Obama
English
Etymology 1
Corruption of by-name Luo Mobam (“born with a crooked back”), itself from Luo obam (“to lean or bend”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Obama (plural Obamas)
- An African surname from Luo.
- 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.”
- Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States of America.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Translingual: Obamadon, Obamus, Etheostoma obama (spangled darter), Tosanoides obama, Caloplaca obamae (Obama lichen)
Translations
surname
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See also
Etymology 2
Transliteration of Japanese 小浜.
Proper noun
Obama (plural Obamas)
- A city in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. See Wikipedia:Obama, Fukui.
- A Japanese surname.
- 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
German
Etymology
Proper noun
Obama m (proper noun, strong, genitive Obamas)
- the 44th president of the USA; Obama
- Ich mag Obama (nicht).
- I (don't) like Obama.
Further reading
- “Obama” in Duden online
Japanese
Romanization
Obama
Portuguese
Etymology
From Luo.
Proper noun
Obama
- a surname from Luo
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Obama, from Luo [Term?].
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Obama m or f by sense
- A surname in English
Swahili
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Obama
- a surname from Luo
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