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 (UK):

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• 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 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)
• Dzongkha: 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
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Bahama's n 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
• Norwegian: Bahamas (no)
• Occitan: Bahamas f pl
• Ossetian: Багамӕтӕ (Bagamætæ)
• Persian: باهاما (bâhâmâ)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Baahamas pl
• Polish: Bahamy (pl) nvir 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)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: Bahamas sullot

• Scottish Gaelic: na Bahàmas
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бахами pl, Бахамска острва m pl

  Latin: 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)
• 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 (uk) m pl (Bahámsʹki Ostrový)
• Urdu: بہاماس (bahāmās)
• Uyghur: باھاما (bahama)
• Uzbek: Bagamalar (uz) pl, Bagama orollari pl
• Vietnamese: Ba-ha-mát
• Yiddish: באַהאַמאַס (bahamas)

See also

• Nassau

countries in North America (appendix)edit

• 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 f pl

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

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Bahamas.

Proper noun

Bahamas

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

Danish

Proper noun

Bahamas

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

Related terms

• bahamaner
• bahamansk

French

Pronunciation

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /ba.a.mas/, /ba.a.ma/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ba.a.mɑːs/, /ba.a.mɑː/

• Audio (France):

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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Proper noun

Bahamas f pl (plural only)

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

See also

countries in North America: pays de l'Amérique du Nord (appendix)edit

• 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

Galician

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl (plural only)

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

Related terms

• bahamés

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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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

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɐɣɐˈmɐs]
• Rhymes: -ɐs
• Syllabification: Ba‧ha‧màs

Proper noun

Bahamàs

1. accusative of Bahãmos

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): /baˈɾɐ̃.mɐs/, /baˈɐ̃.mɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈɾɐ̃.mɐs/, /baˈɐ̃.mɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /baˈɾɐ̃.mɐʃ/, /baˈɐ̃.mɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈɾɐ.mas/, /baˈɐ.mas/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈɐ.mɐʃ/

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

• Hyphenation: Ba‧ha‧mas

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl (plural only)

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

Derived terms

• baamês
• bahamense
• bahamiano

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈamas/ [baˈa.mas]

• Audio:

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

Proper noun

Bahamas f pl (plural only)

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

Related terms

• bahamés, bahamesa
• bahameño, bahameña

See also

countries in North America: países del América del Norte/Norteamérica (appendix)edit

• Antigua y Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Canadá
• Cuba
• Dominica
• Estados Unidos
• Granada
• Haití
• Jamaica
• México
• República Dominicana
• San Cristóbal y Nieves
• San Vicente y las Granadinas
• Santa Lucía
• Trinidad y Tobago

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”)

See also

countries in North America: Nordamerikas länder (appendix)edit

• Antigua och Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Dominica
• Dominikanska republiken
• El Salvador
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Kanada
• Kuba
• Mexiko
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Saint Kitts och Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent och Grenadinerna
• Trinidad och Tobago
• USA

Further reading

• “Bahamas”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• 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; official name: Cymanwlad y Bahamas)

Coordinate terms

countries in North America: gwledydd Gogledd America (appendix)edit

• Antigwa a Barbiwda
• 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
• y Bahamas