Bahrain

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1/21/2022, 9:40 PM Mike C bahrain added (from user-submitted name 261094)
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4/22/2017, 11:43 PM anonymous

Type Country & Island
Usage Arabic, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Romanian, Catalan, Indonesian, Malay, Filipino, Tagalog
Scripts بحرين(Arabic)
Pronounced Pron. bah-RIEN(Arabic) bah-RAYN(English) ba-RIEN(German) bakh-RIEN(German) bə-RIEN(Catalan)

Meaning & History

Means "two seas" in Arabic, derived from بحر (bahr) meaning "sea" combined with the dual suffix ين (ayn). This is the name of a small island country in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia. In Arabic it is properly written with the definite article: البحرين (al-Bahrayn).