulis Anglorum Americanis nota est haec planta, quae folia, modum nascendi & faciem cum Anana communem habet [...] Porro corona foliosa, quam Ananas gerit, huic generi deest: foliorum aculei rigidiores sunt, majores & minus, ac in Anana, crebri. [...] E mediis foliis scapus exit crassus, unciali & sesquiunciali diametro praeditus, teres, brevior & robustior, quam Ananae, minus etiam nudus, dictis foliis rubentibus, ad basim squamatim eum amplectenibus, cinctus, e quo dein superiora versus aliae squamae breviores, latae, membranaceae, exsuccae, obsolete albidae progrediuntur, & ex harum sinu flores & embryones in spicam pyramidatam digesti nascuntur, pediculo communi crasso brevi insidentes, inferius plures, tres, quatuor & quinque, superius pauciores, gemini & tandem solitarii. [...] De eo mihi constat, esse plantam, quae vocatur Ananas Americana sylvestris altera minor, Barbados & Insulae Jamaicae nostratibus colonis Pinguin dicta Pluken. Alm. p. 29. Tab. 258. f. 4. quae figura ad juniorem plantam minore quantitate facta est sine floribus, nec aliam ejus vel cum, vel fine floribus iconem prostare memini.
     [Note: Here the word is of the first declension.]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• The feminine gender could belong to the indeclinable noun ananas only.
  Latin first declension nouns ending in -ās (genitive -ae) usually are borrowed from Ancient Greek and are masculine in Latin and Ancient Greek (compare Appendix:Ancient Greek first declension). By analogy the declinable noun ananas could be masculine too (like translingual Ananas m, Modern Greek ανανάς m (ananás), French ananas m, Italian ananas m, Portuguese ananás m, Spanish ananás m).

• Indeclinable or first declension Greek. When declinable:

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās).

Borrowed from Spanish ananás from Portuguese ananás or borrowed directly from Portuguese, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• IPA^(key): /ananas/
• Rhymes: -ɑs

ananas m (definite singular ananasen, indefinite plural ananaser, definite plural ananasene)

1. a pineapple (plant, fruit)

• “ananas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Spanish ananás from Portuguese ananás or borrowed directly from Portuguese, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnːɑnɑs/
• Rhymes: -ɑs

ananas m (definite singular ananasen, indefinite plural ananasar, definite plural ananasane)

1. a pineapple (plant, fruit)

• “ananas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Internationalism; compare French ananas, German Ananas, Russian анана́с (ananás), ultimately from Old Tupi naná. First attested in 1740.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /aˈna.nas/

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• Rhymes: -anas
• Syllabification: a‧na‧nas

ananas m inan (related adjective ananasowy)

2. pineapple (any plant of the genus Ananas)

ananas m inan or m animal (related adjective ananasowy)

2. pineapple (fruit of this plant)

   świeży ananas ― fresh pineapple

   plaster ananasa ― pineapple slice

   puszka ananasów ― can of pineapples

   krążki ananasa ― pineapple rings

   kawałki ananasa ― pineapple pieces

   pokroić ananasa ― to slice a pineapple

   jeść ananasa ― to eat pineapple

ananas m pers

1. imp, urchin (person who acts inappropriately) [from 20th c.]^[2]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urwis

   • 2002, Mariusz Ziomecki, Lato nieśmiertelnych‎^[3]:

     Nie czułem jeszcze zmęczenia, więc postanowiliśmy wpaść na trochę do Acorn Creative Management i omówić mój materiał. Na farmę do Bernarda zjedziemy akurat na wieczorny obiad. – Niezłe ananasy tam pracowały.

     The tiredness hadn't hit me yet, so we decided to stop by for a bit at Acorn Creative Management and discuss my material. We're going to go down to Bernard's farm for an evening supper. – Some real devils worked there.

• ananas in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ananas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• ananas in PWN's encyclopedia
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ananas”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ananas”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “ananas”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 34

Borrowed from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”). First attested in 1796.

• IPA^(key): /a.na.ˈnas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧nas

ananas m (plural ananași)

1. pineapple (plant, fruit)

• “ananas”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ânanas/
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧nas

ȁnanas m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̏нанас)

1. pineapple

• “ananas”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /áːnanas/

ȃnanas m inan

1. pineapple

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	ánanas
gen. sing.	ánanasa
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ánanas	ánanasa	ánanasi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ánanasa	ánanasov	ánanasov
dative (dajȃlnik)	ánanasu	ánanasoma	ánanasom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ánanas	ánanasa	ánanase
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ánanasu	ánanasih	ánanasih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ánanasom	ánanasoma	ánanasi

• “ananas”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

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ananas c

1. pineapple

Borrowed from German Ananas, from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈanaˌnas/

ananas

1. pineapple(s)

• painap

From Ottoman Turkish آناناس, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ.nɑˈnɑs/

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ananas (definite accusative ananası, plural ananaslar)

1. pineapple

Borrowed from Dutch ananas, from Spanish ananás.

• IPA^(key): /ˈanənas/

ananas c (plural ananassen, diminutive ananaske)

1. pineapple

• “ananas”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011