Baku

See also: baku, bąku, Bakú, and Bakü

English

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Etymology

From Classical Persian بَاکُو (bākū). For further etymology, see Baku on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbækuː/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈbakʉw/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /bɑˈku/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈbakʉ/
• Rhymes: -ækuː, -uː

Proper noun

Baku

2. The capital city of the Republic 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

• Bakuvian

Translations

the capital city of the Republic of Azerbaijan

• Abkhaz: Бақәа (Bakʷa)
• Afrikaans: Bakoe
• Albanian: Baku
• Amharic: ባኩ (baku)
• Arabic: بَاكُو f (bākū)
• Aragonese: Bacú
• Armenian: Բաքու (hy) (Bakʻu)
• Asturian: Bakú (ast)
• Avar: Баку (Baku)
• Azerbaijani: Bakı (az)

  Cyrillic: Бакы

• Basque: Baku (eu)
• Belarusian: Баку́ m (Bakú)
• Bengali: বাকু (bn) (baku)
• Breton: Bakou
• Bulgarian: Баку́ n (Bakú)
• Burmese: ဘာကူးမြို့ (bhaku:mrui.)
• Catalan: Bakú
• Chechen: Бакох (Bakox)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 巴庫 / 巴库 (baa¹ fu³)

  Mandarin: 巴庫 / 巴库 (zh) (Bākù)

• Crimean Tatar: Baqu
• Czech: Baku (cs) n
• Danish: Baku
• Dutch: Bakoe (nl)
• Esperanto: Bakuo (eo)
• Estonian: Bakuu (et)
• Faroese: Baku n
• Finnish: Baku (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Bakou
• French: Bakou (fr)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Bakoe

• Galician: Bakú (gl)
• Georgian: ბაქო (ka) (bako)
• German: Baku (de)
• Greek: Μπακού (el) (Bakoú)
• Haitian Creole: Bakou
• Hebrew: באקו \ בָּקוּ (he) f (baku)
• Hindi: बाकू m (bākū)
• Hungarian: Baku (hu), Bakı (hu)
• Icelandic: Bakú f
• Ido: Baku
• Indonesian: Baku (id)
• Italian: Baku
• Japanese: バクー (ja) (Bakū)
• Kazakh: Бақы (Baqy)
• Khmer: បាគូ (km) (baakuu)
• Korean: 바쿠 (ko) (Baku)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Bakû (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Баку (Baku)
• Lao: ບາກູ (bā kū)
• Latin: Baku
• Latvian: Baku
• Lithuanian: Baku
• Macedonian: Баку n (Baku)
• Malay: Baku
• Maltese: Baku
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Баку (Baku)

• Newar: बाकु (bāku)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Baku

• Occitan: Bakó
• Ossetian: Баку (Baku)
• Pashto: باکو (ps) m (bākú)
• Persian: باکو (bâku), باکویه (bâkuye), بادکوبه (bâdkube)
• Piedmontese: Baku
• Polish: Baku (pl) n
• Portuguese: Bacu (pt), Baku (pt)
• Romanian: Baku (ro)
• Russian: Баку́ (ru) m (Bakú)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ба̀ку m

  Latin: Bàku (sh) m

• Sicilian: Baku
• Sinhalese: බාකු (bāku)
• Slovak: Baku (sk) n
• Slovene: Baku m
• Spanish: Bakú (es)
• Swahili: Baku
• Swedish: Baku (sv)
• Tajik: Боку (Boku)
• Talysh: Боку
• Tamil: பக்கூ (pakkū)
• Tatar: Бакы (Baqı)
• Thai: บากู (baa-guu)
• Tibetan: པཱ་ཁི (pā khi)
• Turkish: Bakü (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: باكو (Bakü)

• Turkmen: Baku
• Ukrainian: Баку́ (uk) m (Bakú)
• Urdu: باکُو m (bākū)
• Uyghur: باكۇ (baku)
• Uzbek: Boku
• Vietnamese: Ba-cu
• Volapük: Bakı
• Yiddish: באַקו (baku)

Anagrams

• buka

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaku]

Proper noun

Baku n (indeclinable, relational adjective bakuský)

1. Baku (the capital city of the Republic of Azerbaijan)

Further reading

• “Baku”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɐˈkʊ]
• Rhymes: -ʊ
• Syllabification: Ba‧kù

Proper noun

Bakù m

1. Baku (the capital city of Azerbaijan)

Further reading

• “Baku”, in Bendrinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of common Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, n.d.
• “Baku” in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija [Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia]

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Classical Persian بَاکُو (bākū)bor.

Polish Baku

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَاکُو (bākū).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ku/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aku
• Syllabification: Ba‧ku

Proper noun

Baku n (indeclinable)

1. Baku (the capital city of the Republic of Azerbaijan)

Derived terms

adjective

• bakijski

nouns

• bakijczyk
• bakijka

Further reading

• “Baku”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

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 the Republic of Azerbaijan)

References

• “Baku”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baku/, [ˈbaku]
• Rhymes: -aku
• Hyphenation: Ba‧ku

Proper noun

Baku n

1. Baku (the capital city of the Republic 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, 2003–2026