New Guinea

English

Alternative forms

• Niugini, Niu Gini

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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

    • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (US) IPA^(key): [nu ˈɡɪn.i]

Proper noun

New Guinea

2. A large island in the Pacific Ocean north of Australia, in Oceania, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
4. (historical) A former dependent territory of Australia, from 1914 to 1975, occupying the northern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea.
5. (informal) Papua New Guinea: A country in Oceania.

Holonyms

• Melanesia

Derived terms

• German New Guinea
• New Guinea flightless rail
• New Guinean
• New Guinea singing dog
• Papua New Guinea
• Western 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 f
• 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: Nua-Guine f
• Italian: Nuova Guinea (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: Nyuu Gini
• Japanese: ニューギニア (ja) (Nyūginia)
• Khmer: ហ៊្គីណេថ្មី (hkiineetmii)
• Korean: 뉴기니 (Nyugini)
• Latin: Nova Guinea f
• Latvian: Jaungvineja f
• Lithuanian: Naujoji Gvinėja f
• Macedonian: Нова Гвине́ја f (Nova Gvinéja)
• Marathi: न्यू गिनी (nyū ginī), नवा गिनी (navā ginī)
• Marshallese: Nukne
• Norman: Nouvelle-Dginnée f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Ny-Guinea

  Nynorsk: Ny-Guinea

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

  Cyrillic: Нова Гвинеја f

  Latin: 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 (niu-gì-nii)
• Tok Pisin: Niugini
• Turkish: Yeni Gine (tr)
• Ukrainian: Нова́ Гвіне́я f (Nová Hvinéja), Нова́ Ґвіне́я f (Nová Gvinéja)