New Guinea

English

Alternative forms

• Niugini
• Papua
• Niu Gini

Pronunciation

• enPR: n(y)o͞o gĭnʹ-ē, IPA^(key): /n(j)uː ˈɡɪn.i/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌnjuː ˈɡɪ.ni/
  • (UK) [njuː ˈɡɪn.i]

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  • (US) [nu ˈɡɪn.i]

Proper noun

New Guinea

1. A large Oceanian island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
2. (historical) The northern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to Papua.
4. (informal) The nation more properly referred to as Papua New Guinea.

Holonyms

• Melanesia

Derived terms

• New Guinean
• Papua New Guinea

Translations

large island

• Arabic: غِينِيَّا اَلْجَدِيدَة‎ f (ḡiniyyā l-jadīda)
• Armenian: Նոր Գվինեա (Nor Gvinea)
• Belarusian: Но́вая Гвіне́я f (Nóvaja Hvinjéja), Но́вая Гвінэ́я f (Nóvaja Hvinéja) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: নিউগিনি (niugini)
• Breton: Ginea Nevez
• Bulgarian: Но́ва Гвине́я (Nóva Gvinéja)
• Catalan: Nova Guinea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新幾內亞／新几内亚 (zh) (Xīn Jīnèiyà)

• Czech: Nová Guinea (cs) f
• Danish: Ny Guinea
• Dutch: Nieuw-Guinea (nl) n
• Esperanto: Nov-Gvineo
• Estonian: Uus-Guinea
• Finnish: Uusi-Guinea (fi)
• French: Nouvelle-Guinée (fr) f
• Galician: Nova Guinea (gl) f
• German: Neuguinea (de) n
• Greek: Νέα Γουινέα f (Néa Gouinéa)
• Hebrew: גינאה החדשה‎ f (ginea ha-khadasha)
• Hindi: न्यू गिनी (nyū ginī), नया गिनी m (nayā ginī)
• Hiri Motu: Niu Gini
• Hungarian: Új-Guinea (hu)
• Icelandic: Nýja-Gínea (is)
• Indonesian: Papua (id), Pulau Papua, Irian (id), Pulau Irian, Nugini (rare), Pulau Nugini (rare)
• Irish: an Nua-Ghuine f
• Italian: Nuova Guinea (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: Nyuu Gini
• Japanese: ニューギニア (Nyūginia)
• Khmer: ហ៊្គីណេថ្មី (hkiineetmii)
• Korean: 뉴기니 (Nyugini)
• Latin: Nova Guinea f
• Latvian: Jaungvineja f
• Lithuanian: Naujoji Gvinėja f
• Macedonian: Нова Гвине́ја f (Nova Gvinéja)
• Marshallese: Nukne
• Norman: Nouvelle-Dginnée f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Ny-Guinea

  Nynorsk: Ny-Guinea

• Polish: Nowa Gwinea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Nova Guiné f
• Rarotongan: Nūkini
• Romanian: Noua Guinee f
• Russian: Но́вая Гвине́я (ru) f (Nóvaja Gvinéja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нова Гвинеја f

  Roman: Nova Gvineja (sh) f

• Slovak: Nová Guinea f
• Slovene: Nova Gvineja f
• Spanish: Nueva Guinea f
• Sundanese: Papua, Irian
• Swahili: Guinea Mpya
• Swedish: Nya Guinea (sv)
• Thai: นิวกินี
• Tok Pisin: Niugini
• Turkish: Yeni Gine (tr)
• Ukrainian: Нова́ Гвіне́я f (Nová Hvinéja), Нова́ Ґвіне́я f (Nová Gvinéja)