Etymology

Burkinabe

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Today it means: A person from Burkina Faso or of Burkinabe descent. Full definition →

French burkinabé ← Moore burkĩna ← Fula -ɓe
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  1. Fula · derived from-ɓe
  2. Moore · derived fromburkĩna“honest”
  3. French · borrowed fromburkinabé
  4. English todayBurkinabe

From French burkinabé, from Moore burkĩna (“honest”) + Fula -ɓe (plural ending for a people noun), coined by Burkinabe revolutionary Thomas Sankara.

Words from the same roots

Mooreburkĩna all →

Burkina Faso

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.