Ghana

ghana Ghaną Ghána English 240px|thumb|Flag of Ghana thumb|right|Ghana on a globe Etymology Named after the Ghana Empire by J. B. Danquah, from en snk gajanŋa. Pronunciation en /ˈɡɑːnə/ UK en /ˈɡɑnə/ /ˈɡænə/ US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Ghana.wav UK en En-us-Ghana.ogg US en ɑːnə 2 en ænə 2 Proper noun en Q117en country r/West Africa Republic of Ghana. Hypernyms en Subsahara Derived terms en Ghallywood en Ghana-Must-Go en Ghanan nonstandard en Ghanaian Translations Q117 The Republic of Ghana Afrikaans: af Ghana Akan: ak Ghana, ak Gaana Amharic: am ጋና Arabic: ar غَانَا f Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܓ݂ܵܢܵܐ f Armenian: hy Գանա Asturian: ast Ghana Azerbaijani: az Qana Balinese: ban Ghana Basque: eu Ghana Belarusian: be Га́на f Bengali: bn ঘানা Betawi: bew Gana Breton: br Ghana Bulgarian: bg Га́на f Burmese: my ဂါနာ Catalan: ca Ghana Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 加納 Jiānà Mainland China, cmn 迦納 Jiānà Taiwan Czech: cs Ghana f Danish: da Ghana Dutch: nl Ghana n Esperanto: eo Ganao Estonian: et Ghana Farefare: gur Gãana Finnish: fi Ghana French: fr Ghana Georgian: ka განა German: de Ghana n Greek: el Γκάνα f Hausa: ha Gana f Gānà Hebrew: he גאנה Hindi: hi घाना Hungarian: hu Ghána Icelandic: is Gana Indonesian: id Ghana Interlingua: ia Ghana Irish: ga Gána m, ga Poblacht Ghána f Italian: it Ghana m Japanese: ja ガーナ Gāna Javanese: jv Ghana Kalenjin: kln Ghana Kamba: kam Ghana Kazakh: kk Гана Khmer: km ហ្គាណា Kikuyu: ki Ghana Korean: ko ^가나 Kyrgyz: ky Гана Latvian: lv Gana f Lithuanian: lt Gana f Luhya: luy Ghana Luo: luo Ghana Macedonian: mk Гана f Manx: gv Garney f Yn Gharney Māori: mi Kāna Meru: mer Ghana, mer Ghana Mongolian: mn Гана Navajo: nv Gáana Norman: nrf Ghana m Norwegian: no Ghana Persian: fa غنا ġanâ Polish: pl Ghana f Portuguese: pt Gana m Romanian: ro Ghana f Russian: ru Га́на f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Гана f Latin: sh Gana f Sinhalese: si ඝානාව Slovak: sk Ghana f Slovene: sl Gána f Spanish: es Ghana Sundanese: su Ghana Swahili: sw Ghana Swedish: sv Ghana Tagalog: tl Gana Tajik: tg Гана Tamil: ta கானா Thai: th กานา Turkish: tr Gana Turkmen: tk Gana Ukrainian: uk Га́на f Urdu: ur گھانا ghānā Uzbek: uz Gana Vietnamese: vi Gha-na Wolaytta: wal Gaana Yoruba: yo Gánà See also Countries of the world Anagrams en aaghn Gahan Hagan Afrikaans af: Pronunciation af LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-Ghana.wav Proper noun af Ghana Q117 af:Accra Derived terms af Ghanees Basque eu: Pronunciation Gana<hyph:Gha.na> Proper noun in eu Ghana Q117 Declension in.pr Derived terms eu ghanatar<t:Ghanaian> Further reading 38 Catalan ca: Pronunciation ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-Ghana.wav Valencia ca gana Proper noun ? ca Ghana Q117 Derived terms ca ghanès Central Huasteca Nahuatl Proper noun nch proper noun nch Ghana Q117 Central Nahuatl Proper noun nhn proper noun nhn Ghana Q117 Czech cs: Pronunciation cs Cs-Ghana.ogg Proper noun f ghanský Ghaňan cs Ghana Q117 Declension f.sg Further reading Danish da: Proper noun da proper noun da Ghana Q117 Derived terms da ghaneser da ghanesisk Dutch Pronunciation nl /ˈɣaː.naː/ nl Nl-Ghana.ogg nl Gha na Proper noun n nl Ghana Q117 Derived terms nl Ghanees Further reading nl Finnish fi: Etymology From fi en Ghana. Pronunciation ghana gaana Proper noun fi Ghana Q117 Declension sg Ghan a Derived terms fi ghanalainen French Pronunciation fr Fr-Ghana.oga fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Ghana.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>) Proper noun m fr Ghana Q117 Related terms fr Ghanéen fr ghanéen German de: Pronunciation de /ˈɡaːna/ de De-Ghana.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun toponym de Ghana Q117 Derived terms de ghanaisch de Ghanaer de Ghanese See also Indonesian id: Etymology Named after the Ghana Empire by J. B. Danquah, from id snk gajanŋa. Pronunciation ga.na Proper noun id Ghana Q117 Noun a Ghanaian Adjective Ghanaian See also Further reading Italian it: Pronunciation Ghàna Proper noun m it Ghana Q117 Derived terms it ghanese Norwegian Bokmål no thumb|The flag of Ghana. thumb|Ghana in Africa. thumb|The canopy walkway in Kakum National Park, Ghana. thumb|The approximate extent of the medieval Ghana Empire, after which the modern country was named. Etymology nb en Ghana, the name adopted by the former nb Gullkysten Gold Coast when it became independent from the United Kingdom in 1957. The modern country was named after nb Ghanariket Ghana Empire, a medieval West African state situated considerably farther northwest than present-day Ghana, principally in areas of what are now Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. The Soninke name of the medieval polity is commonly given as snk Wagadu. Medieval Arabic sources record ar غانا Ḡānā as the name of a ruler and, by extension, of the city or country he ruled. The proposal to use Ghana as the name of the former Gold Coast is associated particularly with the Ghanaian scholar and politician J. B. Danquah. The name was adopted at independence on 6 March 1957 under Kwame Nkrumah. nb Ultimate origin of the medieval name uncertain. A traditional explanation, also mentioned by Store norske leksikon, interprets ghana as a royal title meaning “war chief” or “warrior king”. A proposed linguistic explanation connects the title with Soninke snk gajanŋa to fight. The medieval evidence securely establishes Ghāna as a ruler's title and as a geographical name, but the precise linguistic derivation of the title itself is not certain. Parallel international adaptations include da Ghana, sv Ghana, de Ghana, nl Ghana, fr Ghana and en Ghana. Pronunciation nb /¹ˈɡɑː.na/ [ˈɡɑ̀ː.na] nb ɑːna 2 nb Gha na Proper noun nb proper noun Ghana; nb country r/West Africa cont/Africa Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, bordering the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Togo, with Accra as its capital. nb Accra ligger ved Guineabukta i den sørlige delen av Ghana. Accra lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the southern part of Ghana. nb 25 June 2026 Nils Petter Thuesen, Gunnar Sjøstedt, Sten Lundbo and Claudia Bätcke Ghana Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Ghana Ghana er en republikk i Vest-Afrika som ligger ved Guineabukta. Ghana is a republic in West Africa situated on the Gulf of Guinea. https://web.archive.org/web/20260809013442/https://snl.no/Ghana 9 August 2026 Usage notes The official Norwegian long-form name is Republikken Ghana (“the Republic of Ghana”). Before independence in 1957, most of the territory of the modern state was under British rule and was commonly known in Norwegian as nb Gullkysten the Gold Coast. Modern Ghana is not geographically identical with nb Ghanariket the Ghana Empire. The medieval state after which the modern country was named lay much farther northwest in the western Sahel. Derived terms nb ghaneser Ghanaian nb ghanesisk Ghanaian nb ghananer Ghanaian rare nb ghananeser Ghanaian obsolete nb ghananesisk Ghanaian obsolete See also nb Ghanariket Ghana Empire nb Gullkysten Gold Coast References “Ghana” in Store norske leksikon. “Ghanas historie” in Store norske leksikon. “Ghanariket” in Store norske leksikon. “Navn på stater” at Språkrådet. Nikolas Gestrich (2019), “The Empire of Ghana”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Proper noun nn proper noun nn Ghana Q117 Related terms nn ghanesar nn ghanesisk Polish pl: Etymology pl :bor en:Ghana<ety:uder<snk:gajanŋa>> 2 1 Pronunciation gana Pl-#.ogg;LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-Ghana.wav Gha.na Proper noun f ghański pl Ghana Q117 pl 2007 Kraków w:Rafał Górski Jan Sowa Bez państwa Korporacja ha!art 208 Natomiast antropolog Michael Löwy zasugerował, że warto wykorzystać doświadczenia mediacyjne wiosek w Ghanie. Meanwhile, anthropologist Michael Löwy suggested that it is worth using the mediation experiences of villages in Ghana. pl 2017-04-11 gosc.pl Były chodziarz olimpijski dogonił sprawcę napadu PAP https://www.gosc.pl/doc/3813581.Byly-chodziarz-olimpijski-dogonil-sprawce-napadu Na bar w miejscowości Montesilvano koło Pescary próbował napaść 23-letni mężczyzna urodzony w Ghanie, bardzo postawny i wyróżniający się długimi nogami A 23-year-old man born in Ghana, very tall and with long legs, tried to rob a bar in Montesilvano near Pescara https://web.archive.org/web/20210127141527/https://www.gosc.pl/doc/3813581.Byly-chodziarz-olimpijski-dogonil-sprawce-napadu 27 January 2021 pl 2025-07-24 gosc.pl Geolodzy chcą ochrony krateru meteorytowego w Ghanie cza/ zan/ https://www.gosc.pl/doc/9353110.Geolodzy-chca-ochrony-krateru-meteorytowego-w-Ghanie Znajduje się w Ghanie, w bogatym w minerały pasie Aszanti (jest tam m.in. złoto). It is located in Ghana, in the mineral-rich Ashanti belt (it contains gold, among other things). https://web.archive.org/web/20250724102502/https://www.gosc.pl/doc/9353110.Geolodzy-chca-ochrony-krateru-meteorytowego-w-Ghanie 24 July 2025 Declension s Derived terms pl nouns Ghańczyk Ghanka See also Further reading Slovak sk: Pronunciation Proper noun f Ghany žena sk Ghana Q117 References Spanish es: Pronunciation +<audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-Rodelar-Ghana.wav><hmp:gana> raw:/ˈɡhana/ [ˈɡʱa.na] Proper noun f es Ghana Q117 Derived terms es ghanés ghanesa Swahili sw: Pronunciation gana sw Sw-ke-Ghana.flac Kenya Proper noun sw proper noun sw Ghana Q117 Derived terms sw Mghana See also Swedish sv: Pronunciation sv /ˈɡɑːna/ sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Ghana.wav Proper noun n sv Ghana Q117 Related terms sv ghanan sv ghanansk sv ghananska See also References saol Svensk MeSH Welsh cy: Etymology From cy en Ghana, from cy snk gajanŋa to fight. Pronunciation cy /ˈɡa(ː)na/ Proper noun f cy Ghana Q117 Derived terms cy Ghanaidd a Ghanaian cy Ghaniad Chadian (person) See also Mutation -