Bahamas

See also: Baħamas and Bahama's

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK, US) enPR: bə-hä'-məz, IPA^(key): /bəˈhɑː.məz/
Audio (US) (file)

Proper noun

Bahamas

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

Usage notes

(country): Normally used in the singular since it is the name of a country.

Derived terms

Bahamian

Translations

country in the Caribbean

Albanian: Bahama
Amharic: ባሃማስ (bahamas)
Arabic: اَلْبَهَامَا‎‎ f (al-bahāmā)
Armenian: Բահամյան Կղզիներ pl (Bahamyan Kłziner), Բահամներ pl (Bahamner)
Azerbaijani: Baham adaları (az) pl
Belarusian: Бага́мы f pl (Bahámy), Бага́мскія Астравы́ m pl (Bahámskija Astravý)
Bengali: বাহামা (bahama)
Breton: Bahamas
Bulgarian: Баха́мски острови m pl (Bahámski ostrovi)
Burmese: ဘဟားမား (bha.ha:ma:)
Catalan: Bahames (ca) pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 巴哈馬 (zh), 巴哈马 (zh) (Bāhāmǎ)
Czech: Bahamy (cs) f pl
Danish: Bahamas
Dhivehi: ބަހާމަސް‎‎ (bahāmas)
Dutch: Bahama's (nl) pl
Esperanto: Bahamoj (eo) pl
Estonian: Bahama (et), Bahama saared pl
Finnish: Bahama (fi), Bahamasaaret pl
French: Bahamas (fr) f pl
Galician: Bahamas (gl) f pl
Georgian: ბაჰამის კუნძულები (bahamis ḳunʒulebi)
German: Bahamas (de) pl
Greek: Μπαχάμες (el) f pl (Bachámes)
Hebrew: בהאמה‎‎ f (bahama), איי בהאמה‎‎ (lye bahama)
Hindi: बहामास (hi) (bahāmās)
Hungarian: Bahamák pl, Bahama-szigetek (hu) pl
Icelandic: Bahamaeyjar (is)
Indonesian: Bahama
Interlingua: Bahamas
Irish: na Bahámaí, Comhlathas na mBahámaí m
Italian: Bahama f
Japanese: バハマ (Bahama)
Kalenjin: Pahama
Kamba: Mbaama
Kashmiri: बहामास‎‎
Kazakh: Багам аралдары pl (Bagam araldarı)
Khmer: បាហាម៉ា (km) (baahaamaa)
Kikuyu: Bahamas
Korean: 바하마 (Bahama)
Kyrgyz: Багама аралдары pl (Bagama araldarı)
Lao: ບາຮາມາດ (bā hā māt)
Latin: Insulae Bahamenses f pl
Latvian: Bahamas
Lithuanian: Bahamos (lt)

Luhya: Ebahama
Luo: Bahamas
Macedonian: Баха́ми (mk) pl (Bahámi), Баха́мски О́строви pl (Bahámski Óstrovi)
Malay: Bahamas
Maltese: Il-Baħamas
Manx: Ny Bahamaghyn f pl
Meru: Bahama
Mongolian: Багамын арлууд (Bagamyn arluud)
Nauruan: Bahamas
Norman: Bahames f pl
Northern Sami: Bahamas sullot
Norwegian: Bahamas (no)
Occitan: Baamas f pl
Ossetian: Багамӕтӕ (Bagamætæ)
Persian: باهاما‎‎ (bâhâmâ)
Polish: Bahamy (pl) pl
Portuguese: Bahamas (pt) f pl
Romanian: Bahamas (ro)
Russian: Бага́мы (ru) f pl (Bagámy), Бага́мские Острова́ m pl (Bagámskije Ostrová)
Rusyn: Бага́мы pl (Bahámŷ), Бага́мскы островы́ pl (Bahámskŷ ostrovŷ́)
Scottish Gaelic: na Bahàmas
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Бахами pl, Бахамска острва m pl

Roman: Bahami pl, Bahamska ostrva m pl
Sinhalese: බහමාස් (bahamās)
Slovak: Bahamy (sk)
Slovene: Bahámi (sl) m pl
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: Bahamy pl
Spanish: las Bahamas (es) f pl
Swahili: Bahama (sw)
Swedish: Bahamas (sv), Samväldet Bahamas
Tagalog: Bahamas (tl)
Tajik: Баҳамас (Bahamas)
Tatar: Багамалар pl (Bağamalar), Багама утраулары pl (Bağama utrauları)
Thai: บาฮามาส (th) (baa-haa-máas)
Tibetan: བ་ཧ་མཱ་སི (ba ha mā si)
Turkish: Bahamalar (tr) pl
Turkmen: Bagama Adalary
Ukrainian: Бага́ми f pl (Bahámy), Бага́мські Острови́ m pl (Bahámsʹki Ostrový)
Urdu: بہاماس‎‎ (bahāmās)
Uyghur: باھاما‎‎ (bahama)
Uzbek: Bagamalar (uz) pl, Bagama orollari pl
Vietnamese: Ba-ha-mát
Yiddish: באַהאַמאַס‎‎ (bahamas)
Yoruba: Bàhámásì

Breton

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas

Danish

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ba.a.mas/
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

Bahamas

German

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Proper noun

Bahamas pl (genitive Bahamas)

Bahamas

Interlingua

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas

Italian

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl (plural only)

Bahamas

Derived terms

bahamense

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas

Related terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas

Related terms

Portuguese

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

Bahamas (a country and archipelago in the Caribbean)

Spanish

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

Bahamas

Related terms

bahamés, bahamesa
bahameño, bahameña

Swedish

Proper noun

Bahamas n (genitive Bahamas)

Bahamas

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