Ghana

See also: ghana and Ghána

English

Etymology

Named after the Ghana Empire, in turn, per J. B. Danquah, from Soninke gajanŋa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːnə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑnə/, /ˈɡænə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə
• Rhymes: -ænə

Proper noun

Ghana

2. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Ghana.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Ghanan
• Ghanaian

Translations

The Republic of Ghana

• Afrikaans: Ghana
• Amharic: ጋና (gana)
• Arabic: غَانَا‎ f (ḡānā)
• Armenian: Գանա (hy) (Gana)
• Basque: Ghana
• Belarusian: Га́на f (Hána)
• Bengali: ঘানা (bn) (ghana)
• Breton: Ghana
• Bulgarian: Га́на f (Gána)
• Burmese: ဂါနာ (gana)
• Catalan: Ghana (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加納 (zh), 加纳 (zh) (Jiānà)

• Czech: Ghana (cs) f
• Danish: Ghana (da)
• Dutch: Ghana (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ganao (eo)
• Estonian: Ghana (et)
• Farefare: Gãana
• Finnish: Ghana (fi)
• French: Ghana (fr)
• Georgian: განა (gana)
• German: Ghana (de) n
• Greek: Γκάνα (el) f (Gkána)
• Hausa: Gānà f
• Hebrew: גאנה‎
• Hindi: घाना (hi) (ghānā)
• Hungarian: Ghána (hu)
• Icelandic: Gana (is)
• Interlingua: Ghana
• Irish: Gána m, Poblacht Ghána f
• Italian: Ghana (it)
• Japanese: ガーナ (ja) (Gāna)
• Kalenjin: Ghana, Ghana
• Kamba: Ghana
• Kazakh: Гана (kk) (Gana)
• Khmer: ហ្គាណា (gaanaa)
• Kikuyu: Ghana

• Korean: 가나 (ko) (Gana)
• Kyrgyz: Гана (Ğana)
• Latvian: Gana (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Gana (lt) f
• Luhya: Ghana
• Luo: Ghana
• Macedonian: Гана (mk) f (Gana)
• Manx: Yn Gharney f
• Maori: Kāna
• Meru: Ghana, Ghana
• Mongolian: Гана (mn) (Gana)
• Navajo: Gáana
• Norman: Ghana m
• Norwegian: Ghana (no)
• Persian: غنا‎ (fa) (ğanâ)
• Polish: Ghana (pl)
• Portuguese: Gana (pt)
• Romanian: Ghana (ro) f
• Russian: Га́на (ru) f (Gána)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гана f

  Roman: Gana (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ඝානාව (ghānāwa)
• Slovak: Ghana f
• Slovene: Gána (sl) f
• Spanish: Ghana (es)
• Swahili: Ghana (sw)
• Swedish: Ghana (sv)
• Tagalog: Gana
• Tajik: Гана (Gana)
• Thai: กานา (th) (gaa-nâa)
• Turkish: Gana (tr)
• Ukrainian: Га́на (uk) f (Hána)
• Urdu: گھانا‎ (ghānā)
• Vietnamese: Gha-na
• Yoruba: Gana

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, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries) [edit]}

Anagrams

• Gahan, Hagan

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Ghana

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

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Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡana/, [ɡa.na]

Proper noun

Ghana inan

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Ghana (inan, indef, -A)

	indefinite
absolutive	Ghana
ergative	Ghanak
dative	Ghanari
genitive	Ghanaren
comitative	Ghanarekin
causative	Ghanarentzat
benefactive	Ghanarengatik
instrumental	Ghanaz
inessive	Ghanan
locative	Ghanako
allative	Ghanara
terminative	Ghanaraino
directive	Ghanarantz
destinative	Ghanarako
ablative	Ghanatik
partitive	Ghanarik
prolative	Ghanatzat

Derived terms

• ghanar

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.na/

• Audio (Valencian)

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• Homophone: gana

Proper noun

Ghana ?

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• ghanès

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Ghana

1. Ghana (a country in Africa)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Ghana

1. Ghana (a country in Africa)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Ghana f

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• ghanský
• Ghaňan

Further reading

• Ghana in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Ghana in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣaː.naː/
• Hyphenation: Gha‧na

Proper noun

Ghana n

1. Ghana

Derived terms

• Ghanees

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Finnish

Proper noun

Ghana

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Ghana (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		Ghana	—
genitive		Ghanan	—
partitive		Ghanaa	—
illative		Ghanaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Ghana	—
accusative	nom.	Ghana	—
	gen.	Ghanan
genitive		Ghanan	—
partitive		Ghanaa	—
inessive		Ghanassa	—
elative		Ghanasta	—
illative		Ghanaan	—
adessive		Ghanalla	—
ablative		Ghanalta	—
allative		Ghanalle	—
essive		Ghanana	—
translative		Ghanaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Ghanatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Ghana (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Ghanani	Ghanamme
2nd person	Ghanasi	Ghananne
3rd person	Ghanansa

Derived terms

• ghanalainen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.na/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Ghana m

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• Ghanéen
• ghanéen

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːna/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Ghana n (genitive Ghanas)

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• ghanaisch
• Ghanaer
• Ghanese

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.na/

Proper noun

Ghana f

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• ghanese

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Ghana

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• ghaneser
• ghanesisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Ghana

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• ghanesar
• ghanesisk

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Polish

Etymology

From English Ghana, from Soninke gajanŋa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): //ˈɡa.na//

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Ghana f

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Ghana

	singular
nominative	Ghana
genitive	Ghany
dative	Ghanie
accusative	Ghanę
instrumental	Ghaną
locative	Ghanie
vocative	Ghano

Derived terms

• (nouns) Ghańczyk, Ghanka
• (adjective) ghański

Further reading

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

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɦana]

Proper noun

Ghana f (genitive Ghany, declension pattern of žena)

1. Ghana (a country in Africa)

References

• Ghana in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/, [ˈɡa.na]
• Homophone: gana

Proper noun

Ghana f

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• ghanés, ghanesa

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Ghana

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• Mghana

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]}

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Swedish

Proper noun

Ghana n (genitive Ghanas)

2. Ghana (a country in West Africa)