| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bahrain |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Bah·rain |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  bä-r n |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or Bah·rein |
| A country comprising an archipelago of low sandy islands in the Persian Gulf between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It was the first Arabian country to strike oil (1932). A British protectorate after 1861, Bahrain became independent in 1971. Manama, on Bahrain Island, the largest in the archipelago, is the capital. Population: 549,000. | | OTHER FORMS: | Bah·raini —ADJECTIVE & NOUN
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