Bahamas
/bəˈhɑː.məz/
Bahamas proper noun: an archipelago and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
Proper noun
- An archipelago and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
Bahamas meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Bahamas in Hindi
- country in the Caribbean
- बहामास bahāmās
Bahamas in Tamil
- country in the Caribbean
- பஹாமாஸ் pahāmās, பகாமாஸ் pakāmās, பகாமாசு pakāmācu
Bahamas in Urdu
- country in the Caribbean
- بہاماس bahāmās
Bahamas in Bengali
- country in the Caribbean
- বাহামা bahama
More languagesFewer languages
- Bahamas in Kannada
- ಬಹಾಮಾಸ್
- Bahamas in Sinhala
- බහමාස් bahamās
- Bahamas in Tagalog
- Bahamas
- Bahamas in Arabic
- اَلْبَهَامَا al-bahāmā, باهاما bāhāmā
- Bahamas in Malay
- Bahamas
- Bahamas in Indonesian
- Bahama
- Bahamas in Persian
- باهاما bâhâmâ
- Bahamas in Thai
- บาฮามาส baa-haa-máas
- Bahamas in Vietnamese
- Ba-ha-mát
- Bahamas in Myanmar
- ဘဟားမား bha.ha:ma:
- Dhivehi
- ބަހާމަސް bahāmas
- Kashmiri
- बहामास bahāmās, بَہاماس
- Dzongkha
- བཱ་ཧ་མས྄ bā ha mas
Forms of Bahamas
| alternative form | The Bahamas |
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Origin of Bahamas
Disputed; probably from Spanish baja mar (“shallow sea”) or Taíno ba ha ma (“big upper middle land”), via Spanish.
Words formed from Bahamas
Phrases with Bahamas
Questions about Bahamas
- What does Bahamas mean?
- Bahamas means an archipelago and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
- What is Bahamas in Hindi?
- Bahamas in Hindi is बहामास (bahāmās). See Bahamas meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Bahamas?
- Bahamas is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Bahamas?
- Bahamas is pronounced /bəˈhɑː.məz/ (UK).
Words near Bahamas in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Bahamas (page history and authors); Bahamas (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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