Bahia [ bah-ee -uh , buh - ] SHOW IPA
/ bɑˈi ə, bə- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
a coastal state of eastern Brazil. 216,130 sq. mi. (559,700 sq. km). Capital : Salvador.
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How to use Bahia in a sentence Since then, a number of rising Brazilian soccer players such as Víctor Cantillo of Cornithians, Flávio Medeiros of Bahia and Gabriel Barbosa of Flamengo have worn number 24 shirts.
For the first half of the century, demand was met by a trade circuit connecting the ports of the Bight of Benin to Salvador in Bahia .
Bahia Bakari was aboard an Airbus A310 with 152 others when it slammed into the water making an approach in poor weather.
Last June, a 14-year-old girl, Bahia Bakari, was the sole survivor of a crash in the Indian Ocean, off the Comoros Islands.
Meantime Bahia , actuated by the same spirit as Rio, had anticipated the revolution at that place.
It was faced with stone, on the recovery of Bahia from the Dutch, about the beginning of the last century.
Cachoeira, about fifty miles from Bahia , is a good town, where there is one English merchant resident.
Yet, I am happy to say, the Bahia press has lately actually printed a pamphlet against the slave trade.
The daring of this attempt has filled the Portuguese with astonishment and dismay, and they are now most willing to abandon Bahia .
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British Dictionary definitions for Bahia
Bahia
/ (bəˈhiːə , Portuguese bəˈiːə ) /
noun
a state of E Brazil, on the Atlantic coast. Capital: Salvador. Pop: 13 323 212 (2002). Area: about 562 000 sq km (217 000 sq miles)
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