Bahia (a state of the Northeast Region, Brazil; capital: Salvador)
çekim: çoğul bahias
köken: Shortened from Bahia de Todos os Santos (“Bay of All Saints”), after a bay on the state’s coast. In turn, bahia is an archaic spelling of baía (“bay”). The name of the state was specially mentioned as an exception in the Brazilian Orthographic Form of 1943, which otherwise removed ⟨h⟩ within words. Notably, derived terms such as baiano (previously bahiano) did not receive this treatment. Although…