Obama

English

Etymology 1

Barack Obama

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊˈbɑ.mə/
• (British) IPA^(key): /əʊˈbɑː.mə/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Obama (plural Obamas)

1. An African surname from Luo.
   1. Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States of America.
      • 2009 April 3, Helene Cooper, “Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

        (The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)

      • 2020 December 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

        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.”

Derived terms

• BHO
• Bushbama
• Joebama
• Mike Obama
• Obamabot
• Obamacan
• ObamaCare
• 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

 

Descendants

• Translingual: Obamadon, Obamus, Etheostoma obama (spangled darter), Tosanoides obama, Caloplaca obamae (Obama lichen)

Translations

surname

• Arabic: أُوبَامَا (ʔubāmā)
• Armenian: Օբամա (Ōbama)
• Belarusian: Аба́ма (Abáma)
• Bulgarian: Оба́ма (Obáma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奧巴馬／奥巴马 (zh) (Àobāmǎ); (Taiwan) 歐巴馬／欧巴马 (zh) (Ōubāmǎ)

• Dutch: Obama
• Finnish: Obama
• French: Obama (fr)
• Georgian: ობამა (obama)
• German: Obama
• Greek: Ομπάμα (el) (Ompáma)
• Hawaiian: ʻOpama
• Hebrew: אובמה (obama)
• Hindi: ओबामा (obāmā)
• Japanese: オバマ (Obama)
• Korean: 오바마 (obama)
• Lao: ໂອບາມາ (ʼō bā mā)
• Macedonian: Обама (Obama)
• Marathi: ओबामा (obāmā)
• Persian: اوباما (obâmâ)
• Portuguese: Obama
• Russian: Оба́ма (ru) (Obáma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Обама

  Roman: Obama

• Spanish: Obama
• Swahili: Obama (sw)
• Thai: โอบามา (oo-baa-mâa)
• Ukrainian: Оба́ма (Obáma)
• Urdu: اوبامہ (obāma)
• Vietnamese: Ô-ba-ma

See also

• Bathhouse Barry

Etymology 2

Transliteration of Japanese 小浜.

Proper noun

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.

Further reading

• “Obama”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Obama”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Obama”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Obama”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• aboma

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English Obama.

Proper noun

Obama m (proper noun, strong, genitive Obamas)

1. the 44^th president of the USA; Obama

   Ich mag Obama (nicht).

   I (don't) like Obama.

Further reading

• “Obama” in Duden online

Japanese

Romanization

Obama

1. Rōmaji transcription of おばま
2. Rōmaji transcription of オバマ

Portuguese

Etymology

From Luo.

Proper noun

Obama

1. a surname from Luo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Obama, from Luo [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈbama/ [oˈβ̞a.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: O‧ba‧ma

Proper noun

Obama m or f by sense

1. A surname in English

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Luo [Term?].

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Proper noun

Obama

1. a surname from Luo