Bahamas

See also bahamas, Bahama's, and Baħamas

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Disputed; Spanish baja mar ("shallow sea") or from Taino ba ha ma (“big upper middle land”) via Spanish.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: bə-hä'-məz, IPA: /bəˈhɑː.məz/, X-SAMPA: /b@"hA:.m@z/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Bahamas

1. A country in the Caribbean. Official names, short: The Bahamas; full: Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

Translations

country in the Caribbean

• Albanian: Bahama (sq)
• Arabic: البهاما (ar) (al-bahaama) f
• Armenian: Բահամներ (hy) (Bahamner) 
• Belarusian: Багамы (be) (Bahámy) f pl 
• Bengali: বাহামা (bn) (Bāhāmā)
• Breton: Bahamas (br)
• Bulgarian: Бахамски острови (bg) (Baxámski ostrovi) m pl 
• Catalan: Bahames (ca) pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴哈馬 (cmn), 巴哈马 (cmn) (Bāhāmǎ)

• Czech: Bahamy (cs) f pl
• Danish: Bahamas (da)
• Dutch: Bahama's (nl) pl
• Esperanto: Bahamoj (eo) pl
• Estonian: Bahama (et), Bahama saared (et)
• Finnish: Bahama (fi), Bahamasaaret (fi) pl
• French: Bahamas (fr) f pl
• Galician: Bahamas (gl) f pl
• German: Bahamas (de) pl
• Greek: Μπαχάμες (el) (Bahámes) 
• Hebrew: בהאמה (he) (Bahama) f
• Hindi: बहामास (hi) (bahāmās)
• Hungarian: Bahamák (hu) pl, Bahama-szigetek (hu) pl
• Icelandic: Bahamaeyjar (is)
• Indonesian: Bahama (id)
• Interlingua: Bahamas (ia)
• Italian: Bahama (it) f
• Japanese: バハマ (ja) (Bahama)
• Kalenjin: Pahama
• Kamba: Mbaama
• Kashmiri: बहामास (ks) (Bahāmās)
• Khmer: បាហាម៉ា (km) (ba ha ma)
• Kikuyu: Bahamas
• Korean: 바하마 (ko) (Bahama)
• Latin: Insulae Bahamenses (la) f pl

• Latvian: Bahamas (lv)
• Lithuanian: Bahamos (lt)
• Luhya: Ebahama
• Luo: Bahamas
• Macedonian: Бахами (mk) (Bahámi) pl, Бахамски Острови (mk) (Báhamski Óstrovi) pl
• Malay: Bahamas (ms)
• Maltese: Il-Baħamas (mt)
• Manx: Ny Bahamaghyn (gv) f pl
• Meru: Bahama
• Nauruan: Bahamas (na)
• Northern Sami: Bahamas sullot
• Norwegian: Bahamas (no)
• Occitan: Baamas (oc) f pl
• Persian: باهاما (fa) (Bâhâmâ)
• Polish: Bahamy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Bahamas (pt) f pl
• Romanian: Bahamas (ro)
• Russian: Багамы (ru) (Bagámy) f pl , Багамские острова (ru) (Bagámskije ostrová) m pl 
• Scottish Gaelic: na Bahàmas (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бахами (sh) pl, Бахамска острва (sh) m pl

  Roman: Bahami (sh) pl, Bahamska ostrva (sh) m pl

• Slovak: Bahamy (sk)
• Slovene: Bahámi (sl) m pl
• Spanish: las Bahamas (es) f pl
• Swahili: Bahama (sw)
• Swedish: Bahamas (sv)
• Tagalog: Bahamas (tl)
• Turkish: Bahamalar (tr) pl
• Ukrainian: Багами (uk) (Bahámy) f pl , Багамські Острови (uk) (Baháms’ki Ostrový) m pl 
• Urdu: بہاماس (ur) (bahāmās)

Derived terms

• Bahamian

See also

• Nassau
• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of North America)}

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Breton

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas

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Danish

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

1. Bahamas

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German

Proper noun

Bahamas pl

1. Bahamas

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

1. Bahamas

Derived terms

• bahamense

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas

See also

• bahaman, bahamaner
• bahamansk

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

1. Bahamas

Related terms

• bahamés, bahamesa
• bahameño, bahameña

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Swedish

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas