Panama is the narrow country whose famous canal joins two oceans. Travel to Panama, the Panama Canal, eastern Panama.
The canal cuts about thirteen thousand kilometres off the voyage round South America, and ships are lifted twenty-six metres by locks to cross a lake. Because the isthmus twists, a ship going from the Atlantic to the Pacific travels south-east. A Panama hat is made in Ecuador.
1nounpanamaA country in Central America.
“Ships sail through the canal in Panama to travel between the Atlantic and the Pacific.”
panama is a country.
Spanish
Panamá
English
Panama
English, today
panama
Panama Spanish Panamá, of unknown origin. Possibly from a cba - language such as cuk -, or another indigenous language of the region (such as Cueva, which is barely attested and is now extinct).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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