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 ”), referring to the islands (Raja Ampat) west of the Bird's Head, as far as Halmahera.^[4]

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

English Wikipedia has articles on:

Territory of Papua and Papua (province)

Wikipedia Wikipedia

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.

   • 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
• provinces of Indonesiaedit

  • Aceh
  • Bali
  • Bangka Belitung Islands
  • Banten
  • Bengkulu
  • Central Java
  • Central Kalimantan
  • Central Papua
  • Central Sulawesi
  • East Java
  • East Kalimantan
  • East Nusa Tenggara
  • Gorontalo
  • Highland Papua
  • Jakarta
  • Jambi
  • Lampung
  • Maluku
  • North Kalimantan
  • North Maluku
  • North Sulawesi
  • North Sumatra
  • Papua
  • Riau
  • Riau Islands
  • Southeast Sulawesi
  • South Kalimantan
  • South Papua
  • South Sulawesi
  • South Sumatra
  • Special Region of Yogyakarta
  • West Java
  • West Kalimantan
  • West Nusa Tenggara
  • West Papua
  • West Sulawesi
  • West Sumatra

• papau

Internationalism; see English Papua

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpuɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑpuɑ
• 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)

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Papua (disambiguasi)

Wikipedia ^id

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