obama
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
/oʊˈbɑ.mə/(US)
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/oʊˈbɑ.mə/(US) · /əʊˈbɑː.mə/
Definition of obama
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
- An African surname from Luo.
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- An African surname from Luo.
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An African surname from Luo.
“(The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)”
“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.””
- A city in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. See Wikipedia:Obama, Fukui.
- A Japanese surname.
- A samurai clan of feudal Japan.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Luo obam Luo Mobamder. English Obama A corruption of the Luo by-name Mobam (“born with a crooked back”), itself from Luo obam (“to lean or bend”).
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