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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese Guiné, which is of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea
- (historical) The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
- A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
- (derogatory US slang, ethnic slur) Someone of Italian descent in the United States.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (historical region): Upper Guinea, Lower Guinea; Gold Coast, Pepper Coast, Grain Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from Guinea
- Equatorial Guinea
- French Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guinean
- Guinea arrowroot
- Guinea corn
- guinea fowl, guineafowl
- guinea grains
- guinea hen weed
- guinea keet
- Guinea pepper
- Guinea peach
- Proto-Trans-New Guinea
- guinea pig, guinea piglet
- Guinea plum
- Guinea wheat
- guinea worm
- guinea-worm disease
- Lower Guinea
- New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea
- Portuguese Guinea
- Spanish Guinea
- Upper Guinea
Translations
[edit]short form of the Republic of Guinea
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See also
[edit]- Countries of the world
- (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]
Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea f
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Central Huasteca Nahuatl
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Central Nahuatl
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea f (related adjective guinejský, demonym Guinejec)
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Guinea”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “Guinea”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “Guinea”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Danish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Derived terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese Guiné.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Guinea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Guinea | — | |
genitive | Guinean | — | |
partitive | Guineaa | — | |
illative | Guineaan | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Guinea | — | |
accusative | nom. | Guinea | — |
gen. | Guinean | ||
genitive | Guinean | — | |
partitive | Guineaa | — | |
inessive | Guineassa | — | |
elative | Guineasta | — | |
illative | Guineaan | — | |
adessive | Guinealla | — | |
ablative | Guinealta | — | |
allative | Guinealle | — | |
essive | Guineana | — | |
translative | Guineaksi | — | |
abessive | Guineatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]compounds
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea n (proper noun, genitive Guineas or (optionally with an article) Guinea)
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
- 1835, Joh. Georg August Galletti's allgemeine Weltkunde oder geographisch-statistisch-historische Uebersicht aller Länder [...] Achte Auflage, verbessert und vermehrt von J. G. F. Cannabich, column 442:
- Balbi klassifizirt die sämtlichen afrikanischen Zungen auf nachstehende Art: [...] 3) Sprachen von Nigritien oder dem Negerlande, wohin er auch Senegambien und beide Guinea rechnet, [...].
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1831, Wörterbuch der Naturgeschichte, dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Botanik, Mineralogie und Zoologie angemessen. Siebenter Band, page 137:
- Am besten kennt man in den beiden Guinea's die Fulah's, die Jolof's, die Sousou's, die Mandingo's, die Aschantie's, die Neger von der Küste von Ardra und Benin, die Bewohner der Küste Gabon [...]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1843, Joseph Russegger, Reisen in Europa, Asien und Afrika [...]. Zweiter Band. Reisen in Egypten, Nubien und Ost-Sudan. Erster Theil. Erste Reise durch Egypten und Nubien, page 8:
- [...] das Vorschreiten der Kolonien in Senegambien, in beiden Guinea's, am Vorgebirge der guten Hoffnung u. s. w.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1835, Joh. Georg August Galletti's allgemeine Weltkunde oder geographisch-statistisch-historische Uebersicht aller Länder [...] Achte Auflage, verbessert und vermehrt von J. G. F. Cannabich, column 442:
Derived terms
[edit]- Äquatorialguinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guineer
- guineisch
- Oberguinea, Ober-Guinea
- Portugiesisch-Guinea
- Spanisch-Guinea
See also
[edit]- (countries of Africa) Staaten Afrikas; Ägypten, Algerien, Angola, Äquatorialguinea, Äthiopien, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Dschibuti, Elfenbeinküste, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gabun, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kamerun, Kap Verde, Kenia, Komoren, Demokratische Republik Kongo, Republik Kongo, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyen, Madagaskar, Malawi, Mali, Marokko, Mauretanien, Mauritius, Mosambik, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Ruanda, Sambia, São Tomé und Príncipe, Senegal, Seychellen, Sierra Leone, Simbabwe, Somalia, Südafrika, Sudan, Südsudan, Tansania, Togo, Tschad, Tunesien, Uganda, Zentralafrikanische Republik (Category: de:Countries in Africa)
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Guinea | — |
accusative | Guineát | — |
dative | Guineának | — |
instrumental | Guineával | — |
causal-final | Guineáért | — |
translative | Guineává | — |
terminative | Guineáig | — |
essive-formal | Guineaként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Guineában | — |
superessive | Guineán | — |
adessive | Guineánál | — |
illative | Guineába | — |
sublative | Guineára | — |
allative | Guineához | — |
elative | Guineából | — |
delative | Guineáról | — |
ablative | Guineától | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Guineáé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Guineáéi | — |
Possessive forms of Guinea | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Guineám | — |
2nd person sing. | Guineád | — |
3rd person sing. | Guineája | — |
1st person plural | Guineánk | — |
2nd person plural | Guineátok | — |
3rd person plural | Guineájuk | — |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea f
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Related terms
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡwi.ne.a/, [ˈɡwiːneä]
Proper noun
[edit]Guinea f sg (genitive Guineae); first declension
- (New Latin) Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Guinea |
Genitive | Guineae |
Dative | Guineae |
Accusative | Guineam |
Ablative | Guineā |
Vocative | Guinea |
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea f
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
- Synonym: República de Guinea
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
See also
[edit]- (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Guinea n (genitive Guineas)
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
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- English terms borrowed from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English terms with unknown etymologies
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɪni
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- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
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- English terms with historical senses
- en:Regions of Africa
- en:Guinea
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- English derogatory terms
- American English
- English slang
- English ethnic slurs
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Guinea
- ca:Countries in Africa
- ca:Countries
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl lemmas
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl proper nouns
- nch:Guinea
- nch:Countries in Africa
- nch:Countries
- Central Nahuatl lemmas
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- nhn:Guinea
- nhn:Countries in Africa
- nhn:Countries
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
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- cs:Guinea
- cs:Countries in Africa
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- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Guinea
- da:Countries in Africa
- da:Countries
- Finnish terms derived from Portuguese
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/inea
- Rhymes:Finnish/inea/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Guinea
- fi:Countries in Africa
- fi:Countries
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- de:Guinea
- de:Countries in Africa
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- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒ
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒ/3 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian proper nouns
- hu:Guinea
- hu:Countries in Africa
- hu:Countries
- Italian 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɛa
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- Italian lemmas
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- it:Guinea
- it:Countries in Africa
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- Latin 3-syllable words
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- Latin lemmas
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- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- New Latin
- la:Guinea
- la:Countries in Africa
- la:Countries
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Guinea
- nb:Countries in Africa
- nb:Countries
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Guinea
- nn:Countries in Africa
- nn:Countries
- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ea
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- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
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- es:Guinea
- es:Countries in Africa
- es:Countries
- Swahili terms with audio links
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili proper nouns
- sw:Guinea
- sw:Countries in Africa
- sw:Countries
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- sv:Guinea
- sv:Countries in Africa
- sv:Countries