Obama

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

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

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Obama (plural Obamas)

1. An African surname from Luo.
   1. Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States (2009–2017).

      Synonyms: (slang) Barry the Fairy, (slang) Bathhouse Barry

      • 2009 April 3, Helene Cooper, “Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 February 2022:

        (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, archived from the original on 17 February 2021:

        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.”

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

Transliteration of Japanese 小浜.

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.

• “Obama”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Obama”, in Merriam-Webster.com 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, 2011–present.

• aboma

Borrowed from English Obama.

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.

• “Obama” in Duden online

Obama

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

From Luo.

Obama

1. a surname from Luo

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

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

Obama m or f by sense

1. a surname in English
2. a surname of Equatorial Guinean usage

Borrowed from Luo [Term?].

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Obama

1. a surname from Luo