Guinea
See also: guinea
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Portuguese Guiné, which is of uncertain origin.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea
- (historical geography) The coast 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.
HyponymsEdit
- (historical region): Upper Guinea, Lower Guinea; Gold Coast, Pepper Coast, Grain Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast
Derived termsEdit
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 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
TranslationsEdit
short form of the Republic of Guinea
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See alsoEdit
- 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]
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ɡiˈnə.ə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ɡiˈnɛ.ə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ɡiˈne.a/
Audio (Valencian) (file)
Proper nounEdit
Guinea f
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Derived termsEdit
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Central Huasteca NahuatlEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea
Central NahuatlEdit
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Guinea
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea f (related adjective guinejský, demonym Guinejec)
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
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Further readingEdit
DanishEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
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FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Portuguese Guiné.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
DeclensionEdit
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 | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
abessive | Guineatta | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
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, [...].
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- 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 [...]
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- 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.
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- 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 termsEdit
HungarianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
Compound words
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea f
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
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AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea f sg (genitive Guineae); first declension
- (New Latin) Guinea (a country in West Africa)
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Guinea |
Genitive | Guineae |
Dative | Guineae |
Accusative | Guineam |
Ablative | Guineā |
Vocative | Guinea |
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
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Norwegian NynorskEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
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SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea f
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
- Synonym: República de Guinea
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SwahiliEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Proper nounEdit
Guinea
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
- (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]
SwedishEdit
Proper nounEdit
Guinea n (genitive Guineas)
- Guinea (a country in West Africa)