Bahrain

English

Alternative forms

• Bahrein

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic اَلْبَحْرَيْن‏ (al-baḥrayn, literally “the two seas”), from بَحْر‏ (baḥr, “sea”), from Proto-Semitic *baḥr- (“sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑːˈɹeɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪn

Proper noun

Bahrain

1. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Kingdom of Bahrain.

Derived terms

• Bahraini
• BHR

Translations

country in the Middle East

• Albanian: Bahrain m (indefinite), Bahraini m
• Amharic: ባሕሬን (baḥren)
• Arabic: اَلْبَحْرَيْن‏‎ m (al-baḥrayn)
• Aramaic: ܒܚܪܝܢ‏‎
• Armenian: Բահրեյն (Bahreyn)
• Azeri: Bəhreyn (az)
• Bashkir: Бахрейн (Baxreyn)
• Belarusian: Бахрэ́йн m (Baxréjn)
• Bengali: বাহরাইন (bahrain)
• Breton: Bahrein
• Bulgarian: Бахре́йн (bg) m (Bahréjn)
• Burmese: ဘာရိန်း (bharin:)
• Catalan: Bahrain (ca) m
• Chechen: Бахьрайн (Baḥrajn)
• Cherokee: ᏆᎭᎴᎢᏂ (quahaleini)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴林 (zh) (Bālín)

• Crimean Tatar: Bahreyn
• Czech: Bahrajn (cs) m
• Danish: Bahrain
• Dutch: Bahrein (nl) n
• Esperanto: Barejno (eo)
• Estonian: Bahrein (et)
• Finnish: Bahrain (fi)
• French: Bahreïn (fr) m, Bahrayn (fr) m
• Galician: Bahrain (gl)
• Georgian: ბაჰრეინი (bahreini)
• German: Bahrain (de)
• Greek: Μπαχρέιν (el) n (Bachréin)

  Ancient: Τύλος (Túlos)

• Gujarati: બહરૈન (bahrain)
• Hebrew: בַּחְרֵיְן / בחריין‏‎ (baḥreyn)
• Hindi: बहरीन (hi) (bahrīn)
• Hungarian: Bahrein (hu)
• Icelandic: Barein (is)
• Indonesian: Bahrain (id)
• Interlingua: Bahrein
• Irish: Bairéin f
• Italian: Bahrain, Bahrein (it) m
• Japanese: バーレーン (ja) (Bārēn)
• Kalenjin: Bahren
• Kamba: Bareni
• Kashmiri: बहरैन (bahrain)
• Kazakh: Бахрейн (Baxreyn)
• Khmer: បារ៉ែន (km) (ba rehn)
• Kikuyu: Bahren
• Korean: 바레인 (Barein)
• Kumyk: Багьрайн
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Behreyn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Бахрейн (ky) (Bahreyn)
• Lao: ບາເລນ (bā lēn)

• Latin: Bachrania
• Latvian: Bahreina f
• Lithuanian: Bahreinas (lt) m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Bahrain (nds)

• Luhya: Bareni
• Luo: Bareen
• Macedonian: Бахреин m (Bahrein)
• Malay: Bahrain
• Maltese: Bahrain
• Marathi: बहरीन (bahrīn)
• Meru: Bareni
• Mongolian: Бахрейн (Bahrejn)
• Nauruan: Bahrain
• Norman: Bahrain
• Norwegian: Bahrain (no)
• Occitan: Bahrayn (oc)
• Ossetian: Бахрейн (Baxrejn)
• Pashto: بحرین‏‎
• Persian: بحرین‏‎ (fa) (bahreyn)
• Polish: Bahrajn (pl) m
• Portuguese: Bahrein (pt), Barém (pt)
• Romanian: Bahrain (ro) n
• Russian: Бахре́йн (ru) m (Baxréjn)
• Scottish Gaelic: Bahrain
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бахреин m

  Roman: Bahrein (sh) m

• Sinhalese: බහරේන් (baharēn)
• Slovak: Bahrajn (sk) m
• Slovene: Bahrájn (sl) m
• Spanish: Baréin (es)
• Swahili: Bahrain (sw)
• Swedish: Bahrain (sv) n
• Tagalog: Bahrain (tl)
• Tajik: Баҳрайн (tg) (Bahrayn)
• Tamil: பகுரைன் (pakuraiṉ)
• Tatar: Бәхрәйн (Bäxräyn)
• Telugu: బహ్రయిన్ (te) (bahrayin)
• Thai: บาห์เรน (th) (baa-reen)
• Tibetan: བྷཧ་རཡིན (bhah ryin)
• Turkish: Bahreyn (tr)
• Turkmen: Bahreýn
• Ukrainian: Бахре́йн (uk) m (Baxréjn)
• Urdu: بحرین‏‎ (bahrīn, bahrayn)
• Uyghur: بەھرېيىن‏‎ (behrëyin)
• Uzbek: Bahrayn (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ba-ren
• Welsh: Bahrain
• West Frisian: Barein
• Yiddish: באַכריין‏‎ (bakhreyn), באַהריין‏‎ (bareyn)

See also

• Manama
• Appendix:Countries of the world

Anagrams

• Bharani

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Danish

Proper noun

Bahrain

1. Bahrain

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Finnish

Proper noun

Bahrain

1. Bahrain

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German

Alternative forms

• Bahrein

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n

Proper noun

Bahrain n (genitive Bahrains)

1. Bahrain

Derived terms

• Bahrainer
• Bahrainerin

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Italian

Proper noun

Bahrain m

1. Bahrain

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bahrain

1. Bahrain

Related terms

• bahrainer
• bahrainsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bahrain

1. Bahrain

Related terms

• bahrainar
• bahrainsk

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Bahrain m

1. Alternative form of Bahrein

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Romanian

Proper noun

Bahrain

1. Bahrain

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Swahili

Proper noun

Bahrain

1. Bahrain

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Swedish

Proper noun

Bahrain

1. Bahrain

Alternative forms

• Bahrein