Guinea

See also: guinea

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Guiné, which is of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɪniː/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪni

Proper noun

Guinea

  1. (historical geography) The coast of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
  2. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
  3. (derogatory US slang, ethnic slur) Someone of Italian descent in the United States.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

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Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ɡiˈnə.ə/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ɡiˈnɛ.ə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ɡiˈne.a/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Guinea f

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms


Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Guinea

  1. Guinea (a country in Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Guinea

  1. Guinea (a country in Africa)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡɪnɛa]
  • (file)

Proper noun

Guinea f

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Further reading

  • Guinea in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • Guinea in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Proper noun

Guinea

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms


Finnish

Etymology

From Portuguese Guiné.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡineɑ/, [ˈɡine̞ɑ]
  • Rhymes: -inea
  • Syllabification(key): Gui‧ne‧a

Proper noun

Guinea

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Guinea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Guinea
genitive Guinean
partitive Guineaa
illative Guineaan
singular plural
nominative Guinea
accusative nom. Guinea
gen. Guinean
genitive Guinean
partitive Guineaa
inessive Guineassa
elative Guineasta
illative Guineaan
adessive Guinealla
ablative Guinealta
allative Guinealle
essive Guineana
translative Guineaksi
instructive
abessive Guineatta
comitative
Possessive forms of Guinea (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person Guineani Guineamme
2nd person Guineasi Guineanne
3rd person Guineansa

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡiˈneːa/
  • (file)
  • Homophone: Guineer (some speakers)

Proper noun

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, [...].
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    • 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 [...]
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    • 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.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Derived terms


Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Guinea

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Guinea
accusative Guineát
dative Guineának
instrumental Guineával
causal-final Guineáért
translative Guineává
terminative Guineáig
essive-formal Guineaként
essive-modal
inessive Guineában
superessive Guineán
adessive Guineánál
illative Guineába
sublative Guineára
allative Guineához
elative Guineából
delative Guineáról
ablative Guineától
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Guineáé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Guineáéi
Possessive forms of Guinea
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Guineám
2nd person sing. Guineád
3rd person sing. Guineája
1st person plural Guineánk
2nd person plural Guineátok
3rd person plural Guineájuk

Derived terms

Compound words

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Guinea f

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Anagrams


Latin

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Guinea f sg (genitive Guineae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Guinea
Genitive Guineae
Dative Guineae
Accusative Guineam
Ablative Guineā
Vocative Guinea

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Guinea

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Guinea

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡiˈnea/ [ɡiˈne.a]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: Gui‧ne‧a

Proper noun

Guinea f

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)
    Synonym: República de Guinea

Derived terms


Swahili

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Guinea

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

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Swedish

Proper noun

Guinea n (genitive Guineas)

  1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)
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