Barbados

See also: barbados

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English

Alternative forms

• Barbadoes (archaic)

Etymology

From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.dɒs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊs/, /bɑɹˈbeɪ.dəs/, /bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊz/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /baɹˈba.dos/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Barbados

2. An island and country in the Caribbean.

Derived terms

• Barbados anole
• Barbados Blackbelly
• Barbados bullfinch
• Barbados cherry
• Barbados leaf-toed gecko
• Barbados leg
• Barbados lily
• Barbados nut
• Barbados raccoon
• Barbados racer
• Barbados threadsnake
• pride of Barbados

Translations

country in the Caribbean

• Amharic: ባርቤዶስ (barbedos)
• Antillean Creole: Barbad
• Arabic: بَرْبَادُوس m (barbādos, barbēdos, barbadōs)
• Armenian: Բարբադոս (hy) (Barbados)
• Asturian: Barbados (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Barbados (az)
• Belarusian: Барба́дас m (Barbádas)
• Bengali: বার্বাডোস (bn) (barbaḍōs)
• Breton: Barbados
• Bulgarian: Барбадос m (Barbados)
• Burmese: ဘာဘေးဒိုးစ် (bhabhe:duic:)
• Catalan: Barbados (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴巴多斯 (zh) (Bābāduōsī)

• Czech: Barbados (cs) m
• Danish: Barbados
• Dutch: Barbados (nl) n
• Esperanto: Barbado (eo)
• Estonian: Barbados (et)
• Farefare: Barbadro pl
• Finnish: Barbados (fi)
• French: Barbade (fr) f
• Galician: Barbados (gl)
• Georgian: ბარბადოსი (ka) (barbadosi)
• German: Barbados (de) n
• Greek: Μπαρμπάντος (el) n (Barmpántos)
• Haitian Creole: Lababad
• Hebrew: בַּרְבֶּדוֹס (he) (barbedos)
• Hindi: बारबाडोस (hi) (bārbāḍos)
• Hungarian: Barbados (hu)
• Icelandic: Barbados (is) n
• Interlingua: Barbados
• Irish: Barbadós m
• Italian: Barbados (it) f
• Japanese: バルバドス (ja) (Barubadosu)
• Kalenjin: Babados
• Kamba: Mbabedos
• Kazakh: Барбадос (kk) (Barbados)
• Khmer: បាបាដុស (km) (baabaadoh)
• Kikuyu: Babados
• Korean: 바베이도스 (ko) (Babeidoseu), 바베이도즈 (ko) (Babeidojeu) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Барбадос (ky) (Barbados)
• Lao: ບາກບາດ (bāk bāt)
• Latin: Barbāta f
• Latvian: Barbadosa f
• Lithuanian: Barbadosas (lt) m
• Lokono: Ichirouganaim
• Luhya: Ebabados
• Luo: Babedos
• Macedonian: Барбадос (mk) m (Barbados)
• Maltese: il-Barbados
• Māori: Pāpatohe
• Meru: Babados
• Mongolian: Барбадос (mn) (Barbados)
• Navajo: Hashkʼaan bikéyah
• Norman: Barbados
• Norwegian: Barbados (no)
• Oromo: Baarbeedoos
• Persian: باربادوس (bârbâdos)
• Polish: Barbados (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Barbados (pt)
• Punjabi: ਬਾਰਬਾਡੋਸ (pa) (bārbāḍos)
• Romanian: Barbados (ro) n
• Russian: Барба́дос (ru) m (Barbádos)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Барбадос m

  Latin: Barbados (sh) m

• Slovak: Barbados (sk) m
• Slovene: Barbados (sl) m
• Spanish: Barbados (es)
• Swahili: Barbados (sw)
• Swedish: Barbados (sv) n
• Tajik: Барбадос (Barbados)
• Tamil: பார்படோஸ் (pārpaṭōs), பார்படோசு (pārpaṭōcu)
• Tatar: Барбадос (Barbados)
• Thai: บาร์เบโดส (th) (baa-bee-dóos)
• Turkish: Barbados (tr)
• Ukrainian: Барба́дос (uk) m (Barbádos)
• Urdu: بارباڈوس (bārbāḍos)
• Uyghur: باربادوس (barbados)
• Uzbek: Barbados (uz)
• Vietnamese: Bác-ba-đốt
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: Barbados

Verb

Barbados (third-person singular simple present Barbadoses, present participle Barbadosing, simple past and past participle Barbadosed)

1. (historical) To press-gang (force into naval service).
   • 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 7, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

     The Barbadian planters […] resorted to shipping in hundreds of Scottish and Irish soldiers who’d been taken prisoner during Oliver Cromwell’s conquest. When that supply ran out, they took to kidnapping children, so many that a new term was coined: “barbadosed” meant the same thing in the late seventeenth century as “shanghaied” would in the twentieth.

See also

countries in North America (appendix)edit

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Canada
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• El Salvador
• Grenada
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago
• United States of America

Asturian

Proper noun

Barbados m

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Breton

Proper noun

Barbados ?

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Catalan

Etymology

From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bərˈba.ðus]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bərˈba.ðos]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baɾˈba.ðos]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Barbados f

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Holonyms

• Petites Antilles

Derived terms

• barbadià

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbados]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Barbados m inan (relational adjective barbadoský, demonym Barbadosan)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

Declension of Barbados (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Barbados
genitive	Barbadosu
dative	Barbadosu
accusative	Barbados
vocative	Barbadose
locative	Barbadosu
instrumental	Barbadosem

Further reading

• “Barbados”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Barbados”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• barbadier
• barbadisk

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English Barbados, from Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑrˈbeː.dɔs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧dos

Proper noun

Barbados n

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean) [from 17th c.]

Estonian

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Finnish

Etymology

From Portuguese Barbados.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑrbɑdos/, [ˈbɑ̝rbɑ̝do̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑrbɑdos
• Syllabification^(key): Bar‧ba‧dos
• Hyphenation^(key): Bar‧ba‧dos

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

Inflection of Barbados (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		Barbados	—
genitive		Barbadoksen	—
partitive		Barbadosta	—
illative		Barbadokseen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Barbados	—
accusative	nom.	Barbados	—
	gen.	Barbadoksen
genitive		Barbadoksen	—
partitive		Barbadosta	—
inessive		Barbadoksessa	—
elative		Barbadoksesta	—
illative		Barbadokseen	—
adessive		Barbadoksella	—
ablative		Barbadokselta	—
allative		Barbadokselle	—
essive		Barbadoksena	—
translative		Barbadokseksi	—
abessive		Barbadoksetta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Barbados (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Barbadokseni — accusative nom. Barbadokseni — gen. Barbadokseni genitive Barbadokseni — partitive Barbadostani — inessive Barbadoksessani — elative Barbadoksestani — illative Barbadokseeni — adessive Barbadoksellani — ablative Barbadokseltani — allative Barbadokselleni — essive Barbadoksenani — translative Barbadoksekseni — abessive Barbadoksettani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Barbadoksesi — accusative nom. Barbadoksesi — gen. Barbadoksesi genitive Barbadoksesi — partitive Barbadostasi — inessive Barbadoksessasi — elative Barbadoksestasi — illative Barbadokseesi — adessive Barbadoksellasi — ablative Barbadokseltasi — allative Barbadoksellesi — essive Barbadoksenasi — translative Barbadokseksesi — abessive Barbadoksettasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Barbadoksemme — accusative nom. Barbadoksemme — gen. Barbadoksemme genitive Barbadoksemme — partitive Barbadostamme — inessive Barbadoksessamme — elative Barbadoksestamme — illative Barbadokseemme — adessive Barbadoksellamme — ablative Barbadokseltamme — allative Barbadoksellemme — essive Barbadoksenamme — translative Barbadokseksemme — abessive Barbadoksettamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Barbadoksenne — accusative nom. Barbadoksenne — gen. Barbadoksenne genitive Barbadoksenne — partitive Barbadostanne — inessive Barbadoksessanne — elative Barbadoksestanne — illative Barbadokseenne — adessive Barbadoksellanne — ablative Barbadokseltanne — allative Barbadoksellenne — essive Barbadoksenanne — translative Barbadokseksenne — abessive Barbadoksettanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Barbadoksensa — accusative nom. Barbadoksensa — gen. Barbadoksensa genitive Barbadoksensa — partitive Barbadostaan Barbadostansa — inessive Barbadoksessaan Barbadoksessansa — elative Barbadoksestaan Barbadoksestansa — illative Barbadokseensa — adessive Barbadoksellaan Barbadoksellansa — ablative Barbadokseltaan Barbadokseltansa — allative Barbadokselleen Barbadoksellensa — essive Barbadoksenaan Barbadoksenansa — translative Barbadoksekseen Barbadokseksensa — abessive Barbadoksettaan Barbadoksettansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• barbadoslainen

compounds

• barbadosinsupi

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Barbados n (proper noun, genitive Barbados' or (with an article) Barbados)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒrbɒdos]
• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧dos
• Rhymes: -os

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Barbados	—
accusative	Barbadost	—
dative	Barbadosnak	—
instrumental	Barbadosszal	—
causal-final	Barbadosért	—
translative	Barbadosszá	—
terminative	Barbadosig	—
essive-formal	Barbadosként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Barbadosban	—
superessive	Barbadoson	—
adessive	Barbadosnál	—
illative	Barbadosba	—
sublative	Barbadosra	—
allative	Barbadoshoz	—
elative	Barbadosból	—
delative	Barbadosról	—
ablative	Barbadostól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Barbadosé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Barbadoséi	—

Possessive forms of Barbados

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Barbadosom	—
2nd person sing.	Barbadosod	—
3rd person sing.	Barbadosa	—
1st person plural	Barbadosunk	—
2nd person plural	Barbadosotok	—
3rd person plural	Barbadosuk	—

Derived terms

• barbadosi

See also

countries in North America: Észak-Amerika országai (appendix)edit

• Amerikai Egyesült Államok
• Antigua és Barbuda
• Bahama-szigetek
• Barbados
• Dominikai Közösség
• Dominikai Köztársaság
• Grenada
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Kanada
• Kuba
• Mexikó
• Saint Kitts és Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent és a Grenadine-szigetek
• Trinidad és Tobago

Interlingua

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barˈba.dos/
• Rhymes: -ados
• Hyphenation: Bar‧bà‧dos

Proper noun

Barbados f

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

• barbadiano

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• barbader, barbadier
• barbadisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• barbadar
• barbadisk

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Barbados, from Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barˈba.dɔs/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -adɔs
• Syllabification: Bar‧ba‧dos

Proper noun

Barbados m inan (related adjective barbadoski)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

Declinable or undeclinable.

Declension of Barbados

	singular
nominative	Barbados
genitive	Barbadosu
dative	Barbadosowi
accusative	Barbados
instrumental	Barbadosem
locative	Barbadosie
vocative	Barbadosie

Derived terms

nouns

• Barbadoska
• Barbadosyjczyk
• Barbadosyjka
• Barbadoszczyk

See also

countries in North America: kraje Ameryki Północnej (appendix)edit

• Antigua i Barbuda
• Bahamy
• Barbados
• Dominika
• Dominikana
• Grenada
• Haiti
• Jamajka
• Kanada
• Kuba
• Meksyk
• Saint Kitts i Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent i Grenadyny
• Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki
• Trynidad i Tobago

Further reading

• Barbados in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baʁˈba.dus/ [baɦˈba.dus]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baʁˈba.dus/ [baɦˈba.dus]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /baɾˈba.dus/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /baʁˈba.duʃ/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /baɻˈba.dus/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baʁˈba.dos/ [baɦˈba.dos]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐɾˈba.duʃ/ [bɐɾˈβa.ðuʃ]

• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧dos

Proper noun

Barbados f or m pl (sometimes plural only, in variation)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

• barbadense
• barbadiano

Descendants

• → Japanese: バルバドス (Barubados)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Barbados m

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barbǎːdos/
• Hyphenation: Bar‧ba‧dos

Proper noun

Barbádos m inan (Cyrillic spelling Барба́дос)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

Declension of Barbados

	singular
nominative	Barbados
genitive	Barbadosa
dative	Barbadosu
accusative	Barbados
vocative	Barbadose
locative	Barbadosu
instrumental	Barbadosom

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barbadɔs/, [ˈbarbadɔs]
• Rhymes: -adɔs

Proper noun

Barbados m inan (genitive singular Barbadosu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

References

• “Barbados”, 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

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barbâdɔs/

Proper noun

Barbâdos m inan

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Barbádos
genitive	Barbádosa
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Barbádos
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Barbádosa
dative (dajȃlnik)	Barbádosu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Barbádos
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Barbádosu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Barbádosom

Related terms

• Barbádošan / Barbádošanka
• barbádoški

References

• “Barbados”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Barbados”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɾˈbados/ [baɾˈβ̞a.ð̞os]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ados
• Syllabification: Bar‧ba‧dos

Proper noun

Barbados ?

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• barbadense

See also

• Bridgetown

See also

countries in North America: países del América del Norte/Norteamérica (appendix)edit

• Antigua y Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Canadá
• Cuba
• Dominica
• Estados Unidos
• Granada
• Haití
• Jamaica
• México
• República Dominicana
• San Cristóbal y Nieves
• San Vicente y las Granadinas
• Santa Lucía
• Trinidad y Tobago

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Swedish

Etymology

From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Barbados n (genitive Barbados)

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• barbadisk (“Barbadian”, adjective)
• barbadier c (“Barbadian male”)
• barbadiska c (“Barbadian female”)

See also

countries in North America: Nordamerikas länder (appendix)edit

• Antigua och Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Dominica
• Dominikanska republiken
• El Salvador
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Kanada
• Kuba
• Mexiko
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Saint Kitts och Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent och Grenadinerna
• Trinidad och Tobago
• USA

Further reading

• Barbados in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Turkish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

Declension of Barbados

	singular
nominative	Barbados
accusative	Barbados'u
dative	Barbados'a
locative	Barbados'ta
ablative	Barbados'tan
genitive	Barbados'un

Possessive forms of Barbados

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Barbados'um	Barbadoslarım
senin (your)	Barbados'un	Barbadosların
onun (his/her/its)	Barbados'u	Barbadosları
bizim (our)	Barbados'umuz	Barbadoslarımız
sizin (your)	Barbados'unuz	Barbadoslarınız
onların (their)	Barbados'u	Barbadosları

See also

countries in North America: Kuzey Amerika ülkeleri (appendix)edit

• Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
• Antigua ve Barbuda
• Bahamalar
• Barbados
• Dominik Cumhuriyeti
• Dominika
• Grenada
• Haiti
• Jamaika
• Kanada
• Küba
• Meksika
• Saint Kitts ve Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent ve Grenadinler
• Trinidad ve Tobago

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barˈbeːdɔs/
• Rhymes: -eːdɔs

Proper noun

Barbados f

1. Barbados (an island and country in the Caribbean)

Coordinate terms

countries in North America: gwledydd Gogledd America (appendix)edit

• Antigwa a Barbiwda
• Barbados
• Canada
• Ciwba
• Dominica
• Grenada
• Gweriniaeth Dominica
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Mecsico
• Sant Kitts-Nevis
• Sant Lwsia
• Sant Vincent a'r Grenadines
• Trinidad a Thobago
• Unol Daleithiau America
• y Bahamas

Mutation

Mutated forms of Barbados

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Barbados	Farbados	Marbados	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.