Papuan

//ˈpɑpuən//

Synonyms for "papuan" (2 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

3 entries

derived

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derived from

1 entries

is a

4 entries

related to

3 entries

Translations

37 translations across 15 languages.

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Armenian

1 entries
  • պապուաս noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Czech

3 entries
  • papuánský adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • Papuánec noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • Papuánka noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • papuino noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuo noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Finnish

4 entries
  • papualainen adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuauusiguinealainen adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papualainen noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuauusiguinealainen noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

French

4 entries
  • papou adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papoue adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • Papou noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • Papoue noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

German

1 entries
  • Papua noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • pápua adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • pápua noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Irish

2 entries
  • Papuach adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • Papuach noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • papuansk adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuaner noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Norwegian Nynorsk

3 entries
  • papuansk adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuan noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuanar noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Polish

2 entries
  • papuaski adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuański adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • papua adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papua noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Romanian

4 entries
  • papua-neoguineean adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuaș adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuaș noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuașă noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Russian

3 entries
  • папуа́сский adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • папуа́с noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • папуа́ска noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Swedish

2 entries
  • papuansk adj (pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea)
  • papuan noun (Someone from Papua or Papua New Guinea)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

People have variety. My preferred model of anthropology has four subspecies of the human species: Mongoloid (variants Sundadont, Sinodont, and Super-Sinodont), Caucasoid (variants Nordic and Mediterranean), Negroid (variants Congoid and Capoid), and Australoid (variants Veddoid, Negrito, Papuan, Melanesian, Aborigine).

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As a society, there are really three blending elements in the Philippines: the Sundadonts, the Sinodonts, and the Caucasoids. My family is such a blend. Mongoloids really comprise three variants: the Sundadonts, the Sinodonts, and the Super-Sinodonts, these respectively being the Pacific Islanders, the East Asians, and the Amerindians of the Americas. The Filipino Caucasoid element is commonly Mediterranean. There are four human subspecies in my preferred model of anthropology: the Mongoloids, the Caucasoids, the Negroids, and the Australoids. Caucasoid has variants Nordic and Mediterranean; Negroid has variants Congoid and Capoid; and Australoid has variants Veddoid, Negrito, Papuan, Melanesian, and Aborigine. Migrants into the Philippines might have carried various bits of other strains. For example, Super-Sinodonts, Amerindians, might have reached the Philippines with the Manila-Acapulco Galleons during the Spanish Empire.

Source: tatoeba (10729738)

Denny Christian, a 28-year-old from Jakarta studying accountancy in Australia, worries that the Papuan affair could make life difficult for Indonesians in the country.

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There are about a thousand Papuan languages in existence.

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