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obama
English
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Etymology 1
thumb|Barack Obama
en Luo :der luo:Mobam 1
A corruption of the en luo - by-name luo Mobam born with a crooked back, itself from en luo obam to lean or bend.
Pronunciation
en /oʊˈbɑ.mə/ US
en /əʊˈbɑː.mə/ British
en En-us-Obama.ogg US
Proper noun
s
en African Luo.
Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States (2009–2017).
en Barry the Fairy Bathhouse Barry slang slang
en 2009-04-03 Helene Cooper Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results w:The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/world/europe/03assess.html (The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.) https://web.archive.org/web/20220226155500/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/world/europe/03assess.html
en Michiko Kakutani Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy w:The New York Times 2020-12-08 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/books/barack-obama-promised-land-reading-writing.html 0362-4331 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 faith.” https://web.archive.org/web/20210217220308/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/books/barack-obama-promised-land-reading-writing.html
Derived terms
en Nobama Obamaism Obamania Obamite BHO Mike Obama Bushbama Joebama Obamabot ObamaCare Obamacan Obamacon Obamacrat Obama-esque Obamagate Obamageddon Obamaite Obamaitis Obamamania Obaman Obamanation Obamanomics Obama phone Obama-rama Obamatard Obamaton Obamaworld Obamna Obamunism Obamunist Obiden Obomber Obongo Obozo Obummer Ohomo Onigger Obamaland
Descendants
Translingual: Obamadon genus, mul Obamus, Etheostoma obama species (spangled darter), Tosanoides obama species, Caloplaca obamae species (Obama lichen)
Translations
surname
Arabic: ar أُوبَامَا ʔubāmā
Armenian: hy Օբամա
Belarusian: be Аба́ма
Bulgarian: bg Оба́ма m f
Cherokee: chr ᎣᏆᎹ oquama
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 奧巴馬 Àobāmǎ; Taiwan cmn 歐巴馬 Ōubāmǎ
Dutch: nl Obama
Finnish: fi Obama
French: fr Obama
Georgian: ka ობამა
German: de Obama
Greek: el Ομπάμα
Hawaiian: haw ʻOpama
Hebrew: he אובמה obama
Hindi: hi ओबामा
Japanese: ja オバマ Obama
Korean: ko ^오바마
Lao: lo ໂອບາມາ
Macedonian: mk Обама
Marathi: mr ओबामा
Persian: fa اوباما obâmâ
Portuguese: pt Obama
Russian: ru Оба́ма
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Обама
Latin: sh Obama
Spanish: es Obama
Swahili: sw Obama
Thai: th โอบามา
Ukrainian: uk Оба́ма
Urdu: ur اوبامہ obāma
Vietnamese: vi Ô-ba-ma
Etymology 2
en ja 小浜.
Proper noun
s
en city pref/Fukui c/Japan. See Wikipedia:Obama, Fukui.
en Japanese.
A samurai clan of feudal Japan.
Translations
city in Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Chinese: zh 小濱
Japanese: ja 小浜 おばま, Obama
Further reading
Anagrams
en aabmo aboma
en Individuals Barack Obama
German
de:Barack +
Etymology
de :bor en:Obama
de en Obama.
Pronunciation
de De-Obama.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
m
the 44th president of the USA; Obama
de Ich mag Obama (nicht). I (don't) like Obama.
Further reading
Japanese
Romanization
おばま
オバマ
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :uder luo:- + 1
Proper noun
pt proper noun
pt Luo
Spanish
Etymology
es en Obama, from es luo.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
mfbysense
es en surname
es Equatorial Guinean
Swahili
Etymology
sw luo.
Pronunciation
sw Sw-ke-Obama.flac Kenya
Proper noun
sw proper noun
sw Luo