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Burkina Faso

/buʁ.ki.na fa.so/

proper noun/buʁ.ki.na fa.so/

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

Related: Burkinabé, burkinabé

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