Guinea

See also: guinea

English

Guinea

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Guiné, which is of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪni/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɪni

Proper noun

Guinea

1. (historical) The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
3. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
   • 2025 May 8, Angela Giuffrida and Harriet Sherwood, “White smoke from Sistine Chapel chimney signals election of new pope”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Among the frontrunners before the conclave began were Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state; Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines; Péter Erdő, a traditionalist from Hungary; Robert Sarah, a cardinal from Guinea who criticised Francis’s papacy; and the moderate US cardinal Robert Prevost.

4. (derogatory US slang, ethnic slur) Someone of Italian descent in the United States.

Hyponyms

• (historical region): Upper Guinea, Lower Guinea; Gold Coast, Pepper Coast, Grain Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast

Derived terms

• Equatorial Guinea
• French Guinea
• Guinea arrowroot
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guinea corn
• guinea fowl, guineafowl
• guinea grains
• guinea hen weed
• guinea keet
• Guinean
• Guinea peach
• Guinea pepper
• guinea pig, guinea piglet
• Guinea plum
• Guinea wheat
• guinea worm
• guinea-worm disease
• Lower Guinea
• New Guinea
• Papua New Guinea
• Portuguese Guinea
• Proto-Trans-New Guinea
• Spanish Guinea
• Upper Guinea

Descendants

• → Japanese: ギニア (Ginia)

Translations

short form of the Republic of Guinea

• Afrikaans: Guinee
• Amharic: ጊኔ (gine)
• Arabic: غِينْيَا f (ḡīnyā), غِنَاوَة f (ḡināwa) (archaic, of the historical region)
• Armenian: Գվինեա (hy) (Gvinea)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܝܼܢܹܐ f (gīnē)
• Asturian: Guinea (ast)
• Belarusian: Гвіне́я f (Hvinjéja), Гвінэ́я f (Hvinéja) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: গিনি (bn) (gini)
• Breton: Ginea (br) f
• Bulgarian: Гвине́я f (Gvinéja)
• Burmese: ဂီနီ (gini)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Ґвіне́я f (Gvinéja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幾內亞 / 几内亚 (zh) (Jǐnèiyǎ)

• Cornish: Gyni
• Czech: Guinea (cs) f
• Danish: Guinea (da)
• Dutch: Guinee (nl) n
• Esperanto: Gvineo (eo)
• Estonian: Guinea (et)
• Farefare: Gine, Gini
• Finnish: Guinea (fi)
• French: Guinée (fr) f
• Georgian: გვინეა (ka) (gvinea)
• German: Guinea (de) n
• Greek: Γουινέα (el) f (Gouinéa)
• Hausa: Gini (ha)
• Hebrew: גינאה f (gineh)
• Hindi: गिनी (hi) (ginī)
• Hungarian: Guinea (hu)
• Icelandic: Gínea (is) f
• Interlingua: Guinea
• Irish: Guine f
• Italian: Guinea (it) f
• Japanese: ギニア (ja) (Ginia)
• Kalenjin: Gini
• Kamba: Ngini
• Kazakh: Гвинея (kk) (Gvineä)
• Khmer: ហ្គីណេ (km) (hkiinee)
• Kikuyu: Gine
• Korean: 기니 (ko) (Gini)
• Kyrgyz: Гвинея (Gvineya)
• Latin: Guinea f
• Latvian: Gvineja (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Gvinėja (lt) f
• Luhya: Gini
• Luo: Gini
• Macedonian: Гвине́ја (mk) f (Gvinéja)
• Maltese: Gwinea (il-Gwinea)
• Maori: Kini
• Marathi: गिनी (ginī)
• Meru: Gine
• Mongolian: Гвиней (Gvinej)
• Navajo: Gíní
• Norman: Graund-Gùinaée f (Guernsey), Dginnée f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Guinea (no)

  Nynorsk: Guinea (nn)

• Persian: گینه (fa) (gine)
• Polish: Gwinea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Guiné (pt) f
• Rarotongan: Kini
• Romanian: Guineea (ro) f
• Russian: Гвине́я (ru) f (Gvinéja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гвине́ја f

  Roman: Gvinéja (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ගිනි (si) (gini)
• Slovak: Guinea f
• Slovene: Gvinêja (sl) f
• Spanish: Guinea (es) f
• Swahili: Gine (sw)
• Swedish: Guinea (sv)
• Tajik: Гвинея (tg) (Gvineya)
• Thai: กินี (th) (gì-nii)
• Turkish: Gine (tr)
• Turkmen: Gwineýa
• Ukrainian: Гвіне́я (uk) f (Hvinéja), Ґвіне́я f (Gvinéja)
• Urdu: گنی (ginī)
• Uzbek: Gvineya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ghi-nê
• Welsh: Gini f
• Yoruba: Gínì

See also

• Countries of the world

countries in Africa (appendix)edit

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Eswatini ~ eSwatini, Swaziland
• 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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡiˈne.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡiˈne.a]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Guinea f

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• guineà
• Guinea Bissau
• Guinea Equatorial
• Nova Guinea

Related terms

• guinea

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪnɛa]
• IPA^(key): [ˈɡviːnɛa]

• Audio; [ˈɡɪnɛa]:

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Proper noun

Guinea f (relational adjective guinejský, demonym Guinejec)

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Guinea (sg-only feminine in -ea)

	singular
nominative	Guinea
genitive	Guiney, Guineje
dative	Guineji
accusative	Guineu
vocative	Guineo
locative	Guineji
instrumental	Guineou, Guinejí

Further reading

• “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), 2008–2025

Danish

Proper noun

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• guineaner
• guineansk

Finnish

Etymology

From Portuguese Guiné.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡineɑ/, [ˈɡine̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ineɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Gui‧ne‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): Gui‧nea

Proper noun

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Guinea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
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.

Possessive forms of Guinea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Guineani — accusative nom. Guineani — gen. Guineani genitive Guineani — partitive Guineaani — inessive Guineassani — elative Guineastani — illative Guineaani — adessive Guineallani — ablative Guinealtani — allative Guinealleni — essive Guineanani — translative Guineakseni — abessive Guineattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Guineasi — accusative nom. Guineasi — gen. Guineasi genitive Guineasi — partitive Guineaasi — inessive Guineassasi — elative Guineastasi — illative Guineaasi — adessive Guineallasi — ablative Guinealtasi — allative Guineallesi — essive Guineanasi — translative Guineaksesi — abessive Guineattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Guineamme — accusative nom. Guineamme — gen. Guineamme genitive Guineamme — partitive Guineaamme — inessive Guineassamme — elative Guineastamme — illative Guineaamme — adessive Guineallamme — ablative Guinealtamme — allative Guineallemme — essive Guineanamme — translative Guineaksemme — abessive Guineattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Guineanne — accusative nom. Guineanne — gen. Guineanne genitive Guineanne — partitive Guineaanne — inessive Guineassanne — elative Guineastanne — illative Guineaanne — adessive Guineallanne — ablative Guinealtanne — allative Guineallenne — essive Guineananne — translative Guineaksenne — abessive Guineattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Guineansa — accusative nom. Guineansa — gen. Guineansa genitive Guineansa — partitive Guineaansa — inessive Guineassaan Guineassansa — elative Guineastaan Guineastansa — illative Guineaansa — adessive Guineallaan Guineallansa — ablative Guinealtaan Guinealtansa — allative Guinealleen Guineallensa — essive Guineanaan Guineanansa — translative Guineakseen Guineaksensa — abessive Guineattaan Guineattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• guinealainen

compounds

• Guinea-Bissau
• guineangueretsa
• guineankarkko
• Guineanlahti
• guineanmarakatti
• guineanruostegueretsa
• guineansimpanssi
• guineansuomuhäntäorava
• Uusi-Guinea

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈneːa/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: Guineer (some speakers)

Proper noun

Guinea n (proper noun, genitive Guineas or (optionally with an article) Guinea)

1. 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)

Derived terms

• Äquatorialguinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guineer
• guineisch
• Oberguinea, Ober-Guinea
• Portugiesisch-Guinea
• Spanisch-Guinea

See also

countries in Africa: Staaten Afrikas (appendix)edit

• Ägypten
• Algerien
• Angola
• Äquatorialguinea
• Äthiopien
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Demokratische Republik Kongo
• Dschibuti
• Elfenbeinküste
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Gabun
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kamerun
• Kap Verde
• Kenia
• Komoren
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libyen
• Madagaskar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marokko
• Mauretanien
• Mauritius
• Mosambik
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Republik Kongo
• Ruanda
• Sambia
• Senegal
• Seychellen
• Sierra Leone
• Simbabwe
• Somalia
• Südafrika
• Sudan
• Südsudan
• São Tomé und Príncipe
• Tansania
• Togo
• Tschad
• Tunesien
• Uganda
• Zentralafrikanische Republik

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡiːnɛɒ]
• Hyphenation: Gui‧nea
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Proper noun

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa; official name: Guineai Köztársaság)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	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

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

• guineai

Compound words

• Alsó-Guinea
• Bissau-Guinea
• Bissau-guineai Köztársaság
• Egyenlítői-Guinea
• Egyenlítői-guineai Köztársaság
• Északkelet-Új-Guinea
• Guineai-öböl
• Pápua Új-Guinea
• Új-Guinea

See also

countries in Africa: Afrika országai (appendix)edit

• Algéria
• Angola
• Benin
• Bissau-Guinea
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Comore-szigetek
• Csád
• Dél-afrikai Köztársaság
• Dél-Szudán
• Dzsibuti
• Egyenlítői-Guinea
• Egyiptom
• Elefántcsontpart
• Eritrea
• Etiópia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghána
• Guinea
• Kamerun
• Kenya
• Kongói Demokratikus Köztársaság
• Kongói Köztársaság
• Közép-afrikai Köztársaság
• Lesotho
• Libéria
• Líbia
• Madagaszkár
• Malawi
• Mali
• Marokkó
• Mauritánia
• Mauritius
• Mozambik
• Namíbia
• Niger
• Nigéria
• Ruanda
• Seychelle-szigetek
• Sierra Leone
• São Tomé és Príncipe
• Szenegál
• Szomália
• Szudán
• Szváziföld
• Tanzánia
• Togo
• Tunézia
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
• Zöld-foki Köztársaság

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwiˈnɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: Gui‧nè‧a

Proper noun

Guinea f

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• guineano
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guinea Equatoriale
• Nuova Guinea
• Papua Nuova Guinea

Anagrams

• guaine, iguane

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʷɪ.ne.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʷiː.ne.ä]

Proper noun

Guinea f sg (genitive Guineae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Guinea
genitive	Guineae
dative	Guineae
accusative	Guineam
ablative	Guineā
vocative	Guinea

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• guineaner
• guineansk

See also

• Ekvatorial-Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Ny-Guinea
• Papua Ny-Guinea

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• guinean, guineanar
• guineansk

See also

• Ekvatorial-Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Ny-Guinea
• Papua Ny-Guinea

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈnea/ [ɡiˈne.a]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: Gui‧ne‧a

Proper noun

Guinea f

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

   Synonym: República de Guinea

Derived terms

• gallina de Guinea
• Guinea Ecuatorial
• Guinea-Bisáu
• hierba de Guinea
• Nueva Guinea
• palma de Guinea
• Papúa Nueva Guinea
• pimienta de Guinea

Related terms

• guinea
• guineano
• guineo

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Proper noun

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

See also

countries in Africa: nchi za Afrika (appendix)edit

• Afrika Kusini
• Algeria ~ Aljeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Chad ~ Chadi
• Cote d'Ivoire ~ Kodivaa
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia, Uhabeshi ~ Habeshi
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea Bisau ~ Guinea-Bisau ~ Ginebisau
• Guinea ya Ikweta ~ Ginekweta
• Guinea ~ Gine ~ Gini
• Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati
• Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo, Kongo-Kinshasa
• Jamhuri ya Kongo, Kongo-Brazzaville
• Jibuti ~ Djibouti
• Kamerun ~ Cameroon ~ Kameruni
• Kenya
• Komori, Visiwa vya Ngazija
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Madagaska, Bukini
• Malawi, Unyasa
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mayotte
• Misri, Umisri
• Morisi
• Moroko ~ Maroko
• Msumbiji, Mozambik
• Mtakatifu Helena
• Namibia
• Niger ~ Nijeri
• Nigeria ~ Nijeria ~ Naijeria
• Rwanda ~ Ruanda
• Réunion
• Sahara ya Magharibi
• Sao Tome na Principe
• Senegal ~ Senegali
• Shelisheli
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Sudan Kusini
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Uswazi, Swaziland
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Guinea n (genitive Guineas)

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• guinean
• guineansk
• guineanska

References

• Guinea in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH