Guinea

guinea English thumb|240px|Flag of Guinea thumb|right|Guinea on a globe Etymology From en pt:Guiné -ia place, the first part of which is of en 1 origin. Pronunciation en /ˈɡɪni/ UK,US,CA,AU en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Guinea.wav London en En-us-Guinea.ogg US en ɪni 2 Proper noun en historical en The <<coastal region>> of <<r/West Africa>> between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea. en Q1006en country r/West Africa Republic of Guinea. en https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/08/white-smoke-signals-election-of-new-roman-catholic-pope White smoke from Sistine Chapel chimney signals election of new pope 2025-05-08 Angela Giuffrida and Harriet Sherwood w:The Guardian 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. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Dufgu 8 May 2025 en derogatory _ US _ slang ethnic slur en guinea, an Italian. Hyponyms historical region en Upper Guinea, en Lower Guinea; en Gold Coast, en Pepper Coast, en Grain Coast, en Slave Coast, en Ivory Coast Derived terms en Equatorial Guinea French Guinea Guinea arrowroot Guinea corn guinea fowl,guineafowl guinea grains guinea hen weed guinea keet Guinea peach Guinea pepper guinea pig,guinea piglet Guinea plum Guinea wheat guinea worm Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Conakry guinea-worm disease Guineaman Guinean Gulf of Guinea Lower Guinea New Guinea Papua New Guinea Portuguese Guinea Proto-Trans-New Guinea Spanish Guinea Upper Guinea Descendants ja 1 ギニア Ginia Translations Q1006 short form of the Republic of Guinea Afrikaans: af Guinee Amharic: am ጊኔ Arabic: ar غِينْيَا f, ar غِنَاوَة f archaic, of the historical region Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܓܝܼܢܹܐ f Armenian: hy Գվինեա Asturian: ast Guinea Azerbaijani: az Qvineya Belarusian: be Гвіне́я f, be Гвінэ́я f Taraškievica Bengali: bn গিনি Breton: br Ginea f Bulgarian: bg Гвине́я f Burmese: my ဂီနီ Carpathian Rusyn: rue Ґвіне́я f Catalan: ca Guinea f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 幾內亞 Jǐnèiyà Cornish: kw Gyni Czech: cs Guinea f Danish: da Guinea Dutch: nl Guinee n Esperanto: eo Gvineo Estonian: et Guinea Farefare: gur Gine, gur Gini Finnish: fi Guinea French: fr Guinée f Georgian: ka გვინეა German: de Guinea n Greek: el Γουινέα f Hausa: ha Gini Hebrew: he גִּינֵאָה f ginea Hindi: hi गिनी Hungarian: hu Guinea Icelandic: is Gínea f Interlingua: ia Guinea Irish: ga Guine f Italian: it Guinea f Japanese: ja ギニア Ginia Kalenjin: kln Gini Kamba: kam Ngini Kazakh: kk Гвинея Khmer: km ហ្គីណេ Kikuyu: ki Gine Korean: ko ^기니 chiefly South Korea, ko ^기네 North Korea Kyrgyz: ky Гвинея Latin: la Guinea f Latvian: lv Gvineja f Lithuanian: lt Gvinėja f Luhya: luy Gini Luo: luo Gini Macedonian: mk Гвине́ја f Maltese: mt Gwinea il-Gwinea Māori: mi Kini Marathi: mr गिनी Meru: mer Gine Mongolian: mn Гвиней Navajo: nv Gíní Norman: nrf Graund-Gùinaée f Guernsey, nrf Dginnée f Jersey Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Guinea Nynorsk: nn Guinea Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Ґвинея f Persian: fa گینه gine Polish: pl Gwinea f Portuguese: pt Guiné f Rarotongan: rar Kini Romanian: ro Guineea f Russian: ru Гвине́я f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Гвине́ја f Latin: sh Gvinéja f Sinhalese: si ගිනි Slovak: sk Guinea f Slovene: sl Gvinêja f Spanish: es Guinea f Swahili: sw Gine Swedish: sv Guinea Tajik: tg Гвинея Tamil: ta கினி, ta கினியா Thai: th กินี Turkish: tr Gine Turkmen: tk Gwineýa Ukrainian: uk Гвіне́я f, uk Ґвіне́я f Urdu: ur گنی ginī Uzbek: uz Gvineya Vietnamese: vi Ghi-nê Welsh: cy Gini f Wolaytta: wal Giinii Yoruba: yo Gínì See also Countries of the world Catalan Pronunciation [né] ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-Guinea.wav Valencia Proper noun f ca Guinea Q1006 Derived terms ca guineà ca Guinea Bissau ca Guinea Equatorial ca Nova Guinea Related terms ca guinea Central Huasteca Nahuatl Proper noun nch proper noun nch Guinea Q1006 Central Nahuatl Proper noun nhn proper noun nhn Guinea Q1006 Czech cs: Pronunciation Ginea Gvínea cs Cs-Guinea.ogg [ˈɡɪnɛa] Proper noun f guinejský Guinejec cs Guinea Q1006 Declension f.sg Further reading Danish da: Proper noun da proper noun da Guinea Q1006 Derived terms da guineaner da guineansk Finnish fi: Etymology From fi pt Guiné. Pronunciation ginea Gui.ne.a Proper noun fi Guinea Q1006 Declension sg Guine a Derived terms fi guinealainen fi compounds Guinea-Bissau guineangueretsa guineankarkko Guineanlahti guineanmarakatti guineanruostegueretsa guineansimpanssi guineansuomuhäntäorava Uusi-Guinea German de: Pronunciation de /ɡiˈneːa/ de De-Guinea.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-Guinea2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Guineer some speakers Proper noun toponym de Guinea Q1006 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: de Balbi klassifizirt die sämtlichen afrikanischen Zungen auf nachstehende Art: [...] 3) Sprachen von Nigritien oder dem Negerlande, wohin er auch Senegambien und beide Guinea rechnet, [...]. de 1831 Wörterbuch der Naturgeschichte, dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Botanik, Mineralogie und Zoologie angemessen. Siebenter Band 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 [...] 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: de [...] das Vorschreiten der Kolonien in Senegambien, in beiden Guinea's, am Vorgebirge der guten Hoffnung u. s. w. Derived terms de Äquatorialguinea Guinea-Bissau Guineer guineisch Oberguinea,Ober-Guinea Portugiesisch-Guinea Spanisch-Guinea See also Hungarian hu: Pronunciation gínea hu Gui nea hu ɒ 3 Proper noun hu proper noun hu Guinea Q1006 hu:Guineai Köztársaság Declension Guineá o sgGuineá sg Derived terms hu guineai hu 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 Indonesian id: Etymology From id pt:Guiné -ia place. Pronunciation Gui.né.a Proper noun id Guinea Q1006 Noun a Guinean Adjective Guinean See also Further reading Italian it: Pronunciation Guinèa Proper noun f it Guinea Q1006 Related terms it guineano it Guinea-Bissau it Guinea Equatoriale it Nuova Guinea it Papua Nuova Guinea Anagrams it aeginu guaine iguane Latin Pronunciation Proper noun Guinea<1> la New Latin la Guinea Q1006 Declension Guinea<1> Norwegian Bokmål Guinea (region),no:Guinea thumb|The flag of Guinea. thumb|Guinea in Africa. thumb|A landscape in Fouta Djallon, Guinea. thumb|An eighteenth-century map showing the historical region of Guinea and European settlements along the West African coast. Etymology nb, ultimately through the widespread European name tradition represented by nb pt Guiné Guinea. The precise route by which the name entered Norwegian is uncertain. Portuguese pt Guiné Guinea was well established by the fifteenth century; Gomes Eanes de Zurara completed the first version of his Crónica da Guiné in 1453. Related European forms, however, are older than the Portuguese maritime expansion: Gunuia occurs on a Genoese map from around 1320 and Ginyia in the Catalan Atlas of 1375. The name originally referred to a much broader part of Africa than the modern country. The present-day Republic of Guinea takes its name from this older geographical designation. The present-day country's territory was known during the colonial period as nb Fransk Guinea French Guinea from 1893 until independence in 1958. nb Ultimate origin uncertain. Several explanations have been proposed: One widely discussed theory connects the name with an Amazigh or Berber word represented by Tarifit aynaw or agnaw (“mute; one whose language is not understood”), which came to be applied to peoples south of the Sahara. Another theory, associated with Leo Africanus, connects the name with Djenné, the historically important trading city on the Niger in present-day Mali. An older theory derives Guinea from the name en Ghana, but this has been questioned because forms resembling Guinea are attested in Europe before the Portuguese exploration of the West African coast. Store norske leksikon mentions a further possible source, guaya-na (“the esteemed people”), said to have been the name of a West African kingdom in the fourteenth century. None of these explanations is securely established. Parallel international adaptations include da Guinea, sv Guinea, de Guinea, nl Guinee, fr Guinée and en Guinea. Pronunciation nb /¹ɡɪˈneː.a/ [ɡɪˈnèː.a] nb eːa 3 nb Gui ne a Proper noun nb proper noun nb historical Guinea; nb historical region cont/Africa, a now little-used geographical name of varying extent for a broad part of the Atlantic coast of Africa, especially the West African coast and the northern shore of the Gulf of Guinea. nb Navnet Guinea ble tidligere brukt om et langt større område enn dagens stat Guinea. The name Guinea was formerly used for a much larger area than the present-day country of Guinea. nb 24 February 2025 Guinea – område i Afrika Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Guinea_-_omr%C3%A5de_i_Afrika Guinea er en nå lite brukt betegnelse på en del av den vestafrikanske kysten. Guinea is a now little-used designation for part of the West African coast. https://web.archive.org/web/20251006093124/https://snl.no/Guinea_-_omr%C3%A5de_i_Afrika 6 October 2025 Guinea; nb country cont/Africa Guinea, in West Africa, with Conakry as its capital. nb Guinea ble selvstendig fra Frankrike i 1958. Guinea became independent from France in 1958. nb 25 June 2026 Nils Petter Thuesen and Sten Lundbo Guinea Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Guinea Guinea er en republikk i Vest-Afrika. Guinea is a republic in West Africa. https://web.archive.org/web/20260808091644/https://snl.no/Guinea 8 August 2026 Usage notes In its historical geographical sense, Guinea has had varying boundaries. In its broadest use, the name has been applied to the African coast from Cape Verde southwards along the Gulf of Guinea to the Angola–Namibia border. In a narrower sense, it refers principally to the West African region north of the equator. The official Norwegian long-form name of the modern country is Republikken Guinea (“the Republic of Guinea”). The modern country is often called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from nb Guinea-Bissau and nb Ekvatorial-Guinea. Derived terms nb guineaner a Guinean nb guineansk Guinean See also nb Ekvatorial-Guinea Equatorial Guinea nb Fransk Guinea French Guinea nb Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau nb Ny-Guinea New Guinea nb Papua Ny-Guinea Papua New Guinea nb Spansk Guinea Spanish Guinea References “Guinea” in Store norske leksikon. “Guinea – område i Afrika” in Store norske leksikon. “Land Norge har diplomatiske forbindelser med” at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. M. D. W. Jeffreys (1972), “Guinea: Pointers to the Origin of this Word”, Cahiers d'Études africaines, 12 (48), pp. 666–669. E. W. Bovill (1995), The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century, 2nd edition, p. 116. Bethania Mariani (2005), “A língua como questão nos primórdios da história da colonização africana: a “Crônica da Guiné”, de G. E. de Zurara”, Gragoatá. Anagrams nb aeginu guinea nb exonyms Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Proper noun nn proper noun nn Guinea Q1006 Related terms nn guinean, nn guineanar nn guineansk See also nn Ekvatorial-Guinea nn Guinea-Bissau nn Ny-Guinea nn Papua Ny-Guinea Slovak Pronunciation Proper noun f Guiney žena sk Guinea Q1006 References Spanish Pronunciation +<audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-Rodelar-Guinea.wav> Proper noun f es Guinea Q1006 es República de Guinea Derived terms es palma de Guinea Guinea-Bisáu gallina de Guinea Guinea Ecuatorial Nueva Guinea hierba de Guinea pimienta de Guinea Papúa Nueva Guinea Related terms es guinea guineano guineo Swahili sw: Pronunciation sw Sw-ke-Guinea.flac Kenya Proper noun sw proper noun sw Guinea Q1006 See also Swedish sv: Pronunciation sv /ɡɵɪˈneːa/ sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Guinea.wav Proper noun n sv Guinea Q1006 Related terms sv guinean sv guineansk sv guineanska See also References saol Svensk MeSH Vietnamese vi Etymology Borrowed from vi en Guinea. Proper noun vi Guinea Q1006 Synonyms Ghi-nê Guinée vi exonyms