New Guinea

New Guinea

English

Proper noun

New Guinea

1. A large Oceanian island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
2. (historical) The northern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to Papua.
3. (informal) The nation more properly referred to as Papua New Guinea.

Holonyms

• Melanesia

Derived terms

• New Guinean
• Papua New Guinea

Translations

large island

Arabic: غِينِيَّا اَلْجَدِيدَة‎ f (ḡiniyyā l-jadīda) Belarusian: Но́вая Гвіне́я f (Nóvaja Hvinjéja) Bengali: নিউগিনি (niugini) Breton: Ginea Nevez Bulgarian: Но́ва Гвине́я (Nóva Gvinéja) Catalan: Nova Guinea f Chinese: Mandarin: 新幾內亞 (zh), 新几内亚 (zh) (Xīn Jīnèiyà) Czech: Nová Guinea f Danish: Ny Guinea Dutch: Nieuw-Guinea (nl) n Esperanto: Nov-Gvineo Estonian: Uus-Guinea Finnish: Uusi-Guinea (fi) French: Nouvelle Guinée f Galician: Nova Guinea f German: Neuguinea (de) n Greek: Νέα Γουινέα f (Néa Gouinéa) Hebrew: גינאה החדשה‎ f (ginea ha-khadasha) Hindi: न्यू गिनी (nyū ginī) Icelandic: Nýja-Gínea (is) Indonesian: Pulau Irian Irish: an Nua-Ghuine f Italian: Nuova Guinea (it) f Japanese: ニューギニア (Nyūginia) Khmer: ហ៊្គីណេថ្មី (giineetmii) Korean: 뉴기니 (Nyugini)

Latin: Nova Guinea f Latvian: Jaungvineja f Lithuanian: Naujoji Gvinėja f Macedonian: Нова Гвине́ја f (Nova Gvinéja) Marshallese: Nukne Norman: Nouvelle-Dginnée f Norwegian: Bokmål: Ny-Guinea Nynorsk: Ny-Guinea Polish: Nowa Gwinea (pl) f Portuguese: Nova Guiné f Romanian: Noua Guinee f Russian: Но́вая Гвине́я (ru) f (Nóvaja Gvinéja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Нова Гвинеја f Roman: Nova Gvineja (sh) f Slovak: Nová Guinea f Slovene: Nova Gvineja f Spanish: Nueva Guinea f Sundanese: Irian Swahili: Guinea Mpya Swedish: Nya Guinea (sv) Thai: นิวกินี Tok Pisin: Niugini Turkish: Yeni Gine (tr) Ukrainian: Нова́ Гвіне́я f (Nová Hvinéja)