Papua
- n.
- 巴布亚岛
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源说明
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.
释义
专有名词proper noun
- 1The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to New Guinea.
- 2The western part of New Guinea, currently part of Indonesia.
- 3A province of Indonesia.
名词noun
- 1datedA person indigenous to Papua.