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Re:Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning ... by NAG3LT on Sunday September 19, 2021 @01:29PM (#28586145)
Wow, somehow never thought that the device is named after the fruit. Their names can be even closer in other languages, f.e. in Russian they are nearly the same word, just different genders.
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Re:Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning ... by ficklepickle on Sunday September 19, 2021 @03:27PM (#28587140)
Pomegranates are from Granada. In French, Granada is "Grenade" and pomegranate is "pomme grenade", which directly translates to Granada apple
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Re:Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning ... by Telemakhos on Sunday September 19, 2021 @06:01PM (#28588352)
No. "Pomegranate" comes from the Latin "pomum granatum," the 'fruit having many seeds.' Granum means grain or seed, and granatus is a pseudo-participial form (like "mentulatus") meaning 'endowed with seeds.' Granada, the city, likely derives its name from Arabic.
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Re:Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning ... by jcelerier on Sunday September 19, 2021 @04:47PM (#28587792)
as a french I absolutely never heard "pomme grenade" for the fruit, just "grenade" directly
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Re:Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning ... by shados on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:43PM (#28589622)
may depend where you're from. I'm a French speaker and it's always been "pomme grenade" everywhere I have been.
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Re:Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning ... by garaetjjte on Sunday September 19, 2021 @04:50PM (#28587813)
In Polish it is literally the same word, "granat", which does function as weapon, fruit, and color (oddly enough, dark blue).
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Re:Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning ... by jwhitlark on Sunday September 19, 2021 @02:42PM (#28586777)
Then they doubled down with pineapple grenades...
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