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Bahrain

proper noun

  1. historical region encompassing the entire coastal strip of Eastern Arabia
  2. country on the Arabian peninsula
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bɑː(h)ˈɹeɪn/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الْبَحْرَيْن (al-baḥrayn, literally “the two seas”).

  1. An archipelago, island, and country in West Asia in the Persian Gulf. Official name: Kingdom of Bahrain. Capital: Manama.

    “Five of them — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — supply more than a third of the world’s urea, an important nitrogen fertilizer, and nearly a quarter of another one, ammonia.”