Bahia

[ bah-ee-uh, buh- ]

noun

1. a coastal state of eastern Brazil. 216,130 sq. mi. (559,700 sq. km). : Salvador.
2. a former name of Salvador.

Bahia

/ bəˈiːə; bəˈhiːə /

noun

1. 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)
2. See San Salvador
   the former name of San Salvador

Example Sentences

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.

From Ozy

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.

From Quartz

Bahia Bakari was aboard an Airbus A310 with 152 others when it slammed into the water making an approach in poor weather.

From The Daily Beast

Last June, a 14-year-old girl, Bahia Bakari, was the sole survivor of a crash in the Indian Ocean, off the Comoros Islands.

From The Daily Beast

Meantime Bahia, actuated by the same spirit as Rio, had anticipated the revolution at that place.

From Project Gutenberg

It was faced with stone, on the recovery of Bahia from the Dutch, about the beginning of the last century.

From Project Gutenberg

Cachoeira, about fifty miles from Bahia, is a good town, where there is one English merchant resident.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet, I am happy to say, the Bahia press has lately actually printed a pamphlet against the slave trade.

From Project Gutenberg

The daring of this attempt has filled the Portuguese with astonishment and dismay, and they are now most willing to abandon Bahia.

From Project Gutenberg