Ghanaian

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Ghana

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin -ānus

Latin -iānusbor.

English -ian

English Ghanaian

From Ghana + -ian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Received Pronunciation) /ɡɑːˈneɪ.ən/, /ˈɡɑ.ni.ən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): (General American) /ˈɡɑ.ni.ən/
• Rhymes: -eɪən, -ɑːniən

Adjective

Ghanaian (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Ghana or the Ghanaian people.
   • 2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 6:

     She had a little southern accent that tinted her Ghanaian one.

Derived terms

• Ghanaianism
• Ghanaianness

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Ghana or the Ghanaian people

• Afrikaans: Ghanees
• Asturian: ghanianu (ast)
• Catalan: ghanès (ca)
• Czech: ghanský (cs)
• Danish: ghanesisk
• Dutch: Ghanees (nl)
• Finnish: ghanalainen (fi)
• French: ghanéen (fr)
• Galician: ghanés
• German: ghanaisch (de)
• Greek: γκανέζικος m (gkanézikos), γκανέζικη f (gkanéziki), γκανέζικο n (gkanéziko)
• Hungarian: ghánai (hu)
• Icelandic: ganverskur (is)
• Italian: ghanese
• Macedonian: гански (ganski)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ghanesisk

  Nynorsk: ghanesisk (nn)

• Polish: ghański (pl)
• Portuguese: ganês (pt)
• Romanian: ghanez (ro)
• Russian: га́нский (ru) (gánskij)
• Spanish: ghanés (es)
• Swahili: Kighana
• Swedish: ghanansk (sv)
• Ukrainian: га́нський (hánsʹkyj)

Noun

Ghanaian (plural Ghanaians)

1. A person from Ghana or of Ghanaian descent.
   • 2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 264:

     The locals did this, waiting for tourists to disembark so that they could con them into paying for things Ghanaians knew were free.

Hypernyms

• sub-Saharan, African

Translations

person from Ghana or of Ghanaian descent

• Afrikaans: Ghanees
• Akan: Ghanani
• Armenian: գանացի (ganacʻi)
• Asturian: ghanianu (ast) m, ghaniana (ast) f
• Catalan: ghanès (ca)
• Czech: Ghaňan (cs) m
• Danish: ghaneser c
• Dutch: Ghanees (nl) m, Ghanese (nl) f
• Esperanto: ganaano m, ganaanino f
• Finnish: ghanalainen (fi)
• French: Ghanéen (fr), Ghanéenne (fr) f
• Galician: ghanés m
• German: Ghanaer (de) m, Ghanaerin (de) f
• Greek: Γκανέζος (el) m (Gkanézos), Γκανέζα (el) f (Gkanéza)
• Hungarian: ghánai (hu)
• Icelandic: Ganverji m, Ganverjar m pl
• Italian: ghanese c, ghanesi c pl
• Japanese: ガーナ人 (gāna-jin)
• Korean: 가나인 (ganain), 가나 사람 (gana saram)
• Macedonian: Ганец m (Ganec), Ганка f (Ganka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ghaneser m

  Nynorsk: ghanesar (nn) m

• Polish: Ghańczyk (pl) m, Ghanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ganês (pt) m
• Romanian: ghanez (ro) m, ghaneză (ro) f
• Russian: га́нец (ru) m (gánec)
• Spanish: ghanés (es)
• Swahili: Mghana (sw)
• Swedish: (male) ghanan (sv) c, (female) ghananska (sv) c
• Turkish: Ganalı (tr)
• Ukrainian: га́нець m (hánecʹ), га́нка f (hánka)