Bahamas

See also: Baħamas and Bahama's

English

Alternative forms

• The Bahamas

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):

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Proper noun

the Bahamas

2. An archipelago and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

Usage notes

• 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 because Bahama refers to an individual island, one can still describe the islands using Bahamas as a plural:

   Many species of crab live on the Bahamas.

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 Kġziner), Բահամներ pl (Bahamner)
• Asturian: Les Bahames (ast)
• 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
• 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) 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: Bahama f
• 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: 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)
• 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) n
• Tagalog: Bahamas (tl)
• Tajik: Баҳамас (Bahamas)
• 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
• Yiddish: באַהאַמאַס (bahamas)
• Yoruba: Bàhámásì

See also

• Nassau
• (countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America

Breton

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Bahamas.

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas (a country in North America)

Danish

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• bahamaner
• bahamansk

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.a.mas/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bahamas f pl (plural only)

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

See also

• (countries of North America) pays de l'Amérique du Nord; Antigua-et-Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbade, Canada, Cuba, Dominique, États-Unis, Grenade, Haïti, Jamaïque, Mexique, République dominicaine, Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès, Saint-Vincent-et-Grenadines, Sainte-Lucie, Trinité-et-Tobago ^{(Category: fr:Countries in North America)}

Galician

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• bahamés

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

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

1. 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

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Italian

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl (plural only)

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

• bahamense

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• bahamaner
• bahamansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bahamas

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• bahaman, bahamanar
• bahamansk

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Baamas

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Bahamas.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈʁɐ̃.mɐs/ [baˈhɐ̃.mɐs], /baˈɐ̃.mɐs/

• (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/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈɐ.mɐʃ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈa.mɐʃ/

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Derived terms

• bahamense
• bahamês
• bahamiano

 

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈamas/ [baˈa.mas]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -amas
• Syllabification: Ba‧ha‧mas

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

• bahamés, bahamesa
• bahameño, bahameña

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bahamas n (genitive Bahamas)

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Related terms

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

Further reading

• Bahamas in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈhamas/ [bɐˈhaː.mɐs]
• Rhymes: -amas
• Syllabification: Ba‧ha‧mas

Proper noun

Bahamas (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜑᜋᜐ᜔)

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /baˈhamas/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /baˈha(ː)maz/

Proper noun

y Bahamas f

1. Bahamas (an archipelago and country in the Caribbean)

Coordinate terms

• (countries of North America) gwledydd Gogledd America; Antigwa a Barbiwda, y Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Ciwba, Dominica, Grenada, Gweriniaeth Dominica, Haiti, Jamaica, Mecsico, Sant Kitts-Nevis, Sant Lwsia, Sant Vincent a'r Grenadines, Trinidad a Thobago, Unol Daleithiau America

Derived terms

• Cymanwlad y Bahamas (“Commonwealth of the Bahamas”)