Burkina Faso

See also: Burkinafaso and Búrkína Fasó

English

Location of Burkina Faso

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bəɹˈkiːnə ˈfɑsoʊ/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso

2. A country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta. Official name: Burkina Faso.

Coordinate terms

• Burkinabe

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Burkina Faso
• Albanian: Burkina Faso (sq)
• Amharic: ቡርኪና ፋሶ (burkina faso)
• Arabic: بُورْكِينَا فَاسُو f (būrkīnā fāsū)
• Armenian: Բուրկինա Ֆասո (hy) (Burkina Faso)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܪ ܟܹܐܢܵܐ ܦ̮ܵܣܘܿ f (bar kēnā fāsō)
• Asturian: Burkina Fasu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Burkina-Faso (az)
• Basque: Burkina Faso
• Belarusian: Буркіна́-Фасо́ f (Burkiná-Fasó)
• Bengali: বুর্কিনা ফাসো (bn) (burkina phaśō)
• Breton: Burkina Faso
• Bulgarian: Буркина Фасо f (Burkina Faso)
• Burmese: ဘာကီးနားဖားဆို (bhaki:na:hpa:hcui)
• Catalan: Burkina Faso (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏋᎩᎾ ᏩᏐ (quvgina waso)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布基納法索 / 布基纳法索 (zh) (Bùjǐnà Fǎsuǒ)

• Czech: Burkina Faso (cs) n
• Danish: Burkina Faso (da)
• Dutch: Burkina Faso (nl)
• Esperanto: Burkino (eo)
• Estonian: Burkina Faso (et)
• Farefare: Burkĩna Faso
• Finnish: Burkina Faso (fi)
• French: Burkina Faso (fr) m
• Fula: 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮
• Georgian: ბურკინა ფასო (burḳina paso)
• German: Burkina Faso (de) n
• Greek: Μπουρκίνα Φάσο (el) f (Bourkína Fáso)
• Hausa: Burkina Faso
• Hebrew: בורקינה פאסו
• Hindi: बुर्किना फ़ासो (burkinā fāso)
• Hungarian: Burkina Faso (hu)
• Icelandic: Búrkína Fasó (is) n
• Interlingua: Burkina Faso
• Irish: Buircíne Fasó m
• Italian: Burkina Faso (it) m
• Japanese: ブルキナファソ (ja) (Burukinafaso)
• Kalenjin: Bukinafaso
• Kazakh: Буркина Фасо (Burkina Faso)
• Khmer: បួគីណាហ្វាសូ (buəkiinaafaasou)
• Kikuyu: Bukinafaso
• Korean: 부르키나파소 (ko) (Bureukinapaso), (North Korea) 부르끼나파쏘 (Bureukkinapasso)
• Kyrgyz: Буркина-Фасо (Burkina-Faso)
• Lithuanian: Burkina Fasas (lt) m
• Low German: Burkina Faso (nds)
• Luhya: Bukinafaso
• Luo: Bukinafaso
• Luxembourgish: Burkina Faso n
• Macedonian: Бурки́на Фасо (mk) f (Burkína Faso)
• Maltese: il-Burkina Faso
• Maori: Pūkina, Pūkina Whāho
• Meru: Bukinafaso
• Mongolian: Буркина Фасо (mn) (Burkina Faso)
• Moore: Burkina Faso
• Norman: Burkina Faso m
• Norwegian: Burkina Faso (no)
• Persian: بورکینافاسو (burkinâfâsu)
• Polish: Burkina Faso (pl) f
• Portuguese: Burquina Faso (pt)
• Romanian: Burkina Faso (ro)
• Russian: Буркина́-Фасо́ (ru) f (Burkiná-Fasó)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Буркѝна Фа̏со f

  Roman: Burkìna Fȁso (sh) f

• Sicilian: Burchina Fasu m
• Sinhalese: බර්කිනා ෆාසෝ (barkinā fāsō)
• Slovak: Burkina Faso n
• Slovene: Burkina Faso (sl) f
• Spanish: Burkina Faso (es)
• Swahili: Burkina Faso
• Swedish: Burkina Faso (sv)
• Tagalog: Burkina Paso
• Tajik: Буркина Фасо (Burkina Faso)
• Thai: บูร์กินาฟาโซ (th) (buu-gì-naa-faa-soo)
• Tigrinya: ቡርኪና ፋሶ (burkina faso)
• Turkish: Burkina Faso (tr)
• Ukrainian: Буркіна́-Фасо́ (uk) f (Burkiná-Fasó)
• Uyghur: بۇركىنا فاسو (burkina faso)
• Uzbek: Burkina Faso (uz)
• Vietnamese: Buốc-ki-na Pha-xô
• Yoruba: Bọ̀kínà Fasò

See also

• Voltaic (relative adjective)
• Ouagadougou (capital)
• Appendix: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]}

Further reading

• Burkina Faso on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta; capital: Ouagadougou)

Derived terms

• Burkinees
• Burkinies
• Burkiniër

Basque

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /burkina fas̺o/ [bur.ki.na fa.s̺o]
• Hyphenation: Bur‧ki‧na Fa‧so

Proper noun

Burkina Faso inan

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Declension

Declension of Burkina Faso (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite
absolutive	Burkina Faso
ergative	Burkina Fasok
dative	Burkina Fasori
genitive	Burkina Fasoren
comitative	Burkina Fasorekin
causative	Burkina Fasorengatik
benefactive	Burkina Fasorentzat
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

Derived terms

• burkinafasoar (“Burkinabe”)

 

Further reading

• “38.- Munduko estatuen izenak, herritarren izenak, hizkuntza ofizialak eta hiriburuak [Names of the states of the world, nationalities, official languages and capitals]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 2019

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [burˈki.nə ˈfa.zu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [burˈki.nə ˈfa.zo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [buɾˈki.na ˈfa.zo]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso ?

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Derived terms

• burkinès

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• (Amecameca): Burquina Faso

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Moore burkĩna (“honest”) + Dyula faso (“father's house”), coined by Thomas Sankara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [burkɪna faso]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso n (related adjective burkinafaský)

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Declension

Declension of Burkina Faso (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Burkina Faso
genitive	Burkina Fasa
dative	Burkina Fasu
accusative	Burkina Faso
vocative	Burkina Faso
locative	Burkina Fasu
instrumental	Burkina Fasem

Further reading

• “Burkina Faso”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /burˌki.naː ˈfaː.soː/, [burˌki.na ˈfa.soː]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso n

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Faroese

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈburkinɑ ˈfɑso/, [ˈburk̟inɑ̝ ˈfɑ̝s̠o̞]

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Declension

Inflection of Burkina Faso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		Burkina Faso	—
genitive		Burkina Fason	—
partitive		Burkina Fasoa	—
illative		Burkina Fasoon	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Burkina Faso	—
accusative	nom.	Burkina Faso	—
	gen.	Burkina Fason
genitive		Burkina Fason	—
partitive		Burkina Fasoa	—
inessive		Burkina Fasossa	—
elative		Burkina Fasosta	—
illative		Burkina Fasoon	—
adessive		Burkina Fasolla	—
ablative		Burkina Fasolta	—
allative		Burkina Fasolle	—
essive		Burkina Fasona	—
translative		Burkina Fasoksi	—
abessive		Burkina Fasotta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Burkina Faso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Burkina Fasoni — accusative nom. Burkina Fasoni — gen. Burkina Fasoni genitive Burkina Fasoni — partitive Burkina Fasoani — inessive Burkina Fasossani — elative Burkina Fasostani — illative Burkina Fasooni — adessive Burkina Fasollani — ablative Burkina Fasoltani — allative Burkina Fasolleni — essive Burkina Fasonani — translative Burkina Fasokseni — abessive Burkina Fasottani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Burkina Fasosi — accusative nom. Burkina Fasosi — gen. Burkina Fasosi genitive Burkina Fasosi — partitive Burkina Fasoasi — inessive Burkina Fasossasi — elative Burkina Fasostasi — illative Burkina Fasoosi — adessive Burkina Fasollasi — ablative Burkina Fasoltasi — allative Burkina Fasollesi — essive Burkina Fasonasi — translative Burkina Fasoksesi — abessive Burkina Fasottasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Burkina Fasomme — accusative nom. Burkina Fasomme — gen. Burkina Fasomme genitive Burkina Fasomme — partitive Burkina Fasoamme — inessive Burkina Fasossamme — elative Burkina Fasostamme — illative Burkina Fasoomme — adessive Burkina Fasollamme — ablative Burkina Fasoltamme — allative Burkina Fasollemme — essive Burkina Fasonamme — translative Burkina Fasoksemme — abessive Burkina Fasottamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Burkina Fasonne — accusative nom. Burkina Fasonne — gen. Burkina Fasonne genitive Burkina Fasonne — partitive Burkina Fasoanne — inessive Burkina Fasossanne — elative Burkina Fasostanne — illative Burkina Fasoonne — adessive Burkina Fasollanne — ablative Burkina Fasoltanne — allative Burkina Fasollenne — essive Burkina Fasonanne — translative Burkina Fasoksenne — abessive Burkina Fasottanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Burkina Fasonsa — accusative nom. Burkina Fasonsa — gen. Burkina Fasonsa genitive Burkina Fasonsa — partitive Burkina Fasoaan Burkina Fasoansa — inessive Burkina Fasossaan Burkina Fasossansa — elative Burkina Fasostaan Burkina Fasostansa — illative Burkina Fasoonsa — adessive Burkina Fasollaan Burkina Fasollansa — ablative Burkina Fasoltaan Burkina Fasoltansa — allative Burkina Fasolleen Burkina Fasollensa — essive Burkina Fasonaan Burkina Fasonansa — translative Burkina Fasokseen Burkina Fasoksensa — abessive Burkina Fasottaan Burkina Fasottansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• burkinafasolainen
• burkinalainen

 

See also

• (countries of Africa) Afrikan maat; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Djibouti, Egypti, Eritrea, Etelä-Afrikka, Etelä-Sudan, Etiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kap Verde, Kamerun, Kenia, Keski-Afrikan tasavalta, Komorit, Kongon demokraattinen tasavalta, Kongon tasavalta, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Länsi-Sahara, Madagaskar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Marokko, Mosambik, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Norsunluurannikko, Päiväntasaajan Guinea, Réunion, Ruanda, Saint Helena, São Tomé ja Príncipe, Senegal, Seychellit, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sambia, Sudan, Swazimaa, Tansania, Togo, Tšad, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: fi:Countries) [edit]}

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buʁ.ki.na fa.so/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso m

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Derived terms

• Burkinabé
• burkinabé

Descendants

• → Japanese: ブルキナファソ (Burukina Faso)

Fula

Alternative forms

• 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮

Etymology

From French Burkina Faso.

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso n (proper noun, genitive Burkina Fasos or (optionally with an article) Burkina Faso)

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Declension

Declension of Burkina Faso [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Burkina Faso
genitive	des	Burkina Fasos, Burkina Faso1
dative	dem	Burkina Faso
accusative	das	Burkina Faso

¹Optionally with an article.

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)}

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈburkinɒfɒzoː]
• Rhymes: -zoː

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Burkina Faso	—
accusative	Burkina Fasót	—
dative	Burkina Fasónak	—
instrumental	Burkina Fasóval	—
causal-final	Burkina Fasóért	—
translative	Burkina Fasóvá	—
terminative	Burkina Fasóig	—
essive-formal	Burkina Fasoként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Burkina Fasóban	—
superessive	Burkina Fasón	—
adessive	Burkina Fasónál	—
illative	Burkina Fasóba	—
sublative	Burkina Fasóra	—
allative	Burkina Fasóhoz	—
elative	Burkina Fasóból	—
delative	Burkina Fasóról	—
ablative	Burkina Fasótól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Burkina Fasóé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Burkina Fasóéi	—

Possessive forms of Burkina Faso
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Burkina Fasóm	—
2nd person sing.	Burkina Fasód	—
3rd person sing.	Burkina Fasója	—
1st person plural	Burkina Fasónk	—
2nd person plural	Burkina Fasótok	—
3rd person plural	Burkina Fasójuk	—

Derived terms

• Burkina Fasó-i

Interlingua

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /burˈki.na ˈfa.zo/

Proper noun

Burkina Faso m

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Related terms

• burkinabè

Latin

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /burˈki.na ˈfa.so/, [burˈkiːnä ˈfäːs̬o]

Proper noun

Burkīna Fasō f sg (variously declined, genitive Burkīnae Fasōnis); first declension, third declension

1. (New Latin) Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Declension

First-declension noun with a third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Burkīna Fasō
genitive	Burkīnae Fasōnis
dative	Burkīnae Fasōnī
accusative	Burkīnam Fasōnem
ablative	Burkīnā Fasōne
vocative	Burkīna Fasō
locative	Burkīnae Fasōnī Burkīnae Fasōne

Alternative forms

• Burcīna Faso

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Related terms

• burkiner
• burkinsk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Related terms

• burkinar
• burkinsk

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /burˈki.na ˈfa.sɔ/

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: Bur‧ki‧na Fa‧so

Proper noun

Burkina Faso f (related adjective burkiński)

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Declension

Declension of Burkina Faso

	singular
nominative	Burkina Faso
genitive	Burkiny Faso
dative	Burkinie Faso
accusative	Burkinę Faso
instrumental	Burkiną Faso
locative	Burkinie Faso
vocative	Burkino Faso

Proper noun

Burkina Faso n (indeclinable)

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Derived terms

nouns

• Burkinka
• Burkińczyk

 

See also

• (countries of Africa) państwa Afryki; Algieria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Czad, Demokratyczna Republika Konga, Dżibuti, Egipt, Erytrea, Eswatini, Etiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gwinea, Gwinea Bissau, Gwinea Równikowa, Kamerun, Kenia, Komory, Kongo, Lesotho, Liberia, Libia, Madagaskar, Malawi, Mali, Maroko, Mauretania, Mauritius, Mozambik, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Południowa Afryka, Republika Środkowoafrykańska, Republika Zielonego Przylądka, Rwanda, Sahara Zachodnia, Senegal, Seszele, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Sudan Południowy, Tanzania, Togo, Tunezja, Uganda, Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej, Wyspy Świętego Tomasza i Książęca, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: pl:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Further reading

• Burkina Faso in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Burkina Faso in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Burkina Faso f (Cyrillic spelling Буркина Фасо)

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buɾˌkina ˈfaso/ [buɾˌki.na ˈfa.so]

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: Bur‧ki‧na Fa‧so

Proper noun

Burkina Faso ?

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Derived terms

• burkinés
• burkinesa

 

Swahili

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso n (genitive Burkina Fasos)

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Related terms

• burkinsk (“Burkina Faso”, adjective)
• burkinier c (“Burkina Faso male”)
• burkinska c (“Burkina Faso female”)

References

• Burkina Faso in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Burkina Faso

1. Burkina Faso (a country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta)

Declension

Declension of Burkina Faso

	singular	plural
nominative	Burkina Faso	-
definite accusative	Burkina Faso'yu	-
dative	Burkina Faso'ya	-
locative	Burkina Faso'da	-
ablative	Burkina Faso'dan	-
genitive	Burkina Faso'nun	-

    possessive of Burkina Faso

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Burkina Faso'm	Burkina Fasolarım / Burkina Faso'larım
senin (your)	Burkina Faso'n	Burkina Fasoların / Burkina Faso'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Burkina Faso'su	Burkina Fasoları / Burkina Faso'ları
bizim (our)	Burkina Faso'muz	Burkina Fasolarımız / Burkina Faso'larımız
sizin (your)	Burkina Faso'nuz	Burkina Fasolarınız / Burkina Faso'larınız
onların (their)	Burkina Faso'su / Burkina Fasoları / Burkina Faso'ları	Burkina Fasoları / Burkina Faso'ları

See also

• (countries of Africa) Afrika ülkesi; Angola, Batı Sahra, Benin, Botsvana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cezayir, Cibuti, Çad, Ekvator Ginesi, Eritre, Esvatini, Etiyopiya, Fas, Fildişi Sahili, Gabon, Gambiya, Gana, Gine, Gine-Bissau, Güney Afrika, Güney Sudan, Kamerun, Kenya, Komorlar, Kongo Cumhuriyeti, Kongo Demokratik Cumhuriyeti, Lesotho, Liberya, Libya, Madagaskar, Malavi, Mali, Mauritius, Mısır, Moritanya, Mozambik, Namibya, Nijer, Nijeria, Orta Afrika Cumhuriyeti, Ruanda, São Tomé ve Príncipe, Senegal, Seyşeller, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Tanzanya, Togo, Tunus, Uganda, Yeşil Burun, Zambiya, Zimbabve ^{(Category: tr:Countries in Africa) [edit]}