Bermuda

See also: bermuda

English

Etymology

From the name of Juan de Bermudez, the Spanish explorer who discovered the islands in 1515. See Bermúdez.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɚˈmjuːdə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəˈmjuːdə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Bermuda

1. An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean, 580 nautical miles (1074 kilometers) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

   Synonym: (former name) Somers Isles

   • 1613, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes‎^[1], volume I, London, →OCLC, page 632:

     Sir Thomas Gates was appointed Lieutenant Generall ; Sir George Sommers Admirall of Virginia and were ſent to reſide there as Gouernours of the Colonie. But the Sea Venture, wherein the two Knights, and Captaine Newport, with a hundred and fiftie perſons ſayled, after long conflict with the two angrie Elements, was ſent to be impriſoned in Bermuda, where betweene two Rocks the Ship ſplit, the people eſcaping to Land.

Derived terms

• Bermuda cedar
• Bermuda green
• Bermuda juniper
• Bermuda onion
• Bermuda petrel
• Bermuda rig
• Bermuda shorts
• Bermuda Triangle
• Pacific Bermuda Triangle

 

Related terms

• Bermudan
• Bermudian

Translations

island group

• Albanian: Bermuda
• Arabic: جُزُر بَرْمُودَا f pl (juzur barmūdā)

  Egyptian Arabic: برمودا f (bermūdā)

• Asturian: Les Bermudes (ast)
• Belarusian: Бэрму́ды f pl (Bermúdy), Бэрму́дзкія вы́спы f pl (Bermúdzkija výspy)
• Breton: Bermuda
• Bulgarian: Берму́да f (Bermúda)
• Catalan: Bermudes (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百慕達／百慕达 (zh) (Bǎimùdá), 百慕大 (zh) (Bǎimùdà), 百慕大群島／百慕大群岛 (zh) (Bǎimùdà qúndǎo)

• Cornish: Bermuda
• Czech: Bermudy (cs) pl
• Danish: Bermuda
• Dutch: Bermuda (nl)
• Esperanto: Bermudo, Bermudoj
• Estonian: Bermuda (et)
• Finnish: Bermuda (fi)
• French: Bermudes (fr) f pl
• Galician: Bermuda (gl)
• German: Bermuda (de) n
• Greek: Βερμούδες (el) f pl (Vermoúdes)
• Hebrew: ברמודה (Bermuda)
• Hindi: बेर्म्युडा (bermyuḍā)
• Hungarian: Bermuda (hu), Bermudák pl, Bermuda-szigetek pl
• Icelandic: Bermúda
• Indonesian: Bermuda (id)
• Interlingua: Bermuda
• Irish: Beirmiúda, na Beirmiúdaí pl
• Italian: Bermude f pl
• Japanese: バーミューダ (Bāmyūda), バミューダ (Bamyūda)
• Korean: 버뮤다 (ko) (Beomyuda), 버뮤더 (ko) (Beomyudeo) (North Korea)
• Latvian: Bermudu salas
• Lithuanian: Bermudai (lt)
• Macedonian: Берму́ди f pl (Bermúdi), Берму́да f (Bermúda)
• Malay: Bermuda
• Maltese: Bermuda
• Maori: Pāmura
• Norman: Bermude f
• Norwegian: Bermuda
• Persian: برمودا (barmudâ)
• Polish: Bermudy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Bermudas (pt) f pl
• Romanian: Bermuda (ro), Bermude f
• Russian: Берму́ды (ru) m pl (Bermúdy), Берму́дские острова́ m pl (Bermúdskije ostrová)
• Scottish Gaelic: Bermuda
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бермуди pl

  Roman: Bermudi pl

• Slovak: Bermudy pl
• Slovene: Bermuda f
• Spanish: Bermudas (es) f pl
• Swedish: Bermuda (sv) n
• Thai: เบอร์มิวดา (bəə-miu-dâa)
• Turkish: Bermuda (tr)
• Ukrainian: Берму́ди m pl (Bermúdy), Берму́дські острови́ (uk) m pl (Bermúdsʹki ostrový)
• Vietnamese: Béc-mu-đa
• Volapük: Bärmuduäns (vo)

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} Bermuda (sh) f

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Further reading

• Bermuda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

Bermuda (uncountable)

1. A pale, slightly blue shade of green

   Bermuda:  

Anagrams

• rumbaed

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bermuda n (proper noun, genitive Bermudas or (optionally with an article) Bermuda)

1. Bermuda (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean)

Declension

Declension of Bermuda [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Bermuda
genitive	eines	des	Bermudas
dative	einem	dem	Bermuda
accusative	ein	das	Bermuda

Derived terms

• Bermuder

Latin

Proper noun

Bermūda f sg (genitive Bermūdae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Bermuda (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Bermūda
genitive	Bermūdae
dative	Bermūdae
accusative	Bermūdam
ablative	Bermūdā
vocative	Bermūda
locative	Bermūdae

Swedish

Etymology

From the name of Juan de Bermudez, the Spanish explorer who discovered the islands in 1515. See Bermúdez.

Proper noun

Bermuda n (genitive Bermudas)

2. Bermuda (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean)

Related terms

• bermudisk (“Bermudian”, adjective)
• bermudier c (“Bermudian male”)
• bermudiska c (“Bermudian female”)