Guinea

Borrowed from Portuguese Guiné, which is of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪniː/

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• Rhymes: -ɪni

Guinea

1. (historical) The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
2. A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
3. (derogatory US slang, ethnic slur) Someone of Italian descent in the United States.

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

• 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]}

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

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Guinea f

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guineà
• Guinea Bissau
• Guinea Equatorial
• Nova Guinea

• guinea

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

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

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Guinea f (related adjective guinejský, demonym Guinejec)

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• Guinea in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Guinea in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• Guinea in Internetová jazyková příručka

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guineaner
• guineansk

From Portuguese Guiné.

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

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈneːa/

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• Homophone: Guineer (some speakers)

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, [...].

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

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

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guineai

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

Guinea f

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

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

• guaine, iguane

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwi.ne.a/, [ˈɡwiːneä]

Guinea f sg (genitive Guineae); first declension

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

First-declension noun, singular only.

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guineaner
• guineansk

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

Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• guinean, guineanar
• guineansk

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈnea/ [ɡiˈne.a]

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

Guinea f

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

   Synonym: República de Guinea

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Guinea

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)

• (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]}

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Guinea n (genitive Guineas)

1. Guinea (a country in West Africa)