Papua

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] The territory was called papo ua gam sio (“nine village/region that is not united”).^[3]
• 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.^[4]

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

Papua

1. The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to New Guinea.
2. The western part of New Guinea, currently part of Indonesia.
3. A province of Indonesia.
   • 2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe‎^[4]:

     Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.

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.

   • 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.

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

• papau

Internationalism; see English Papua

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpuɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝puɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑpuɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Pa‧pu‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): Pa‧pua

Papua

1. Papua (Southern part of Papua New Guinea)
2. Papua (Province of Indonesia in the westernmost part of New Guinea)

Papua

1. New Guinea (a large island in the Pacific Ocean)
2. Papua (a province of Indonesia)
3. a region in Oceania, the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea

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

Papua f sg (genitive Papuae); first declension (New Latin)

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

First-declension noun, singular only.

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Papua

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

   Synonym: Guinea Mpya