Baku

See also: baku, bąku, Bakú, and Bakü

English

Wikivoyage

Etymology

From Russian Баку́ (Bakú), from Azerbaijani Bakı. For further etymology, see Baku on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbækuː/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /bɑːˈkuː/[1]
  • Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Baku

  1. The capital city of Azerbaijan.
    • 2024 November 25, Laura Paddison, “The UN climate summit ended in bitterness and accusations of betrayal. Now fears are growing for its future”, in CNN[1]:
      COPs have been held in petrostates before. But fossil fuel interests appeared truly unleashed in Baku — potentially emboldened by the imminent arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, a man who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbaku]

Proper noun

Baku n (indeclinable, relational adjective bakuský)

  1. Baku (the capital city of Azerbaijan)

Further reading

Lithuanian

Proper noun

Baku m

  1. Baku (the capital city of Azerbaijan)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Баку́ (Bakú), from Azerbaijani Bakı.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈba.ku/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aku
  • Syllabification: Ba‧ku

Proper noun

Baku n (indeclinable)

  1. Baku (the capital city of Azerbaijan)

Derived terms

adjective
nouns
  • bakijczyk
  • bakijka

Further reading

  • Baku in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -u

Proper noun

Baku ?

  1. alternative form of Bacu

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bǎku/
  • Hyphenation: Ba‧ku

Proper noun

Bàku m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ба̀ку)

  1. Baku (the capital city of Azerbaijan)

References

  • Baku”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbaku]

Proper noun

Baku n

  1. Baku (the capital city of Azerbaijan)

References

  • Baku”, 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