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Obama

UK/əʊˈbɑː.mə//oʊˈbɑ.mə/

Obama proper noun: an African surname from Luo.

obama: an African surname from Luo
Image: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun (1)

Obama (plural Obamas)

  1. An African surname from Luo.
    1. Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States (2009–2017).
      • (The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)2009 April 3, Helene Cooper, “Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022
      • From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of...2020 December 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2021

Proper noun (2)

Obama (plural Obamas)

  1. A city in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. See Wikipedia:Obama, Fukui.
  2. A Japanese surname.
  3. A samurai clan of feudal Japan.

Obama meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Arabic

Obama in Hindi

surname
ओबामा obāmā

Obama in Marathi

surname
ओबामा obāmā

Obama in Urdu

surname
اوبامہ obāma

Obama in Arabic

surname
أُوبَامَا ʔubāmā
More languagesFewer languages
Obama in Persian
اوباما obâmâ
Obama in Thai
โอบามา oo-baa-mâa
Obama in Vietnamese
Ô-ba-ma

Synonyms of Obama

Forms of Obama

pluralObamas

Origin of Obama

A corruption of the Luo by-name Mobam (“born with a crooked back”), itself from Luo obam (“to lean or bend”).

Transliteration of Japanese 小浜.

Words formed from Obama

Phrases with Obama

Questions about Obama

What does Obama mean?
Obama means an African surname from Luo.
What is Obama in Hindi?
Obama in Hindi is ओबामा (obāmā). See Obama meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Obama?
Obama is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Obama?
Obama is pronounced /oʊˈbɑ.mə/ (US).

Words near Obama in the dictionary

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  2. Obaid
  3. Obaids
  4. obais
  5. obake
  6. Obama
  7. Obama Care
  8. Obama mania
  9. Obama Phone
  10. Obama Phones
  11. Obama-can

Source and license

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