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]
• 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]

• (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. A province of Indonesia.

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.

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

• papau

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

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

Papua f sg (genitive Papuae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Papua

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