Bermuda

See also: bermuda

English

Etymology

Named after Spanish navigator Juan de Bermúdez (1450–c. 1520). See more at Bermúdez.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəˈmjuː.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəɹˈmjuː.də/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Bermuda

2. 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, 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.

   • 2016 April 25, Madison Park, “Coast Guard rescues man running in a bubble in the ocean, again”, in CNN‎:

     An ultra-marathoner’s attempt to “run” from Florida to Bermuda in an inflatable bubble was cut short when the Coast Guard towed him back to land – for the second time.

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) (Taiwan), 百慕大 (zh) (Bǎimùdà), (mainland China), 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 (ja) (Bāmyūda), バミューダ (ja) (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: Bermudi m pl 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) Welsh: Bermwda f, Bermiwda f, Bermuda f

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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 (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

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

2. 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

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Bermuda

Wikipedia ^la

Etymology

Borrowed from English Bermuda.

Proper noun

Bermūda f sg (genitive Bermūdae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

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

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

Bermuda

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

Borrowed from English Bermuda.

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”)

Welsh

Welsh Wikipedia has an article on:

Bermuda

Wikipedia ^cy

Alternative forms

• Bermiwda, Bermwda

Etymology

Borrowed from English Bermuda.

Proper noun

Bermuda f

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

Related terms

• Bermwdaidd (“Bermudian”, adjective)
• Bermwdiad (“Bermudian person”)