Disputed; probably fromSpanishbajamar(“shallow sea”) orTaínoba ha ma(“big upper middle land”), via Spanish.
the Bahamas
- Anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean. Official name:Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
- Like other country names,The Bahamas is usually construed as a singular noun:
The Bahamas is a nice place to live.
The Bahamas are a horrible place to live.
- But becauseBahama refers to an individual island, one can still describe the islands usingBahamas as a plural:
Many species of crab live on the Bahamas.
country in the Caribbean
- Afrikaans:Bahamas pl
- Albanian:Bahama
- Amharic:ባሃማስ(bahamas)
- Arabic:اَلْبَهَامَا f pl(al-bahāmā),باهاما f pl(bāhāmā)
- Armenian:Բահամյան Կղզիներ pl(Bahamyan Kġziner),Բահամներ pl(Bahamner)
- Asturian:Bahames (ast) f pl
- Azerbaijani:Baham adaları (az) pl
- Belarusian:Бага́мы f pl(Bahámy),Бага́мскія Астравы́ m pl(Bahámskija Astravý)
- Bengali:বাহামা(bahama)
- Bhutanese:བཱ་ཧ་མས྄(bā ha mas)
- Breton:Bahamas f pl
- Bulgarian:Баха́мски острови m pl(Bahámski ostrovi)
- Burmese:ဘဟားမား(bha.ha:ma:)
- Carpathian Rusyn:Бага́мы pl(Bahámŷ),Бага́мскы островы́ pl(Bahámskŷ ostrovŷ́)
- Catalan:Bahames (ca) m pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:巴哈馬 /巴哈马 (zh)(Bāhāmǎ)
- Czech:Bahamy (cs) f pl
- Danish:Bahamas (da)
- Dhivehi:ބަހާމަސް(bahāmas)
- Dutch:Bahama's (nl) pl
- Esperanto:Bahamoj (eo) pl
- Estonian:Bahama (et),Bahama saared pl
- Farefare:Bahama-dõma,Bahama-tɩŋa
- 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:Bahamas (it) f pl,Bahama f pl
- Japanese:バハマ (ja)(Bahama)
- Kalenjin:Pahama
- Kamba:Mbaama
- Kashmiri:बहामास(bahāmās),بَہاماس
- Kazakh:Багам аралдары (kk) 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 (ms)
- Maltese:Baħamas m
- 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:Bahamas f pl
- Ossetian:Багамӕтӕ(Bagamætæ)
- Persian:باهاما(bâhâmâ)
- Pitcairn-Norfolk:Baahamas pl
- 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)
- Scottish Gaelic: naBahàmas
- 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: lasBahamas (es) f pl
- Swahili:Bahama (sw)
- Swedish:Bahamas (sv) n
- Tagalog:Bahamas (tl)
- Tajik:Баҳамас(Bahamas)
- Tamil:பஹாமாஸ்(pahāmās),பகாமாஸ்(pakāmās),பகாமாசு(pakāmācu)
- Tatar:Багамалар pl(Bağamalar),Багама утраулары pl(Bağama utrawları)
- 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
- West Frisian:Bahama's n pl
- Yiddish:באַהאַמאַס(bahamas)
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Bahamas f pl
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Borrowed fromSpanishBahamas.
Bahamas
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Bahamas
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Bahamas f pl (plural only)
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Bahamas f pl (plural only)
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
die Bahamas pl (proper noun,plural only,usually definite)
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Declension ofBahamas [pl-only]
| plural |
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| def. | noun |
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| nominative | die | Bahamas |
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| genitive | der | Bahamas |
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| dative | den | Bahamas |
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| accusative | die | Bahamas |
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Bahamas
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Bahamas f pl (plural only)
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Bahamàs
- accusative ofBahãmos
Bahamas
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Bahamas
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishBahamas.
Bahamas f pl (plural only)
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
- IPA(key): /baˈamas/[baˈa.mas]
- Rhymes:-amas
- Syllabification:Ba‧ha‧mas
Bahamas f pl (plural only)
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Bahamas n (genitiveBahamas)
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
Bahamas (Baybayin spellingᜊᜑᜋᜐ᜔)
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean)
y Bahamas f
- Bahamas (anarchipelago andcountry in theCaribbean; official name:Cymanwlad y Bahamas)