Buircíne Fasó

Irish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Buircíne Fasó m (genitive Bhuircíne Fasó)

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of Buircíne Fasó

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Buircíne Fasó	Bhuircíne Fasó	mBuircíne Fasó

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “Burkina Faso”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024