Panama

See also: Appendix:Variations of "panama"

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English

Wikivoyage

Alternative forms

• Panamá

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Panamá, of unknown origin. Possibly from a Chibchan language such as Kuna, or another indigenous language of the region (such as Cueva, which is barely attested and is now extinct).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpænəmɑː/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈpanəmɑː/

  • Audio (Standard Southern British):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpænəmɑ/, /-mə/

  • Audio (US); /ˈpænəmɑ/:

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  • Audio (US); /ˈpænəmə/:

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpænəmɐː/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈpanəma/

Proper noun

Panama

2. A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Panama.

   A man, a plan, a canal — Panama!

   • 2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     Economists at Capital Economics wrote in an August note that dollarized countries El Salvador, Panama and Ecuador show “markedly lower inflation than elsewhere in the region.”

Derived terms

• New Panamax
• Panama Canal
• Panama City
• Panama fever
• Panama hat
• Panamanian
• Panama orange
• Panama Papers
• Panama Red
• Panama rubber
• Panama rubber tree
• Panama sole
• Panama weave
• Panamax
• post-Panamax

Descendants

• → Chinese: 巴拿馬 / 巴拿马 (Bānámǎ)
• → Rarotongan: Panama

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Panama
• Albanian: Panama f
• Amharic: ፓናማ (panama)
• Arabic: بَنَمَا f (banamā)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَنَمَا f (banama)

• Armenian: Պանամա (hy) (Panama)
• Asturian: Panamá (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Panama (az)
• Basque: Panama (eu)
• Belarusian: Пана́ма f (Panáma)
• Bengali: পানামা (bn) (panama)
• Breton: Panama
• Bulgarian: Пана́ма f (Panáma)
• Burmese: ပနားမား (pa.na:ma:)
• Catalan: Panamà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 巴拿馬 / 巴拿马 (baa¹ naa⁴ maa⁵)

  Hakka: 巴拿馬 / 巴拿马 (Pâ-nâ-mâ)

  Hokkien: 巴拿馬 / 巴拿马 (zh-min-nan) (Pa-ná-má)

  Mandarin: 巴拿馬 / 巴拿马 (zh) (Bānámǎ)

• Corsican: Panamà f
• Czech: Panama (cs) f
• Danish: Panama (da) n
• Dhivehi: ޕެނަމާ (penamā)
• Dutch: Panama (nl) n
• Esperanto: Panamo (eo)
• Estonian: Panama (et)
• Finnish: Panama (fi)
• French: Panama (fr) m, Panamá (fr) m
• Galician: Panamá (gl)
• Georgian: პანამა (ṗanama)
• German: Panama (de) n
• Greek: Παναμάς (el) m (Panamás)
• Gujarati: પનામા (panāmā)
• Hebrew: פָּנָמָה f (panama)
• Hindi: पनामा (hi) m (panāmā)
• Hungarian: Panama (hu)
• Icelandic: Panama (is)
• Indonesian: Panama (id)
• Interlingua: Panama
• Irish: Panama m
• Italian: Panama (it) f
• Japanese: パナマ (ja) (Panama)
• Kalenjin: Panama
• Kamba: Panama
• Kannada: ಪನಾಮಾ (panāmā)
• Kazakh: Панама (kk) (Panama)
• Khmer: ប៉ាណាម៉ា (km) (paanaamaa)
• Kikuyu: Panama
• Korean: 파나마 (ko) (Panama), 빠나마 (ko) (Ppanama) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Панама (ky) (Panama)
• Lao: ປານາມາ (pā nā mā)
• Latvian: Panama (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Panama (lt) f
• Luhya: Panama
• Luo: Panama
• Macedonian: Пана́ма (mk) f (Panáma)
• Malay: Panama
• Malayalam: പനാമ (panāma)
• Maltese: il-Panama
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Панам (Panam)

• Norman: Panama m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Panama (no) n

• Occitan: Panamà (oc) m
• Odia: ପାନାମା (pānāmā)
• Ossetian: Панамӕ (Panamæ)
• Pashto: پاناما f (pānāmā), پانامه (ps) f (pānāmâ)
• Persian: پاناما (fa) (pânâmâ)
• Polish: Panama (pl) f
• Portuguese: Panamá (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪਨਾਮਾ (panāmā)
• Rarotongan: Panama
• Romanian: Panama (ro) f
• Russian: Пана́ма (ru) f (Panáma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Па̀нама f

  Latin: Pànama (sh) f

• Sinhalese: පැනමාව (pænamāwa)
• Slovak: Panama f
• Slovene: Panama (sl) f
• Spanish: Panamá (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: Panama
• Swahili: Panama (sw)
• Swedish: Panama (sv) n
• Tagalog: Panama
• Tajik: Панама (Panama)
• Tatar: Панама (Panama)
• Telugu: పనామా (te) (panāmā)
• Thai: ปานามา (th) (bpaa-naa-maa)
• Tibetan: པ་ན་མ (pa na ma)
• Turkish: Panama (tr)
• Turkmen: Panama
• Ukrainian: Пана́ма (uk) f (Panáma)
• Urdu: پانامہ m (pānāmā), پاناما m (pānāmā)
• Uyghur: پاناما (panama)
• Uzbek: Panama (uz)
• Vietnamese: Pa-na-ma (vi)
• Yiddish: פּאַנאַמאַ n (panama)
• Yoruba: Panama

Noun

Panama (plural Panamas)

1. A Panama hat.

Translations

Panama hat — see Panama hat

See also

countries in Central America (appendix)edit

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Further reading

• Panama on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Anampa

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		Панама
Arabic		پاناما

Proper noun

Panama (definite accusative Panamanı, plural Panamalar)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Panama

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Crimean Tatar

Proper noun

Panama

1. (Romania) Panama (a country in Central America)

References

• Murat, Taner (2011), “Panama”, in Dicționar tătar crimean – român / Kîrîm Tatarşa – Kazakşa Sózlík [Crimean Tatar – Romanian dictionary]‎^[2], Charleston: CreateSpace, page 319c

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpanama]

Proper noun

Panama f (relational adjective panamský, demonym Panaman or Panamec)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Declension

Declension of Panama (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Panama
genitive	Panamy
dative	Panamě
accusative	Panamu
vocative	Panamo
locative	Panamě
instrumental	Panamou

Further reading

• “Panama”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Panama”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Panama”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

From Spanish Panamá.

Proper noun

Panama

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• panamaner
• panamansk

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Panama n

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑnɑmɑ/, [ˈpɑnɑmɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑmɑ
• Hyphenation: Pa‧na‧ma

Proper noun

Panama (genitive Panama, partitive Panamat)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Declension

Declension of Panama (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Panama	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Panama
genitive			—
partitive		Panamat	—
illative		Panamasse	—
inessive		Panamas	—
elative		Panamast	—
allative		Panamale	—
adessive		Panamal	—
ablative		Panamalt	—
translative		Panamaks	—
terminative		Panamani	—
essive		Panamana	—
abessive		Panamata	—
comitative		Panamaga	—

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish Panamá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑnɑmɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝nɑ̝mɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Pa‧na‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): Pa‧na‧ma

Proper noun

Panama

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Declension

Inflection of Panama (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Panama	—
genitive		Panaman	—
partitive		Panamaa	—
illative		Panamaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Panama	—
accusative	nom.	Panama	—
	gen.	Panaman
genitive		Panaman	—
partitive		Panamaa	—
inessive		Panamassa	—
elative		Panamasta	—
illative		Panamaan	—
adessive		Panamalla	—
ablative		Panamalta	—
allative		Panamalle	—
essive		Panamana	—
translative		Panamaksi	—
abessive		Panamatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Panama (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Panamani — accusative nom. Panamani — gen. Panamani genitive Panamani — partitive Panamaani — inessive Panamassani — elative Panamastani — illative Panamaani — adessive Panamallani — ablative Panamaltani — allative Panamalleni — essive Panamanani — translative Panamakseni — abessive Panamattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Panamasi — accusative nom. Panamasi — gen. Panamasi genitive Panamasi — partitive Panamaasi — inessive Panamassasi — elative Panamastasi — illative Panamaasi — adessive Panamallasi — ablative Panamaltasi — allative Panamallesi — essive Panamanasi — translative Panamaksesi — abessive Panamattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Panamamme — accusative nom. Panamamme — gen. Panamamme genitive Panamamme — partitive Panamaamme — inessive Panamassamme — elative Panamastamme — illative Panamaamme — adessive Panamallamme — ablative Panamaltamme — allative Panamallemme — essive Panamanamme — translative Panamaksemme — abessive Panamattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Panamanne — accusative nom. Panamanne — gen. Panamanne genitive Panamanne — partitive Panamaanne — inessive Panamassanne — elative Panamastanne — illative Panamaanne — adessive Panamallanne — ablative Panamaltanne — allative Panamallenne — essive Panamananne — translative Panamaksenne — abessive Panamattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Panamansa — accusative nom. Panamansa — gen. Panamansa genitive Panamansa — partitive Panamaansa — inessive Panamassaan Panamassansa — elative Panamastaan Panamastansa — illative Panamaansa — adessive Panamallaan Panamallansa — ablative Panamaltaan Panamaltansa — allative Panamalleen Panamallensa — essive Panamanaan Panamanansa — translative Panamakseen Panamaksensa — abessive Panamattaan Panamattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• panamahattu
• panamalainen
• panamanpuumuura

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Panama n (proper noun, genitive Panamas or (optionally with an article) Panama)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• Panamaer
• Panamahut
• panamaisch
• Panamakanal

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒnɒmɒ]
• Hyphenation: Pa‧na‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

Proper noun

Panama

1. Panama (a country in Central America; official name: Panamai Köztársaság)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Panama	—
accusative	Panamát	—
dative	Panamának	—
instrumental	Panamával	—
causal-final	Panamáért	—
translative	Panamává	—
terminative	Panamáig	—
essive-formal	Panamaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Panamában	—
superessive	Panamán	—
adessive	Panamánál	—
illative	Panamába	—
sublative	Panamára	—
allative	Panamához	—
elative	Panamából	—
delative	Panamáról	—
ablative	Panamától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Panamáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Panamáéi	—

Possessive forms of Panama

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Panamám	—
2nd person sing.	Panamád	—
3rd person sing.	Panamája	—
1st person plural	Panamánk	—
2nd person plural	Panamátok	—
3rd person plural	Panamájuk	—

Derived terms

• panamai

Compound words

• Panama-csatorna
• Panamaváros

See also

countries in Central America: Közép-Amerika országai (appendix)edit

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Salvador

Irish

Proper noun

Panama m (genitive Phanama)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)
2. Panama City (the capital and largest city of Panama)

Derived terms

• Panamach (“Panamanian”, adjective)
• Panamach m (“Panamanian”)

Related terms

• (hata) panama (“Panama hat”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Panama

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Panama	Phanama	bPanama

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “Panama”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Panama”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Italian

Alternative forms

• Panamà

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.na.ma/
• Rhymes: -anama
• Hyphenation: Pà‧na‧ma

Proper noun

Panama f

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• panamense

Japanese

Romanization

Panama

1. Rōmaji transcription of パナマ (“Panama”)

Latin

Proper noun

Panama f sg (genitive Panamae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Panama (a country in Central America)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Panama
genitive	Panamae
dative	Panamae
accusative	Panamam
ablative	Panamā
vocative	Panama
locative	Panamae

Latvian

Proper noun

Panama f (4th declension)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Declension

Declension of Panama (4th)

	singular	plural
nominative	Panama	—
genitive	Panamas	—
dative	Panamai	—
accusative	Panamu	—
instrumental	Panamu	—
locative	Panamā	—
vocative	Panama	—

Related terms

• panamietis m, panamiete f

Lithuanian

Panamà

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Panamá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɐnɐˈmɐ]
• Hyphenation: Pa‧na‧ma

Proper noun

Panamà f (uncountable, relational adjective panamiẽtiškas, demonym panamiẽtis, female demonym panamiẽtė) stress pattern 2

1. Panama (a country in Central America; official name: Panãmos Respùblika)
2. Panama City (the capital and largest city of Panama)

Declension

Declension of Panamà

	singular
nominative	Panamà
genitive	Panãmos
dative	Panãmai
accusative	Panãmą
instrumental	Panamà
locative	Panãmoje
vocative	Panãma

Related terms

• panamà

See also

countries in Central America: Centri̇̀nės Amèrikos valstýbės (appendix)edit

• Beli̇̀zas
• Gvatemalà
• Hondū̃ras
• Kòsta Rikà
• Nikaragvà
• Panamà
• Salvadòras

Further reading

• “Panama (valstybė)” in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija [Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia]
• “Panama (miestas)” in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija [Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia]

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Panama

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

See also

• panamaner
• panamansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Panama

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

See also

• panaman, panamanar
• panamansk

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈna.ma/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: Pa‧na‧ma

Proper noun

Panama f (related adjective panamski)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)
3. Panama City (the capital and largest city of Panama)

Declension

Declension of Panama

	singular
nominative	Panama
genitive	Panamy
dative	Panamie
accusative	Panamę
instrumental	Panamą
locative	Panamie
vocative	Panamo

Derived terms

nouns

• Panamczyk
• panamczyk
• Panamka
• panamka

See also

countries in Central America: kraje Ameryki Środkowej (appendix)edit

• Belize
• Gwatemala
• Honduras
• Kostaryka
• Nikaragua
• Panama
• Salwador

Further reading

• “Panama”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Rarotongan

Etymology

Borrowed from English Panama and Spanish Panama.

Proper noun

Panama

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

References

“Panama”, in Dictionary of Cook Islands Languages, 2016–2026

Romanian

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Panama f

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• panamez m, panameză f

Further reading

• “Panama”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǎnama/
• Hyphenation: Pa‧na‧ma

Proper noun

Pànama f (Cyrillic spelling Па̀нама, relational adjective pànamskī, demonym Panámac, female demonym Pànāmka)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Declension

Declension of Panama

	singular
nominative	Panama
genitive	Paname
dative	Panami
accusative	Panamu
vocative	Panamo
locative	Panami
instrumental	Panamom

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /panama/, [ˈpanama]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: Pa‧na‧ma

Proper noun

Panama f

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Further reading

• “Panama”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pàːnama/

Proper noun

Pánama f

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Pánama
genitive	Páname
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Pánama
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Páname
dative (dajȃlnik)	Pánami
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Pánamo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Pánami
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Pánamo

Related terms

• Pánamec / Pánamka
• pánamski

References

• “Panama”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Panama”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Swedish

Proper noun

Panama n (genitive Panamas)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• panaman
• panamansk
• panamanska

See also

countries in Central America: Centralamerikas länder (appendix)edit

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama

References

• “Panama”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Panamá (“Panama”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /panaˈma/ [pɐ.n̪ɐˈma]
    • Rhymes: -a
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpanama/ [ˌpaː.n̪ɐˈma] (English influence)
    • Rhymes: -anama
• Syllabification: Pa‧na‧ma

Proper noun

Panamá or Pánamá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈᜋ)

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Anagrams

• pamana

Turkish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Panama

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Declension

Declension of Panama

	singular
nominative	Panama
accusative	Panama'yı
dative	Panama'ya
locative	Panama'da
ablative	Panama'dan
genitive	Panama'nın

Possessive forms of Panama

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Panama'm	Panamalarım Panama'larım
senin (your)	Panama'n	Panamaların Panama'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Panama'sı	Panamaları Panama'ları
bizim (our)	Panama'mız	Panamalarımız Panama'larımız
sizin (your)	Panama'nız	Panamalarınız Panama'larınız
onların (their)	Panama'sı Panamaları Panama'ları	Panamaları Panama'ları

Derived terms

• Panamalı

See also

countries in Central America: Orta Amerika ülkeleri (appendix)edit

• Belize
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Kosta Rika
• Nikaragua
• Panama

Uzbek

Other scripts

Arabic	Afghan Uzbek	—
	Yangi Imlo	پنمە
Cyrillic		Панама
Latin		Panama

Proper noun

Panama

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Welsh

Alternative forms

• Panamâ

Proper noun

Panama f

1. Panama (a country in Central America)

Coordinate terms

countries in Central America: gwledydd Canolbarth America (appendix)edit

• Belîs
• Costa Rica
• El Salfador
• Gwatemala
• Hondwras
• Nicaragwa
• Panama

Derived terms

• het Banama (“Panama hat”)