adj
Meaning 1
From, or pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
Papuan
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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US: /ˈpɑpuən/
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adj
Meaning 2
Pertaining to the Papuan group of languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 3
A geographical grouping of languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and its neighboring islands, as opposed to Austronesian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
Meaning 5
of or relating to Papua or its people or language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Papuan native crafts
- Papuan vowels
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noun
Meaning 6
any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Papuan language
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: natural language, tongue
noun
Meaning 7
a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Indonesian
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English Papua Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Papuan From Papua + -an.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: papuánský — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Finnish: papualainen — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Finnish: papuauusiguinealainen — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- French: papou — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- French: papoue — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Hungarian: pápua — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Irish: Papuach — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Norwegian Bokmål: papuansk — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Norwegian Nynorsk: papuansk — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Polish: papuaski — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Polish: papuański — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Portuguese: papua — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Romanian: papuaș — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Romanian: papua-neoguineean — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Russian: папуа́сский (papuásskij) — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Swedish: papuansk — pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Armenian: պապուաս (papuas) — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Czech: Papuánec — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Czech: Papuánka — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Esperanto: papuo — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Esperanto: papuino — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Finnish: papualainen — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Finnish: papuauusiguinealainen — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- French: Papou — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- French: Papoue — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- German: Papua — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Hungarian: pápua — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Irish: Papuach — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Norwegian Bokmål: papuaner — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Norwegian Nynorsk: papuan — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Norwegian Nynorsk: papuanar — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Portuguese: papua — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Romanian: papuaș — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Romanian: papuașă — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Russian: папуа́с (papuás) — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Russian: папуа́ска (papuáska) — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
- Swedish: papuan — Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea
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