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Burkina Fasoan

Burkina Fasoan adjective: of or from Burkina Faso.

Adjective

Burkina Fasoan (comparative more Burkina Fasoan, superlative most Burkina Fasoan)

  1. (rare) Of or from Burkina Faso.
    • Burkina Fasoan legislation surmounts one more step which sees in the organ created in this country and designated as the Superior Council of Information (S.C.I.), " an administrative authority".1995, Study on Legislation Related to Regulations Organs in the Field of Broadcasting in West Africa
    • In the light of some new findings the Burkina Fasoan records of Phrynobatrachus francisci and P. natalensis are now regarded P. c.f. latifrons Ahl.1924 and P. c.f. francisci (Boulenger, 1912) respectively.1995, The British Herpetological Society Bulletin, page 26

Noun

Burkina Fasoan (plural Burkina Fasoans)

  1. (rare) A person from Burkina Faso.
    • […] Indonesians, Kurds, Pakistanis (or maybe Palestinians), and Albanians, too, Bosnians, Moors, and Khmer, among which there were, categorically, Haitians, Tahitians, Cretans, Cypriots, Congolese, Bangladeshis, Côte d’Ivoirians, and Burkina Fasoans, and all of them entirely not too badly bore this...2005, Yurii Andrukhovych, translated by Michael M. Naydan, Perverzion, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 26
    • Burkina Fasoans use the plant for malaria (UPW).2009, James A. Duke, Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin, Andrea R. Ottesen, Duke’s Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America, Boca Raton, Fla.; London; New York, N.Y.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7

Examples of Burkina Fasoan in a sentence

  • Sankara, Thomas (1950–87) Burkina Fasoan soldier and president2000, Bill Swainson, editor, Encarta Book of Quotations, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 822:
  • We should see in every prostitute an accusing finger pointing firmly at society as a whole. […] —Thomas Sankara, Burkina Fasoan President, March 8, 19872001, Michael Pennock, Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality, Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, →ISBN, page 238:
  • One of the youngest of the plethora of new African filmmakers was the Burkina Fasoan Idrissa Ouedraogo. […] Burkina Fasoan cinema2004, Mark Cousins, The Story of Film, New York, N.Y.: Thunder’s Mouth Press, →ISBN, pages 432 and 497:
  • On the sex industry Burkina Fasoan President Thomas Sankara made a seemingly religious-based statement: […]2012, G. A. Mohr, The War of the Sexes: Women Are Getting on Top, Xlibris, →ISBN:

Synonyms of Burkina Fasoan

Forms of Burkina Fasoan

Adjective
comparativemore Burkina Fasoan
superlativemost Burkina Fasoan
Noun
pluralBurkina Fasoans

Origin of Burkina Fasoan

From Burkina Faso + -an.

Questions about Burkina Fasoan

What does Burkina Fasoan mean?
Burkina Fasoan means of or from Burkina Faso.
How do you use Burkina Fasoan in a sentence?
Sankara, Thomas (1950–87) Burkina Fasoan soldier and president
What part of speech is Burkina Fasoan?
Burkina Fasoan can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Burkina Fasoan in the dictionary

  1. burkholderial
  2. Burkholders
  3. Burkian
  4. Burkina
  5. Burkina Faso
  6. Burkina Fasoan
  7. Burkina Fasoans
  8. Burkinabe
  9. Burkinabes
  10. Burkinabé
  11. Burkinese

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