Guinea

From Portuguese Guiné +‎ -ia, which is of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪni/

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• Rhymes: -ɪni

Guinea

1. (historical) The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
3. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
   • 2025 May 8, Angela Giuffrida and Harriet Sherwood, “White smoke from Sistine Chapel chimney signals election of new pope”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Among the frontrunners before the conclave began were Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state; Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines; Péter Erdő, a traditionalist from Hungary; Robert Sarah, a cardinal from Guinea who criticised Francis’s papacy; and the moderate US cardinal Robert Prevost.

4. (derogatory US slang, ethnic slur) Someone of Italian descent in the United States.

• (historical region): Upper Guinea, Lower Guinea; Gold Coast, Pepper Coast, Grain Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast

• → Japanese: ギニア (Ginia)

• Countries of the world

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡiˈne.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡiˈne.a]

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Guinea f

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guineà
• Guinea Bissau
• Guinea Equatorial
• Nova Guinea

• guinea

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪnɛa]
• IPA^(key): [ˈɡviːnɛa]

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Guinea f (relational adjective guinejský, demonym Guinejec)

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• “Guinea”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Guinea”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Guinea”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guineaner
• guineansk

From Portuguese Guiné.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡineɑ/, [ˈɡine̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ineɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Gui‧ne‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): Gui‧nea

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈneːa/

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• Homophone: Guineer (some speakers)

Guinea n (proper noun, genitive Guineas or (optionally with an article) Guinea)

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)
   • 1835, Joh. Georg August Galletti's allgemeine Weltkunde oder geographisch-statistisch-historische Uebersicht aller Länder [...] Achte Auflage, verbessert und vermehrt von J. G. F. Cannabich, column 442:

     Balbi klassifizirt die sämtlichen afrikanischen Zungen auf nachstehende Art: [...] 3) Sprachen von Nigritien oder dem Negerlande, wohin er auch Senegambien und beide Guinea rechnet, [...].

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   • 1831, Wörterbuch der Naturgeschichte, dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Botanik, Mineralogie und Zoologie angemessen. Siebenter Band, page 137:

     Am besten kennt man in den beiden Guinea's die Fulah's, die Jolof's, die Sousou's, die Mandingo's, die Aschantie's, die Neger von der Küste von Ardra und Benin, die Bewohner der Küste Gabon [...]

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   • 1843, Joseph Russegger, Reisen in Europa, Asien und Afrika [...]. Zweiter Band. Reisen in Egypten, Nubien und Ost-Sudan. Erster Theil. Erste Reise durch Egypten und Nubien, page 8:

     [...] das Vorschreiten der Kolonien in Senegambien, in beiden Guinea's, am Vorgebirge der guten Hoffnung u. s. w.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈɡiːnɛɒ]
• Hyphenation: Gui‧nea
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa; official name: Guineai Köztársaság)

• IPA^(key): /ɡwiˈnɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: Gui‧nè‧a

Guinea f

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guineano
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guinea Equatoriale
• Nuova Guinea
• Papua Nuova Guinea

• guaine, iguane

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʷɪ.ne.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʷiː.ne.a]

Guinea f sg (genitive Guineae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Guinea (a country in West Africa)

First-declension noun, singular only.

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guineaner
• guineansk

• Ekvatorial-Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Ny-Guinea
• Papua Ny-Guinea

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guinean, guineanar
• guineansk

• Ekvatorial-Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Ny-Guinea
• Papua Ny-Guinea

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuiɲea]

Guinea f (genitive singular Guiney, declension pattern of žena)

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• “Guinea”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈnea/ [ɡiˈne.a]

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• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: Gui‧ne‧a

Guinea f

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

   Synonym: República de Guinea

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Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• IPA^(key): /ɡɵɪˈneːa/

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Guinea n (genitive Guineas)

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guinean
• guineansk
• guineanska

• Guinea in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH