Baku

See also: baku, Bakú, and Bakü

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Баку́ (Bakú), from Azerbaijani Bakı, possibly from Persian بادکوبه‎ (bâd-kube, “wind-pounded”), compound of باد‎ (bâd) + کوب‎ (kub) + ـه‎ (-e).

Proper noun

Baku

1. The capital city of Azerbaijan.

Translations

the capital of Azerbaijan

• Amharic: ባኩ (baku)
• Arabic: بَاكُو‎‎ m (bakū)
• Aragonese: Bacú
• Armenian: Բաքու (Bakʿu)
• Asturian: Bakú
• Avar: Баку (Baku)
• Azerbaijani: Bakı (az), Бакы
• Basque: Baku (eu)
• Belarusian: Баку m (Baku)
• Breton: Bakou
• Bulgarian: Баку (Baku)
• Catalan: Bakú
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴庫 (zh), 巴库 (zh) (Bākù)

• Crimean Tatar: Baqu
• Czech: Baku (cs)
• Danish: Baku
• Dutch: Bakoe (nl)
• Esperanto: Bakuo (eo)
• Estonian: Bakuu (et)
• Faroese: Baku n
• Finnish: Baku (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Bakou
• French: Bakou (fr)
• Galician: Bakú (gl)
• Georgian: ბაქო (bako)
• German: Baku (de)
• Greek: Μπακού (el) (Bakoú)
• Haitian Creole: Bakou
• Hebrew: באקו‎‎ (Baqu)
• Hindi: बाकू (bākū)
• Hungarian: Baki (hu)
• Icelandic: Bakú f
• Ido: Baku
• Indonesian: Baku (id)
• Italian: Baku
• Japanese: バクー (ja) (Bakū)
• Kazakh: Бақы (Baqı)
• Korean: 바쿠 (ko) (Baku)

• Kyrgyz: Баку (Baku)
• Latin: Baku
• Lithuanian: Baku
• Macedonian: Баку n (Baku)
• Maltese: Baku
• Mongolian: Баку (Baku)
• Newari: बाकु (bāku)
• Norwegian: Baku
• Occitan: Bakó
• Persian: باکو‎‎ (bâku)
• Piedmontese: Baku
• Polish: Baku (pl) n
• Portuguese: Bacu (pt)
• Romanian: Baku (ro)
• Russian: Баку́ (ru) m (Bakú)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Баку m

  Roman: Baku (sh) m

• Sicilian: Baku
• Slovak: Baku (sk)
• Spanish: Bakú (es)
• Swahili: Baku
• Swedish: Baku (sv)
• Tajik: Боку (Boku)
• Talysh: Боку
• Tatar:

  Cyrillic: Бакы (Baqı)

  Roman: Baqı

• Thai: บากู (baagoo)
• Turkish: Bakü (tr)
• Turkmen: Baku
• Ukrainian: Баку (Baku)
• Urdu: باکو‎‎ (bākū)
• Uyghur: باكۇ‎‎ (baku)
• Uzbek: Baku
• Vietnamese: Baku
• Volapük: Bakı
• West Frisian: Bakoe
• Yiddish: באקו‎‎ (baku)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Baku f

1. Alternative form of Bacu

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎku/
• Hyphenation: Ba‧ku

Proper noun

Bàku m (Cyrillic spelling Ба̀ку)

1. Baku (capital of Azerbaijan)

References

• “Baku”, in Hrvatski jezični portal, 2006–2018