Papua

See also: papua

English

Etymology

There are three theories:

• From Malay pepuah (“curly (of hair)”) for the natives of the island of New Guinea.
• From Ternate/Tidore papo ua (“not united; not coalesced”), referring to the territory that geographically was far away from the Sultanate of Tidore (and thus not united).
• From Biak sup i babwa (“the land below [the sunset]”), referring to the islands (Raja Ampat) west of the Bird's Head, as far as Halmahera.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːpwə/

Proper noun

Papua

1. The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to New Guinea.
2. A province of Indonesia.

Derived terms

• Gulf of Papua
• Papuan
• Papua New Guinea
• West Papua

 

Translations

the southern part of Papua New Guinea

• Arabic: بَابْوَا‎ f (bābwā)
• Armenian: Պապուա (Papua)
• Belarusian: Па́пуа f (Pápua)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴布亞／巴布亚 (zh) (Bābùyà)

• French: Papouasie (fr) f
• Georgian: პაპუა (ṗaṗua)
• German: Papua (de) n
• Greek: Παπουασία f (Papouasía)
• Irish: Papua
• Japanese: パプア (Papua)
• Korean: 파푸아 (Papua)
• Latin: Papua f
• Rarotongan: Pāpua
• Russian: Па́пуа f (Pápua)
• Spanish: Papúa
• Ukrainian: Па́пуа f (Pápua)

Noun

Papua (plural Papuas or Papua)

1. (dated) A person indigenous to Papua.
   • 1841, The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-Maritime Journal, page 447:

     The Papuas are so termed in the Malay language, from their extreme darkness, approaching to black. These people form by far the largest portion of the islanders on the coast; their height is generally about five feet six inches […]

   • 1856, The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, page 502:

     The Papua are more numerous in the Philippine Islands than anywhere else, with the exception of New Guinea.

See also

• Irian Jaya
• New Guinea
• West Irian
• West Papua

Anagrams

• papau

Indonesian

Proper noun

Papua

1. New Guinea (A large Oceanian island in the Pacific Ocean)
2. Papua (A province of Indonesia)
3. Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea

See also

• Irian (historical)
• Nugini (only in set phrases)

Latin

Proper noun

Papua f sg (genitive Papuae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Papua

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Papua
Genitive	Papuae
Dative	Papuae
Accusative	Papuam
Ablative	Papuā
Vocative	Papua

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Papua

1. (uncommon) The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea (country in Oceania)

   Synonym: Guinea Mpya