Panama

See also: panama, Panamá, Panamà, panamá, and paṇāma

English

Etymology

Probably from Guaraní, an unknown word traditionally said to mean "place of many fish."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæn.ə.mɑː/

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Proper noun

Panama

1. A country in Central America, the Republic of Panama.

Derived terms

• Panama Canal
• Panama City
• Panama hat
• Panamanian

 

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Panama
• Albanian: Panama f
• Amharic: ፓናማ (panama)
• Arabic: بَنَمَا f (banamā)
• Armenian: Պանամա (Panama)
• Asturian: Panamá (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Panama (az)
• Basque: Panama (eu)
• Belarusian: Пана́ма f (Panáma), Панама́ f (Panamá)
• Bengali: পানামা (panama)
• Breton: Panama
• Bulgarian: Пана́ма f (Panáma)
• Burmese: ပနားမား (pa.na:ma:)
• Catalan: Panamà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 巴拿馬／巴拿马 (baa¹ naa⁴ maa⁵), 巴拿马 (baa¹ naa⁴ maa⁵)

  Hakka: 巴拿馬／巴拿马, 巴拿马 (Pâ-nâ-mâ)

  Mandarin: 巴拿馬／巴拿马 (zh) (Bānámǎ), 巴拿马 (zh) (Bānámǎ)

  Min Nan: 巴拿馬／巴拿马 (zh-min-nan), 巴拿马 (zh-min-nan) (Pa-ná-má)

• Czech: Panama (cs) f
• Danish: Panama (da)
• Dhivehi: ޕެނަމާ (penamā)
• Dutch: Panama (nl) n
• Esperanto: Panamo (eo)
• Estonian: Panama (et)
• Finnish: Panama (fi)
• French: Panama (fr) m, Panamá (fr) m
• Galician: Panamá (gl)
• Georgian: პანამა (ṗanama)
• German: Panama (de) n
• Greek: Παναμάς (el) (Panamás)
• Gujarati: પનામા (panāmā)
• Hebrew: פנמה f (panama)
• Hindi: पनामा (hi) (panāmā)
• Hungarian: Panama (hu)
• Icelandic: Panama (is)
• Indonesian: Panama (id)
• Interlingua: Panama
• Irish: Panama m
• Italian: Panama f
• Japanese: パナマ (ja) (Panama)
• Kalenjin: Panama
• Kamba: Panama
• Kannada: ಪನಾಮಾ (panāmā)
• Kazakh: Панама (Panama)
• Khmer: ប៉ាណាម៉ា (km) (paanaamaa)
• Kikuyu: Panama
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• Korean: 파나마 (Panama)
• Kyrgyz: Панама (Panama)
• Lao: ປານາມາ (pā nā mā)
• Latvian: Panama (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Panama (lt) f
• Luhya: Panama
• Luo: Panama
• Macedonian: Пана́ма (mk) f (Panáma)
• Malay: Panama
• Malayalam: പനാമ (panāma)
• Maltese: il-Panama
• Mongolian: Панам (Panam)
• Norman: Panama m
• Norwegian: Panama (no)
• Oriya: ପାନାମା (pānāmā)
• Ossetian: Панамӕ (Panamæ)
• Pashto: پاناما (pānāmā), پانامه (ps) (pānāmâ)
• Persian: پاناما (fa) (pânâmâ)
• Polish: Panama (pl) f
• Portuguese: Panamá (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪਨਾਮਾ (panāmā)
• Romanian: Panama (ro) f
• Russian: Пана́ма (ru) f (Panáma), Панама́ (ru) f (Panamá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Па̀нама f

  Roman: Pànama (sh) f

• Sinhalese: පැනමාව (pænamāwa)
• Slovak: Panama f
• Slovene: Panama (sl) f
• Spanish: Panamá (es) m
• Swahili: Panama (sw)
• Swedish: Panama (sv)
• Tagalog: Panama
• Tajik: Панама (Panama)
• Tatar: Панама (Panama)
• Telugu: పనామా (te) (panāmā)
• Thai: ปานามา (th) (bpaa-naa-maa)
• Tibetan: པ་ན་མ (pa na ma)
• Turkish: Panama (tr)
• Turkmen: Panama
• Ukrainian: Пана́ма (uk) f (Panáma), Панама́ (uk) f (Panamá)
• Urdu: پاناما (pānāmā), پانامہ (pānāmâ), پناما (panāmā)
• Uzbek: Panama (uz)
• Vietnamese: Pa-na-ma
• Yiddish: פּאַנאַמאַ (panama)
• Yoruba: Panama

Noun

Panama (plural Panamas)

1. A Panama hat.

Translations

Panama hat — see Panama hat

See also

• (countries of Central America) country of Central America; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

References

• Panama at Online Etymological Dictionary.

Further reading

• Panama on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Czech

Proper noun

Panama f

2. Panama

Related terms

• panamský
• Panaman
• Panamec

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA
• Template:R:SSJC

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Panama n

2. Panama

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Finnish

Proper noun

Panama

2. Panama

Declension

Inflection of Panama (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Panama	—
genitive		Panaman	—
partitive		Panamaa	—
illative		Panamaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Panama	—
accusative	nom.	Panama	—
	gen.	Panaman
genitive		Panaman	—
partitive		Panamaa	—
inessive		Panamassa	—
elative		Panamasta	—
illative		Panamaan	—
adessive		Panamalla	—
ablative		Panamalta	—
allative		Panamalle	—
essive		Panamana	—
translative		Panamaksi	—
abessive		Panamatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Panama (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Panamani — accusative nom. Panamani — gen. Panamani genitive Panamani — partitive Panamaani — inessive Panamassani — elative Panamastani — illative Panamaani — adessive Panamallani — ablative Panamaltani — allative Panamalleni — essive Panamanani — translative Panamakseni — abessive Panamattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Panamasi — accusative nom. Panamasi — gen. Panamasi genitive Panamasi — partitive Panamaasi — inessive Panamassasi — elative Panamastasi — illative Panamaasi — adessive Panamallasi — ablative Panamaltasi — allative Panamallesi — essive Panamanasi — translative Panamaksesi — abessive Panamattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Panamamme — accusative nom. Panamamme — gen. Panamamme genitive Panamamme — partitive Panamaamme — inessive Panamassamme — elative Panamastamme — illative Panamaamme — adessive Panamallamme — ablative Panamaltamme — allative Panamallemme — essive Panamanamme — translative Panamaksemme — abessive Panamattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Panamanne — accusative nom. Panamanne — gen. Panamanne genitive Panamanne — partitive Panamaanne — inessive Panamassanne — elative Panamastanne — illative Panamaanne — adessive Panamallanne — ablative Panamaltanne — allative Panamallenne — essive Panamananne — translative Panamaksenne — abessive Panamattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Panamansa — accusative nom. Panamansa — gen. Panamansa genitive Panamansa — partitive Panamaansa — inessive Panamassaan Panamassansa — elative Panamastaan Panamastansa — illative Panamaansa — adessive Panamallaan Panamallansa — ablative Panamaltaan Panamaltansa — allative Panamalleen Panamallensa — essive Panamanaan Panamanansa — translative Panamakseen Panamaksensa — abessive Panamattaan Panamattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• panamalainen

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Panama n (proper noun, strong, genitive Panamas)

2. Panama

Derived terms

• Panamaer
• Panamaerin
• Panamahut
• panamaisch
• Panamakanal

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Irish

Etymology

Probably from Guaraní (via English).

Proper noun

Panama m (genitive Phanama)

2. Panama (country in Central America)
3. Panama City

Derived terms

• Panamach (“Panamanian”, adjective)
• Panamach m (“Panamanian”)

 

Related terms

• (hata) panama (“Panama hat”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Panama	Phanama	bPanama
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Panama”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Panama”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Italian

Alternative forms

• Panamà

Proper noun

Panama f

2. Panama

Derived terms

• panamense

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Latin

Proper noun

Panama f sg (genitive Panamae); first declension

2. (New Latin) Panama

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Panama
Genitive	Panamae
Dative	Panamae
Accusative	Panamam
Ablative	Panamā
Vocative	Panama
Locative	Panamae

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Panama

2. Panama

See also

• panamaner
• panamansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Panama

2. Panama

See also

• panaman, panamanar
• panamansk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈna.ma/

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Proper noun

Panama f

2. Panama (country)
4. Panama (city)

Declension

Declension of Panama

	singular
nominative	Panama
genitive	Panamy
dative	Panamie
accusative	Panamę
instrumental	Panamą
locative	Panamie
vocative	Panamo

Derived terms

• (#1) Panamczyk m, Panamka f
• (#2) panamczyk m, panamka f
• adjective: panamski

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǎnama/
• Hyphenation: Pa‧na‧ma

Proper noun

Pànama f (Cyrillic spelling Па̀нама)

2. Panama

Declension

Declension of Panama

	singular
nominative	Panama
genitive	Paname
dative	Panami
accusative	Panamu
vocative	Panamo
locative	Panami
instrumental	Panamom

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Swedish

Proper noun

Panama n (genitive Panamas)

2. Panama

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Panamá (“Panama”).

Proper noun

Panamá

2. Panama

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Turkish

Proper noun

Panama

2. Panama

Derived terms

• Panamalı