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).[1][2]
  • 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.[3]

Pronunciation

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

Translations

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

References
  1. Bilveer Singh (2008) Papua: geopolitics and the quest for nationhood‎, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 26
  2. Tarmidzy Thamrin (2001) Boven Digoel: lambang perlawanan terhadap kolonialisme‎ (in Indonesian), Ciscom-Cottage, page 424
  3. Sollewijn Gelpke, J.H.F. (1993), “On the origin of the name Papua”, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, volume 149, issue 2, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 318–332

Anagrams

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

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
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