Papua

See also: papua

English

Etymology

There are three theories about its origin:

• From Malay pepuah (“curly (of hair)”) for the natives of the island of New Guinea.
• From Ternatean/Tidorean 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 papwa (“the land below [the sunset]”), referring to the islands west of the Bird's Head, as far as Halmahera.

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

• French: Papouasie (fr) f
• German: Papua (de) n
• Irish: Papua
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• Latin: Papua f
• Spanish: Papúa

See also

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

Anagrams

• papau

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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

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Swahili

Proper noun

Papua

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

   Synonym: Guinea Mpya