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).[1][2]
  • From Biak sup i papwa (“the land below [the sunset]”), referring to the islands west of the Bird's Head, as far as Halmahera.[3]

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

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. Jason Macleod (2015) Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua‎, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN

Anagrams

Latin

Proper noun

Papua f (genitive Papuae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Papua

Inflection

First declension.

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

Swahili

Proper noun

Papua

  1. Papua New Guinea (country in Oceania)


This Swahili entry was created from the translations listed at Papua New Guinea. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see Papua in the Swahili Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) August 2009

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