Papua

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• Australian: /ˈpaːpwə/
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• CMU ARPABET: P AE1 P Y UW0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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). The territory was called papo ua gam sio (“nine village/region that is not united”). * From Biak sup i babwa (“the land below [the sunset]”), referring to the islands (Raja Ampat) west of the Bird's Head, as far as Halmahera.

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بَابْوَا (bābwā) — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Armenian: Պապուա — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Belarusian: Па́пуа (Pápua) — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Chinese Mandarin: 巴布亞 /巴布亚 (Bābùyà) — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Finnish: Papua — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• French: Papouasie — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Georgian: პაპუა (ṗaṗua) — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• German: Papua — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Greek: Παπουασία (Papouasía) — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Irish: Papua — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Japanese: パプア — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Korean: 파푸아 — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Latin: Papua — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Marathi: पापुआ (pāpuā) — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Polish: Papua — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Rarotongan: Pāpua — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Russian: Па́пуа (Pápua) — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Spanish: Papúa — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Ukrainian: Па́пуа (Pápua) — the southern part of Papua New Guinea
• Finnish: Papua — province of Indonesia