Bahamas

See also: Baħamas and Bahama's

English

Etymology

Disputed; probably from Spanish baja mar (“shallow sea”) or Taíno 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

An archipelago and country in the Caribbean. Official names: The Bahamas and 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

Afrikaans: Bahamas
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／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 (ka) (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 (id)
Interlingua: Bahamas
Irish: na Bahámaí, Comhlathas na mBahámaí m
Italian: Bahama f
Japanese: バハマ (ja) (Bahama)
Kalenjin: Pahama
Kamba: Mbaama
Kashmiri: बहामास (bahāmās), بَہاماس‎
Kazakh: Багам аралдары pl (Bagam araldary)
Khmer: បាហាម៉ា (km) (baahaamaa)
Kikuyu: Bahamas
Korean: 바하마 (ko) (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 (mn) (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, Baamas (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 (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Bahamas.

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas (a country in North America)

Danish

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

French

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl (plural only)

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Galician

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

bahamés

German

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Proper noun

die Bahamas pl (proper noun, plural only, usually definite)

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Declension

Declension of Bahamas [pl-only]

	plural
	def.	noun
nominative	die	Bahamas
genitive	der	Bahamas
dative	den	Bahamas
accusative	die	Bahamas

Interlingua

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Italian

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl (plural only)

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

bahamense

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

bahamaner
bahamansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bahamas

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

bahaman, bahamanar
bahamansk

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Baamas

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈʁɐ̃.mɐs/ [baˈhɐ̃.mɐs], /baˈɐ̃.mɐs/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /baˈʁɐ̃.mɐʃ/ [baˈχɐ̃.mɐʃ], /baˈɐ̃.mɐʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈʁɐ.mas/ [baˈhɐ.mas], /baˈɐ.mas/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈɐ.mɐʃ/

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

bahamense
bahamiano

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baˈamas/ [baˈa.mas]
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -amas
Syllabification: Ba‧ha‧mas

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

bahamés, bahamesa
bahameño, bahameña

Swedish

Proper noun

Bahamas n (genitive Bahamas)

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

bahamansk (“Bahamian”, adjective)
bahaman c (“Bahamian male”)
bahamanska c (“Bahamian female”)

Welsh

Pronunciation

(North Wales) IPA^(key): /baˈhamas/
(South Wales) IPA^(key): /baˈhaːmaz/, /baˈhamaz/

Proper noun

y Bahamas f

Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

Cymanwlad y Bahamas (“Commonwealth of the Bahamas”)