Burkina Faso

English

Location of Burkina Faso

Wikipedia

Etymology

More burkina (“honest”) + Dyula faso (“father's house”), coined by Thomas Sankara.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bəː(r)ˈkːinə ˈfɑsoʊ/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. A country in Western Africa (formerly Upper Volta). Official name: Burkina Faso.

Translations

country

• Arabic: بوركينا فاسو (ar) (burkinaa faasu) f
• Armenian: Բուրկինա Ֆասո (hy) (Burkina Faso)
• Basque: Burkina Faso (eu)
• Bengali: বুর্কিনা ফাসো (bn)
• Breton: Burkina Faso (br)
• Bulgarian: Буркина Фасо (bg) (Burkina Faso)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布基納法索 (cmn), 布基纳法索 (cmn) (Bùjǐnà Fǎsuǒ)

• Czech: Burkina Faso (cs) n
• Danish: Burkina Faso (da)
• Dutch: Burkina Faso (nl)
• Esperanto: Burkino (eo)
• Finnish: Burkina Faso (fi)
• French: Burkina Faso (fr) m
• German: Burkina Faso (de) n
• Greek: Μπουρκίνα Φάσο (el) (Bourkína Fáso) f
• Hebrew: בורקינה פאסו (he)
• Hindi: बुर्किना फ़ासो (hi) (burkinā fāsō)
• Hungarian: Burkina Faso (hu)
• Interlingua: Burkina Faso (ia)
• Irish: Buircíne Fasó (ga) m
• Italian: Burkina Faso (it)
• Japanese: ブルキナファソ (ja) (Burukina-faso)

• Kalenjin: Bukinafaso
• Khmer: បួគីណាហ្វាសូ (km) (bour ki na fa so)
• Kikuyu: Bukinafaso
• Korean: 부르키나파소 (ko) (Bureukinapaso), (North Korea) 부르끼나파쏘 (ko) (Bureukkinapasso)
• Low German: Burkina Faso
• Luhya: Bukinafaso
• Luo: Bukinafaso
• Macedonian: Буркина Фасо (mk) (Burkína Fáso) f
• Maltese: il-Burkina Faso (mt)
• Meru: Bukinafaso
• Norwegian: Burkina Faso (no)
• Polish: Burkina Faso (pl) f
• Portuguese: Burquina Faso (pt)
• Romanian: Burkina Faso (ro)
• Russian: Буркина-Фасо (ru) (Burkinà-Fasó) n (indeclinable)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Буркина Фасо (sh) f

  Roman: Burkina Faso (sh) f

• Sicilian: Burchina Fasu (scn) m
• Spanish: Burkina Faso (es)
• Swahili: Bukinafaso (sw)
• Swedish: Burkina Faso (sv)
• Turkish: Burkina Faso (tr)

See also

• Voltaic (relative adjective)
• Ouagadougou (capital)
• Countries of the world

External links

• Burkina Faso Wikipedia (French only)

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

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Basque

Wikipedia ^eu

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

Declension

"Burkina Faso" animate proper noun indefinite absolutive Burkina Faso ergative Burkina Fasok dative Burkina Fasori genitive Burkina Fasoren comitative Burkina Fasorekin causative Burkina Fasorentzat benefactive Burkina Fasorengatik instrumental Burkina Fasoz inessive Burkina Fason locative Burkina Fasoko allative Burkina Fasora terminative Burkina Fasoraino directive Burkina Fasorantz destinative Burkina Fasorako ablative Burkina Fasotik partitive Burkina Fasorik prolative Burkina Fasotzat

Related terms

• burkina fasoar

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Czech

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso n

1. Burkina Faso

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Danish

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

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Dutch

Proper noun

Burkina Faso n

1. Burkina Faso

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Faroese

Etymology

From More burkina (“honest”) + Dyula faso (“father's house”), coined by Thomas Sankara.

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Bur·ki·na Fa·so
• IPA: /ˈburkinɑ ˈfɑso/

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

Declension

Declension of Burkina Faso (type valo) singular plural nominative Burkina Faso – genitive Burkina Fason – partitive Burkina Fasoa – accusative Burkina Faso Burkina Fason – inessive Burkina Fasossa – elative Burkina Fasosta – illative Burkina Fasoon – adessive Burkina Fasolla – ablative Burkina Fasolta – allative Burkina Fasolle – essive Burkina Fasona – translative Burkina Fasoksi – instructive – – abessive Burkina Fasotta – comitative – –

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French

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso m

1. Burkina Faso

Derived terms

• Burkinabé
• burkinabé

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Proper noun

Burkina Faso n

1. Burkina Faso

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Hungarian

Wikipedia ^hu

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Burkina Faso m

1. Burkina Faso

Related terms

• burkinabè

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

Related terms

• burkiner
• burkinsk

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Polish

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso f (indeclinable)

1. Burkina Faso

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Romanian

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Burkina Faso f (Cyrillic spelling Буркина Фасо)

1. Burkina Faso

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

Related terms

• burkinés, burkinesa

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Swedish

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso

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Turkish

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso