Ghana

See also: ghana and Ghána

English

Ghana

Etymology

Named after the Ghana Empire by 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
• Akan: Ghana, Gaana
• Amharic: ጋና (gana)
• Arabic: غَانَا f (ḡānā)
• Armenian: Գանա (hy) (Gana)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓ݂ܵܢܵܐ f (ḡānā)
• Azerbaijani: Qana (az)
• 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 / 加纳 (zh) (Jiānà) (Mainland China), 迦納 / 迦纳 (zh) (Jiānà) (Taiwan)

• 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 (ka) (gana)
• German: Ghana (de) n
• Greek: Γκάνα (el) f (Gkána)
• Hausa: Gānà (ha) f
• Hebrew: גאנה
• Hindi: घाना (hi) (ghānā)
• Hungarian: Ghána (hu)
• Icelandic: Gana (is)
• Interlingua: Ghana
• Irish: Gána m, Poblacht Ghána f
• Italian: Ghana (it) m
• 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 (Gana)
• 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) f
• Portuguese: Gana (pt) m
• 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)
• Turkmen: Gana
• Ukrainian: Га́на (uk) f (Hána)
• Urdu: گھانا (ghānā)
• Uzbek: Gana (uz)
• Vietnamese: Gha-na
• Yoruba: Gánà

See also

• Countries of the world
• countries of Africa (appendix)edit

  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Benin
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cabo Verde
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini ~ eSwatini, Swaziland
  • 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

Anagrams

• Gahan, Hagan

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ghana

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa; capital: Accra)

Derived terms

• Ghanees

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡana/ [ɡa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana, -a
• Hyphenation: Gha‧na

Proper noun

Ghana inan

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Ghana (inanimate, ending in -a)

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

Derived terms

• ghanatar (“Ghanaian”)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡa.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡa.na]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Homophone: gana

Proper noun

Ghana ?

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• ghanès

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Ghana

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Ghana

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɦana]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ghana f (relational adjective ghanský, demonym Ghaňan)

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Ghana (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Ghana
genitive	Ghany
dative	Ghaně
accusative	Ghanu
vocative	Ghano
locative	Ghaně
instrumental	Ghanou

Further reading

• “Ghana”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Ghana”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Ghana”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Proper noun

Ghana

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• ghaneser
• ghanesisk

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣaː.naː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Gha‧na

Proper noun

Ghana n

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• Ghanees

Further reading

• Ghana on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Finnish

Etymology

From English Ghana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡhɑnɑ/, [ˈɡhɑ̝nɑ̝]
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːnɑ/, [ˈɡɑ̝ːnɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): Gha‧na

Proper noun

Ghana

1. 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	—
abessive		Ghanatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Ghana (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Ghanani — accusative nom. Ghanani — gen. Ghanani genitive Ghanani — partitive Ghanaani — inessive Ghanassani — elative Ghanastani — illative Ghanaani — adessive Ghanallani — ablative Ghanaltani — allative Ghanalleni — essive Ghananani — translative Ghanakseni — abessive Ghanattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Ghanasi — accusative nom. Ghanasi — gen. Ghanasi genitive Ghanasi — partitive Ghanaasi — inessive Ghanassasi — elative Ghanastasi — illative Ghanaasi — adessive Ghanallasi — ablative Ghanaltasi — allative Ghanallesi — essive Ghananasi — translative Ghanaksesi — abessive Ghanattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Ghanamme — accusative nom. Ghanamme — gen. Ghanamme genitive Ghanamme — partitive Ghanaamme — inessive Ghanassamme — elative Ghanastamme — illative Ghanaamme — adessive Ghanallamme — ablative Ghanaltamme — allative Ghanallemme — essive Ghananamme — translative Ghanaksemme — abessive Ghanattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Ghananne — accusative nom. Ghananne — gen. Ghananne genitive Ghananne — partitive Ghanaanne — inessive Ghanassanne — elative Ghanastanne — illative Ghanaanne — adessive Ghanallanne — ablative Ghanaltanne — allative Ghanallenne — essive Ghanananne — translative Ghanaksenne — abessive Ghanattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Ghanansa — accusative nom. Ghanansa — gen. Ghanansa genitive Ghanansa — partitive Ghanaansa — inessive Ghanassaan Ghanassansa — elative Ghanastaan Ghanastansa — illative Ghanaansa — adessive Ghanallaan Ghanallansa — ablative Ghanaltaan Ghanaltansa — allative Ghanalleen Ghanallensa — essive Ghananaan Ghananansa — translative Ghanakseen Ghanaksensa — abessive Ghanattaan Ghanattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• ghanalainen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.na/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ghana m

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• Ghanéen
• ghanéen

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːna/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ghana n (proper noun, genitive Ghanas or (optionally with an article) Ghana)

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• ghanaisch
• Ghanaer
• Ghanese

See also

• countries of Africa: Staaten Afrikas (appendix)edit

  • Ägypten
  • Algerien
  • Angola
  • Äquatorialguinea
  • Äthiopien
  • Benin
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Demokratische Republik Kongo
  • Dschibuti
  • Elfenbeinküste
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini
  • Gabun
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Kamerun
  • Kap Verde
  • Kenia
  • Komoren
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libyen
  • Madagaskar
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Marokko
  • Mauretanien
  • Mauritius
  • Mosambik
  • Namibia
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Republik Kongo
  • Ruanda
  • Sambia
  • Senegal
  • Seychellen
  • Sierra Leone
  • Simbabwe
  • Somalia
  • Südafrika
  • Sudan
  • Südsudan
  • São Tomé und Príncipe
  • Tansania
  • Togo
  • Tschad
  • Tunesien
  • Uganda
  • Zentralafrikanische Republik

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: Ghà‧na

Proper noun

Ghana m

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• ghanese

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Ghana

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• ghaneser
• ghanesisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Ghana

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• ghanesar
• ghanesisk

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Ghana, from Soninke gajanŋa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.na/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Gha‧na

Proper noun

Ghana f (related adjective ghański)

1. 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):

• Ghanka
• Ghańczyk

See also

• countries of Africa: państwa Afryki (appendix)edit

  • 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

Further reading

• Ghana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɦana]

Proper noun

Ghana f (genitive singular Ghany, declension pattern of žena)

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

References

• “Ghana”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/ [ˈɡa.na]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Gha‧na
• Homophone: gana

Proper noun

Ghana f

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• ghanés
• ghanesa

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Ghana

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• Mghana

See also

• countries of Africa: nchi za Afrika (appendix)edit

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ghana n (genitive Ghanas)

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• ghanan
• ghanansk
• ghananska

References

• Ghana in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Welsh

Etymology

From English Ghana, from Soninke gajanŋa (“to fight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa(ː)na/

Proper noun

Ghana f

1. Ghana (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• Ghanaidd (“Ghanaian”, adjective)
• Ghaniad (“Chadian (person)”)

See also

• countries of Africa: gwledydd Affrica (appendix)edit

  • Angola
  • Algeria
  • Benin
  • Botswana
  • Bwrcina Ffaso
  • Bwrwndi
  • Cabo Verde
  • Camerŵn
  • Cenia
  • De Affrica
  • De Swdan
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini
  • Ethiopia
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Gini
  • Gini Bisaw
  • Gini Gyhydeddol
  • Gorllewin Sahara
  • Gweriniaeth Canolbarth Affrica
  • Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd y Congo
  • Gweriniaeth y Congo
  • Jibwti
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libia
  • Madagasgar
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mawrisiws
  • Mawritania
  • Moroco
  • Mosambic
  • Namibia
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • Sambia
  • Senegal
  • Sierra Leone
  • Simbabwe
  • Somalia
  • Swdan
  • São Tomé a Príncipe
  • Tansania
  • Tiwnisia
  • Togo
  • Tsiad
  • Wganda
  • y Comoros
  • y Seychelles
  • y Traeth Ifori
  • yr Aifft

Mutation

Mutated forms of Ghana

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Ghana	unchanged△	Nghana	unchanged

^△Irregular.

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