Hudson Bay

English

Hudson Bay

Alternative forms

• Hudson's Bay

Etymology

From Henry Hudson, an English sea explorer.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Hudson Bay

1. A gulf officially in Nunavut, but also surrounded by Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, Canada, a southern extension of the Arctic Ocean. A large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada.
   • 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):

     Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.

2. A town in east-central Saskatchewan, Canada, previously named Hudson Bay Junction, a railway junction for a line to Hudson Bay.
3. A rural municipality, the Rural Municipality of Hudson Bay No. 394, which surrounds the Saskatchewan town.

Derived terms

• Hudson Bay pine
• Hudson Bay sable

Translations

Canadian sea

• Afrikaans: Hudsonbaai
• Albanian: gjiri të Hudson
• Arabic: خَلِيج هَدْسُون m (ḵalīj hadsūn)
• Armenian: Հուդզոնի ծոց (Hudzoni cocʻ)
• Azerbaijani: Hudzon körfəzi
• Basque: Hudson badia
• Belarusian: Гудзонаў заліў m (Hudzónaw zaliw)
• Bengali: হাডসন উপসাগর (haḍośon upośagor)
• Breton: Bae Hudson f
• Bulgarian: Хъдсънов залив m (Hădsănov zaliv)
• Burmese: ဟဒ်ဆန် ပင်လယ်အော် (hadhcan panglaiau)
• Catalan: badia de Hudson f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈德森灣 / 哈德森湾 (Hādésēn Wān), 哈德遜灣 / 哈德逊湾 (Hādéxùn Wān), 哈得孫灣 / 哈得孙湾 (zh) (Hādésūn Wān)

• Cree: please add this translation if you can

  Northern East Cree: ᐧᐄᓂᐹᒄ class Inanimate (wiinipaakw)

  Southern East Cree: ᐧᐄᓂᐯᒄ class Inanimate (wiinipekw)

• Czech: Hudsonův záliv (cs) m
• Danish: Hudsonbugten c
• Dutch: Hudsonbaai (nl) f
• Esperanto: Hudsona Golfo
• Estonian: Hudsoni laht
• Finnish: Hudsoninlahti (fi)
• French: baie d'Hudson (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Hudsonbaai

• Galician: Baía de Hudson f
• Georgian: ჰუდსონის ყურე (hudsonis q̇ure)
• German: Hudson Bay (de) f
• Greek: κόλπος Χάντσον m (kólpos Chántson)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: מפרץ הדסון m (mifráts hádsun)
• Hindi: हडसन खाड़ी (haḍsan khāṛī)
• Hungarian: Hudson-öböl (hu)
• Icelandic: Hudsonflói m
• Indonesian: Teluk Hudson
• Inuktitut: ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ (kangiqsoalok iloa)
• Irish: Bá Hudson f
• Italian: baia di Hudson f
• Japanese: ハドソン湾 (Hadoson-wan)
• Kazakh: Гудзон шығанағы (Güwdzon šığanağı)
• Khmer: ឆកហាដ់សឹន (chɑɑk-hatsən)
• Korean: 허드슨만 (heodeuseunman)
• Kyrgyz: Гудзон булуңу (Gudzon buluŋu)
• Latvian: Hudzona līcis m
• Lithuanian: Hadsono įlanka f
• Macedonian: Хадсонов Залив m (Hadsonov Zaliv)
• Malay: Teluk Hudson
• Malayalam: ഹഡ്സൺ ഉൾക്കടൽ (haḍsaṇ uḷkkaṭal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Hudsonbukta

  Nynorsk: Hudsonbukta

• Ojibwe: please add this translation if you can
• Old Norse: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: خلیج هادسون (xalij hâdsun)
• Polish: Zatoka Hudsona (pl) f
• Portuguese: Baía de Hudson f
• Punjabi: ਹਡਸਨ ਬੇਅ (haḍsan bea)
• Romanian: Golful Hudson n
• Russian: Гудзо́нов зали́в m (Gudzónov zalív)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Залив Хадсон m (Serbia), Хадсонов залив m (Bosnia), Хадсонов заљев m (Croatia)

  Latin: Zaliv Hadson m (Serbia), Hadsonov zaliv m (Bosnia), Hadsonov zaljev m (Croatia)

• Slovak: Hudsonov záliv m
• Slovene: Hudsonov zaliv m
• Spanish: bahía de Hudson f
• Swedish: Hudsonbukten c
• Tajik: Халиҷи Ҳудсун (Xalij-i Hudsun)
• Tamil: அட்சன் விரிகுடா (aṭcaṉ virikuṭā)
• Thai: อ่าวฮัดสัน (àao-hát-sǎn)
• Turkish: Hudson Körfezi
• Ukrainian: Гудзо́нова зато́ка m (Hudzónova zatóka)
• Uzbek: Gudzon qoʻltigʻi
• Vietnamese: vịnh Hudson
• Welsh: Bae Hudson f

Further reading

• Hudson Bay on Wikipedia.Wikipedia