Bahamas

Etymology
Disputed; probably from or, via Spanish.

Usage notes

 * Like other country names, The Bahamas is usually construed as a singular noun:
 * Good
 * But because Bahama refers to an individual island, one can still describe the islands using Bahamas as a plural:
 * Good
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Translations

 * Afrikaans: Bahamas
 * Albanian: Bahama
 * Amharic: ባሃማስ
 * Arabic: اَلْبَهَامَا
 * Armenian: Բահամյան Կղզիներ, Բահամներ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: Бага́мы, Бага́мскія Астравы́
 * Bengali: বাহামা
 * Bhutanese: བཱ་ཧ་མས྄
 * Breton: Bahamas
 * Bulgarian: Баха́мски острови
 * Burmese: ဘဟားမား
 * Carpathian Rusyn: Бага́мы, Бага́мскы островы́
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ބަހާމަސް
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, Bahama saared
 * Farefare: Bahama-dõma, Bahama-tɩŋa
 * Finnish:, Bahamasaaret
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: בהאמה, איי בהאמה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: Bahamák,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: Bahamas
 * Irish: Bahámaí, Comhlathas na mBahámaí
 * Italian: Bahama
 * Japanese:
 * Kalenjin: Pahama
 * Kamba: Mbaama
 * Kashmiri: बहामास, بَہاماس
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: Bahamas
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: Багама аралдары
 * Lao: ບາຮາມາດ
 * Latin: Insulae Bahamenses
 * Latvian: Bahamas
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya: Ebahama
 * Luo: Bahamas
 * Macedonian:, Баха́мски О́строви
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: Baħamas
 * Manx: Bahamaghyn
 * Meru: Bahama
 * Mongolian:
 * Nauruan: Bahamas
 * Norman: Bahames
 * Northern Sami: Bahamas sullot
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: Baamas
 * Ossetian: Багамӕтӕ
 * Persian: باهاما
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, Бага́мские Острова́
 * Scottish Gaelic: na Bahàmas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Бахами, Бахамска острва
 * Roman: Bahami, Bahamska ostrva
 * Sinhalese: බහමාස්
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: Bahamy
 * Spanish: las
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: Баҳамас
 * Tatar: Багамалар, Багама утраулары
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བ་ཧ་མཱ་སི
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Bagama Adalary
 * Ukrainian: Бага́ми, Бага́мські Острови́
 * Urdu: بہاماس
 * Uyghur: باھاما
 * Uzbek:, Bagama orollari
 * Vietnamese: Ba-ha-mát
 * Yiddish: באַהאַמאַס
 * Yoruba: Bàhámásì

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
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