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発音

• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpaːpwə/

固有名詞

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:

     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.

派生語

名詞

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.

参考

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

参照

アナグラム

• papau

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.