name
Meaning 1
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Ghana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Ghana
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈɡɑːnə/
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US: /ˈɡɑnə/
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US: /ˈɡænə/
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noun
Meaning 2
A style of Maltese folk singing
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Republic of Ghana, Gold Coast
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: African country, African nation
History
Etymology
Named after the Ghana Empire by J. B. Danquah, from Soninke gajanŋa.
From Maltese għana, from Arabic غِناء (ḡināʔ).
Across languages
Translations
88 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Akan: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Akan: Gaana — The Republic of Ghana
- Amharic: ጋና (gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Arabic: غَانَا (ḡānā) — The Republic of Ghana
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓ݂ܵܢܵܐ (ḡānā) — The Republic of Ghana
- Armenian: Գանա (Gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Asturian: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Azerbaijani: Qana — The Republic of Ghana
- Balinese: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Basque: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Belarusian: Га́на (Hána) — The Republic of Ghana
- Bengali: ঘানা (ghana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Betawi: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Breton: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Bulgarian: Га́на (Gána) — The Republic of Ghana
- Burmese: ဂါနာ (gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Catalan: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Chinese Mandarin: 加納 /加纳 (Jiānà) — The Republic of Ghana
- Chinese Mandarin: 迦納 /迦纳 (Jiānà) — The Republic of Ghana
- Czech: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Danish: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Dutch: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Esperanto: Ganao — The Republic of Ghana
- Estonian: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Farefare: Gãana — The Republic of Ghana
- Finnish: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- French: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Georgian: განა (gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- German: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Greek: Γκάνα (Gkána) — The Republic of Ghana
- Hausa: Gānà — The Republic of Ghana
- Hebrew: גאנה — The Republic of Ghana
- Hindi: घाना (ghānā) — The Republic of Ghana
- Hungarian: Ghána — The Republic of Ghana
- Icelandic: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Indonesian: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Interlingua: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Irish: Gána — The Republic of Ghana
- Irish: Poblacht Ghána — The Republic of Ghana
- Italian: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Japanese: ガーナ (Gāna) — The Republic of Ghana
- Javanese: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Kalenjin: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Kamba: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Kazakh: Гана (Gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Khmer: ហ្គាណា (gaanaa) — The Republic of Ghana
- Kikuyu: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Korean: 가나 (Gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Kyrgyz: Гана (Gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Latvian: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Lithuanian: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Luhya: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Luo: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Macedonian: Гана (Gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Manx: Yn Gharney — The Republic of Ghana
- Māori: Kāna — The Republic of Ghana
- Meru: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Mongolian: Гана (Gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Navajo: Gáana — The Republic of Ghana
- Norman: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Norwegian: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Persian: غنا (ġanâ) — The Republic of Ghana
- Polish: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Portuguese: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Romanian: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Russian: Га́на (Gána) — The Republic of Ghana
- Serbo-Croatian: Гана — The Republic of Ghana
- Serbo-Croatian: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Sinhalese: ඝානාව (ghānāwa) — The Republic of Ghana
- Slovak: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Slovene: Gána — The Republic of Ghana
- Spanish: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Sundanese: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Swahili: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Swedish: Ghana — The Republic of Ghana
- Tagalog: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Tajik: Гана (Gana) — The Republic of Ghana
- Tamil: கானா (kāṉā) — The Republic of Ghana
- Thai: กานา (gaa-nâa) — The Republic of Ghana
- Turkish: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Turkmen: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Ukrainian: Га́на (Hána) — The Republic of Ghana
- Urdu: گھانا (ghānā) — The Republic of Ghana
- Uzbek: Gana — The Republic of Ghana
- Vietnamese: Gha-na — The Republic of Ghana
- Wolaytta: Gaana — The Republic of Ghana
- Yoruba: Gánà — The Republic of Ghana
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