Barbados

Barbados

See also: barbados

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/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Barbados

1. An island and country in the Caribbean.

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

country in the Caribbean

Amharic: ባርቤዶስ (barbedos) Antillean Creole: Barbad Arabic: بَرْبَادُوس‎ m (barbādos, barbēdos, barbadōs) Arawak: Ichirouganaim Armenian: Բարբադոս (hy) (Barbados) Azerbaijani: Barbados (az) Belarusian: Барба́дас m (Barbádas) Bengali: বার্বাডোস (bn) (barbaḍos) 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) 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 (Barbados) Khmer: បាបាដុស (km) (baabaadoh) Kikuyu: Babados Korean: 바베이도스 (ko) (Babeidoseu) Kyrgyz: Барбадос (ky) (Barbados) Lao: ບາກບາດ (bāk bāt) Latin: Barbāta f Latvian: Barbadosa f Lithuanian: Barbadosas (lt) m Luhya: Ebabados Luo: Babedos Macedonian: Барбадос (mk) m (Barbados) Maltese: il-Barbados Maori: 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) Romanian: Barbados (ro) n Russian: Барба́дос (ru) m (Barbádos) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Барбадос m Roman: Barbados (sh) m Spanish: Barbados (es) Swahili: Barbados (sw) Swedish: Barbados (sv) Tajik: Барбадос (Barbados) Tatar: Барбадос (Barbados) Thai: บาร์เบโดส (th) (baa-bee-dóos) Turkish: Barbados (tr) Ukrainian: Барба́дос (uk) m (Barbádos) Uyghur: باربادوس‎ (barbados) Uzbek: Barbados (uz) Vietnamese: Bác-ba-đốt Volapük: please add this translation if you can Yoruba: Bábádósì

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).

See also

• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States

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Asturian

Proper noun

Barbados m

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

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Breton

Proper noun

Barbados ?

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

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /bəɾˈba.dos/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bərˈba.dus/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /baɾˈba.dos/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Barbados f

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

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (a country in North America)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Barbados m

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

Related terms

• barbadoský
• Barbadosan

Further reading

• Barbados in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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Danish

Proper noun

Barbados

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

Related terms

• barbadier
• barbadisk

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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.]

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Estonian

Proper noun

Barbados

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

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Finnish

Etymology

From Portuguese Barbados.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑrbɑdos/, [ˈbɑrbɑdo̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑrbɑdos
• Syllabification^(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	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Barbadoksetta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Barbados (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Barbadokseni	Barbadoksemme
2nd person	Barbadoksesi	Barbadoksenne
3rd person	Barbadoksensa

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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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)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Barbados

1. Barbados (a country in North America)

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

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Barbados

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

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Italian

Proper noun

Barbados f

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

Derived terms

• barbadiano

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Barbados

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

Related terms

• barbader, barbadier
• barbadisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Barbados

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

Related terms

• barbadar
• barbadisk

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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

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

adjective

• barbadoski

 

nouns

• Barbadoska
• Barbadosyjczyk
• Barbadosyjka
• Barbadoszczyk

 

Further reading

• Barbados in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Barbados in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

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/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baɻˈba.dos/

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

Proper noun

Barbados f or m pl

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

Derived terms

• barbadiano

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Barbados m

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Barbádos m (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

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarbados]

Proper noun

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

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

References

• Barbados in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Spain)

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

Proper noun

Barbados ?

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

Related terms

• barbadense

See also

• Bridgetown

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Barbados

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

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Swedish

Etymology

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

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”)

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Turkish

Proper noun

Barbados

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

Declension

declension of Barbados

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Barbados
accusative (belirtme)	Barbados'u
dative (yönelme)	Barbados'a
locative (bulunma)	Barbados'ta
ablative (çıkma)	Barbados'tan
genitive (tamlayan)	Barbados'un

    possessive of Barbados

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

See also

• (countries of North America) Kuzey Amerika ülkesi; Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, Antigua ve Barbuda, Bahamalar, Barbados, Dominika, Dominik Cumhuriyeti, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaika, Kanada, Küba, Meksika, Saint Kitts ve Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent ve Grenadinler, Trinidad ve Tobago,

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Welsh

Proper noun

Barbados f

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

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Barbados	Farbados	Marbados	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.