In the Carteret Islands, near Papua New Guinea, some people have already had to leave their homes because the seawater is washing around their houses.
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Papua
//ˈpaːpwə//
Synonyms for "papua"
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7 entriesTranslations
20 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بَابْوَا name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Armenian
1 entries- Պապուա name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Belarusian
1 entries- Па́пуа name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 巴布亞 /巴布亚 name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Finnish
2 entries- Papua name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
- Papua name (province of Indonesia)
French
1 entries- Papouasie name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Georgian
1 entries- პაპუა name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
German
1 entries- Papua name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Greek
1 entries- Παπουασία name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Irish
1 entries- Papua name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Japanese
1 entries- パプア name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Korean
1 entries- 파푸아 name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Latin
1 entries- Papua name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Marathi
1 entries- पापुआ name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Polish
1 entries- Papua name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Rarotongan
1 entries- Pāpua name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Russian
1 entries- Па́пуа name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Spanish
1 entries- Papúa name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Па́пуа name (the southern part of Papua New Guinea)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Most of the Melanesians living in Papua New Guinea have very curly hair, don't they?
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In Papua New Guinea, there are 850 different languages spoken by Papuans.
Source: tatoeba (522691)
The northern half of what is today Papua New Guinea was a German colony.
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