anaconda

See also: Anaconda

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From New Latin anacandaia (“python”) [originally referring to a species of constrictor found in Sri Lanka, from Sinhalese හෙනකඳයා (henakaⁿdayā, “whip snake”), from හෙන (hena, “lightning, thunderbolt”) කඳ (kaⁿda, “stem, trunk, body”) or from Tamil ஆனைக்கொன்றான் (āṉaikkoṉṟāṉ, “having killed an elephant”), from ஆனை (āṉai, “elephant”) கொன்றான் (koṉṟāṉ, “having killed”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /ˌænəˈkɒndə/

Noun

A green anaconda (Eunectes murinus)

anaconda (plural anacondas)

1. Any of various large nonvenomous snakes of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. [from 19th c.]
2. (in particular) The green anaconda; Eunectes murinus.
3. (by extension, slang, vulgar) A large penis.
   • 1992, Sir Mix-a-Lot, "Baby Got Back", Mack Daddy:

     My anaconda don't want none / Unless you got buns, hon

   • 2000, Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game‎^[1], Signet, published 2002, →ISBN:

     Womack went into the bedroom and checked on his two boys. When I headed to the bathroom to drain my anaconda, I caught a profile of him standing in the doorway, smiling down on the little rascals.

   • 2006, Christopher Darrick Odom, Visa Versa: Black Men Suffer in the Dating Game Too!‎^[2], iUniverse, →ISBN, page xi:

     I have chased after white women to find they only wanted to dance with my anaconda and weren't interested in me as a partner.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anaconda.

Synonyms

• (penis): see also Thesaurus:macropenis.

Derived terms

• anaconda mortgage

Translations

any of various large nonvenomous snake of the genus Eunectes

• Arabic: أَنَاكُنْدَة f (ʔanakonda)
• Belarusian: анако́нда f (anakónda)
• Borôro: jure
• Bulgarian: анако́нда (bg) f (anakónda)
• Catalan: anaconda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大水蟒 (dàshuǐmǎng), 森蚺 (zh) (sēnrán)

• Czech: anakonda (cs) f
• Danish: anakonda c
• Dutch: anaconda (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: anakondo
• Finnish: anakonda (fi)
• French: anaconda (fr) m
• German: Anakonda (de) f
• Greek: ανακόντα (el) f (anakónta)
• Ido: anakondo (io)
• Irish: anacanda m
• Italian: anaconda (it) f
• Japanese: アナコンダ (ja) (anakonda)
• Korean: 아나콘다 (ko) (anakonda)
• Marathi: आणणे and कोंडणे f (āṇṇe and koṇḍṇe)
• Persian: آناکوندا (ânâkondâ)
• Polish: anakonda (pl) f
• Portuguese: sucuri (pt) f, anaconda (pt) f
• Romanian: anaconda (ro) f
• Russian: анако́нда (ru) f (anakónda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анаконда f

  Roman: anakonda (sh) f

• Spanish: anaconda (es)
• Sranan Tongo: aboma
• Swedish: anakonda (sv) c
• Tagalog: anakonda
• Thai: อนาคอนดา (à-naa-kɔn-dâa)
• Turkish: anakonda (tr)
• Ukrainian: анако́нда f (anakónda)
• Welsh: neidr (cy) f

Proper noun

anaconda

1. (card games) A particular variety of stud poker.

Synonyms

• (card game): pass the trash

References

• “anaconda”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “anaconda”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “anaconda” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Further reading

• Richard Boyle (2008 July 27) ““The Anaconda of Ceylon”: Derivations and the myths”, in The Sunday Times, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Wijeya Newspapers Ltd., retrieved 18 July 2018, Sunday Times Plus

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.nəˈkon.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.naˈkon.da]

Noun

anaconda f (plural anacondes)

1. anaconda

Further reading

• “anaconda” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “anaconda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “anaconda” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English anaconda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.naːˈkɔn.daː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ana‧con‧da

Noun

anaconda f or m (plural anaconda's)

1. anaconda, constrictor of the genus Eunectes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.na.kɔ̃.da/

• Audio:

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Noun

anaconda m (plural anacondas)

1. anaconda

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.naˈkon.da/
• Rhymes: -onda
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧cón‧da

Noun

anaconda f (plural anaconde)

1. (snake) anaconda

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English anaconda.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.naˈkõ.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.naˈkõ.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.naˈkõ.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.nɐˈkõ.dɐ/

• Hyphenation: a‧na‧con‧da

Noun

anaconda f (plural anacondas)

1. Synonym of sucuri

Further reading

• “anaconda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French anaconda.

Noun

anaconda f (plural anaconde)

1. anaconda

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	anaconda	anacondaua		anaconde	anacondele
genitive-dative	anaconde	anacondei		anaconde	anacondelor
vocative	—			—

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English anaconda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anaˈkonda/ [a.naˈkõn̪.d̪a]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -onda
• Syllabification: a‧na‧con‧da

Noun

anaconda f (plural anacondas)

1. anaconda
2. (by extension, slang, vulgar) a large penis

Further reading

• “anaconda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28