Guinea-Bissau

See also: Guinea Bissau

English

Guinea-Bissau

Etymology

From Guinea +‎ Bissau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡɪni bɪˈsaʊ/

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Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau

2. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea-Bissau.

   Hypernym: Subsahara

Derived terms

• Guinea-Bissauan

Related terms

• Bissau-Guinean

Descendants

• → Japanese: ギニアビサウ (Ginia-Bisau)

Translations

Republic of Guinea-Bissau

• Afrikaans: Guinee-Bissau
• Amharic: ጊኔ-ቢሳው ? (gine-bisaw)
• Arabic: غِينِيَّا بِيسَاو f (ḡiniyyā bisāw)
• Armenian: Գվինեա Բիսաու (Gvinea Bisau)
• Azerbaijani: Qvineya-Bisau (az)
• Belarusian: Гвіне́я-Біса́у f (Hvinjéja-Bisáu)
• Bengali: গিনি-বিসাউ (bn) (gini-biśau)
• Breton: Ginea-Bissau ?
• Bulgarian: Гвине́я-Биса́у f (Gvinéja-Bisáu)
• Burmese: ဂင်းနီဗစ်ဆော (gang:nibachcau:)
• Catalan: Guinea Bissau (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幾內亞比紹／几内亚比绍 (zh) (Jǐnèiyà Bǐshào) (Mainland China), 幾內亞比索／几内亚比索 (zh) (Jǐnèiyà Bǐsuǒ) (Taiwan)

• Czech: Guinea-Bissau (cs) f
• Danish: Guinea-Bissau (da) ?
• Dutch: Guinee-Bissau (nl) n
• Esperanto: Gvineo-Bisaŭo, Gvineo-Bisaŭa, Gvineo Bisaŭa
• Estonian: Guinea-Bissau (et)
• Farefare: Gine-Bisau
• Finnish: Guinea-Bissau (fi)
• French: Guinée-Bissao (fr) f, Guinée-Bissau (fr) f
• Georgian: გვინეა-ბისაუ (ka) (gvinea-bisau)
• German: Guinea-Bissau (de) n
• Greek: Γουινέα-Μπισσάου f (Gouinéa-Bissáou)
• Hausa: Gini Bisau
• Hebrew: גינאה ביסאו ? (gineh bisau)
• Hindi: गिनी-बिसाऊ (hi) m (ginī-bisāū)
• Hungarian: Bissau-Guinea (hu)
• Interlingua: Guinea-Bissau
• Italian: Guinea Bissau ?
• Japanese: ギニアビサウ (ja) (Ginia Bisau)
• Kazakh: Гвинея-Бисау (kk) (Gvineä-Bisau)
• Khmer: ហ្គីណេ-ប៊ីសា (giineebiisaa)
• Korean: 기니비사우 (ko) (Ginibisau) (South Korea), 기네–비싸우 (Gine–bissau) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Гвинея-Бисау (ky) (Gvineya-Bisau)
• Latvian: Gvineja-Bisava f
• Lithuanian: Bisau Gvinėja (lt) f
• Macedonian: Гвине́ја Биса́о f (Gvinéja Bisáo)
• Maltese: il-Gwinea Bissaw f
• Maori: Kini Pihō, Kini-Pīhau
• Navajo: Gíní Bisó
• Norman: Petite-Gùinaée f (Guernsey), Dginnée-Bissau f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Guinea-Bissau (no)

  Nynorsk: Guinea-Bissau (nn)

• Persian: گینه بیسائو (gine bisâ'u)
• Polish: Gwinea Bissau (pl) f
• Portuguese: Guiné-Bissau (pt) f
• Romanian: Guineea-Bissau (ro) f
• Russian: Гвине́я-Биса́у (ru) f (Gvinéja-Bisáu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гвине́ја Биса̏о f, Гвине́ја Биса̏у f

  Roman: Gvinéja Bisȁo f, Gvinéja Bisȁu (sh) f

• Spanish: Guinea-Bisáu (es) f
• Swahili: Ginebisau (sw) ?
• Swedish: Guinea-Bissau (sv) n
• Tajik: Гвинея Бисау (Gvineya Bisau)
• Thai: กินี-บิสเซา
• Turkish: Gine-Bissau (tr)
• Ukrainian: Гвіне́я-Біса́у (uk) f (Hvinéja-Bisáu)
• Uzbek: Gvineya-Bisau
• Vietnamese: Ghi-nê Bít-xao
• Yoruba: Gíní-Bìsaù

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau

1. Guinea-Bissau (a country in Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau

1. Guinea-Bissau (a country in Africa)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡviːnɛa bɪsau̯]
• IPA^(key): [ɡɪnɛa bɪsau̯]

Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau f (related adjective guinejsko-bissauský)

1. Guinea-Bissau (a country in West Africa; capital: Bissau)

Declension

Declension of Guinea-Bissau (sg-only feminine in -ea)

	singular
nominative	Guinea-Bissau
genitive	Guiney-Bissau, Guineje-Bissau
dative	Guineji-Bissau
accusative	Guineu-Bissau
vocative	Guineo-Bissau
locative	Guineji-Bissau
instrumental	Guineou-Bissau, Guinejí-Bissau

Further reading

• “Guinea-Bissau”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Finnish

Etymology

Guinea +‎ Bissau; calque of Portuguese Guiné-Bissau

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡineɑˌbisːɑu/, [ˈɡine̞ɑ̝ˌbis̠ːɑ̝u]

Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau

1. Guinea-Bissau (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Guinea-Bissau (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		Guinea-Bissau	—
genitive		Guinea-Bissaun	—
partitive		Guinea-Bissauta	—
illative		Guinea-Bissauhun	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Guinea-Bissau	—
accusative	nom.	Guinea-Bissau	—
	gen.	Guinea-Bissaun
genitive		Guinea-Bissaun	—
partitive		Guinea-Bissauta	—
inessive		Guinea-Bissaussa	—
elative		Guinea-Bissausta	—
illative		Guinea-Bissauhun	—
adessive		Guinea-Bissaulla	—
ablative		Guinea-Bissaulta	—
allative		Guinea-Bissaulle	—
essive		Guinea-Bissauna	—
translative		Guinea-Bissauksi	—
abessive		Guinea-Bissautta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Guinea-Bissau (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Guinea-Bissauni — accusative nom. Guinea-Bissauni — gen. Guinea-Bissauni genitive Guinea-Bissauni — partitive Guinea-Bissautani — inessive Guinea-Bissaussani — elative Guinea-Bissaustani — illative Guinea-Bissauhuni — adessive Guinea-Bissaullani — ablative Guinea-Bissaultani — allative Guinea-Bissaulleni — essive Guinea-Bissaunani — translative Guinea-Bissaukseni — abessive Guinea-Bissauttani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Guinea-Bissausi — accusative nom. Guinea-Bissausi — gen. Guinea-Bissausi genitive Guinea-Bissausi — partitive Guinea-Bissautasi — inessive Guinea-Bissaussasi — elative Guinea-Bissaustasi — illative Guinea-Bissauhusi — adessive Guinea-Bissaullasi — ablative Guinea-Bissaultasi — allative Guinea-Bissaullesi — essive Guinea-Bissaunasi — translative Guinea-Bissauksesi — abessive Guinea-Bissauttasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Guinea-Bissaumme — accusative nom. Guinea-Bissaumme — gen. Guinea-Bissaumme genitive Guinea-Bissaumme — partitive Guinea-Bissautamme — inessive Guinea-Bissaussamme — elative Guinea-Bissaustamme — illative Guinea-Bissauhumme — adessive Guinea-Bissaullamme — ablative Guinea-Bissaultamme — allative Guinea-Bissaullemme — essive Guinea-Bissaunamme — translative Guinea-Bissauksemme — abessive Guinea-Bissauttamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Guinea-Bissaunne — accusative nom. Guinea-Bissaunne — gen. Guinea-Bissaunne genitive Guinea-Bissaunne — partitive Guinea-Bissautanne — inessive Guinea-Bissaussanne — elative Guinea-Bissaustanne — illative Guinea-Bissauhunne — adessive Guinea-Bissaullanne — ablative Guinea-Bissaultanne — allative Guinea-Bissaullenne — essive Guinea-Bissaunanne — translative Guinea-Bissauksenne — abessive Guinea-Bissauttanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Guinea-Bissaunsa — accusative nom. Guinea-Bissaunsa — gen. Guinea-Bissaunsa genitive Guinea-Bissaunsa — partitive Guinea-Bissautaan Guinea-Bissautansa — inessive Guinea-Bissaussaan Guinea-Bissaussansa — elative Guinea-Bissaustaan Guinea-Bissaustansa — illative Guinea-Bissauhunsa — adessive Guinea-Bissaullaan Guinea-Bissaullansa — ablative Guinea-Bissaultaan Guinea-Bissaultansa — allative Guinea-Bissaulleen Guinea-Bissaullensa — essive Guinea-Bissaunaan Guinea-Bissaunansa — translative Guinea-Bissaukseen Guinea-Bissauksensa — abessive Guinea-Bissauttaan Guinea-Bissauttansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• guineabissaulainen

 

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau n (proper noun, genitive Guinea-Bissaus or (optionally with an article) Guinea-Bissau)

1. Guinea-Bissau (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• Guinea-Bissauer
• guinea-bissauisch

See also

• (countries of Africa) Staaten Afrikas; Ägypten, Algerien, Angola, Äquatorialguinea, Äthiopien, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Dschibuti, Elfenbeinküste, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gabun, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kamerun, Kap Verde, Kenia, Komoren, Demokratische Republik Kongo, Republik Kongo, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyen, Madagaskar, Malawi, Mali, Marokko, Mauretanien, Mauritius, Mosambik, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Ruanda, Sambia, São Tomé und Príncipe, Senegal, Seychellen, Sierra Leone, Simbabwe, Somalia, Südafrika, Sudan, Südsudan, Tansania, Togo, Tschad, Tunesien, Uganda, Zentralafrikanische Republik ^{(Category: de:Countries in Africa)}

Italian

Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau f

1. Guinea-Bissau (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• Guinea
• guineano

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau

1. Guinea-Bissau (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• bissauguineaner
• bissauguineansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau

1. Guinea-Bissau (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• bissauguineanar
• bissauguineansk

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Guinea-Bissau n (genitive Guinea-Bissaus)

1. Guinea-Bissau (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• bissauguinean
• bissauguineansk
• bissauguineanska

References

• Guinea-Bissau in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH