Baku
English
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
- 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
the capital city of Azerbaijan
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References
- ^ “Baku”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbaku]
Proper noun
Baku n (indeclinable, relational adjective bakuský)
- Baku (the capital city of Azerbaijan)
Further reading
- “Baku”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
Lithuanian
Proper noun
Baku m
- 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)
- 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 ?
- alternative form of Bacu
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bǎku/
- Hyphenation: Ba‧ku
Proper noun
Bàku m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ба̀ку)
- 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
- 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