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Burkina Faso

/buɾˌkina ˈfaso/

proper noun/buɾˌkina ˈfaso/

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

Related: burkinés, burkinesa

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