Palau

See also: palau

English

Etymology

Palauan Belau (“Palau”), traditionally derived from aidebelau (“indirect replies”) in reference to the island's creation story, or from beluu (“village”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua (“inhabited land, territory”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈlaʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aʊ

Proper noun

Palau

2. A country in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Palau.

Derived terms

• Palauan

Translations

Republic of Palau

• Arabic: بَالَاو m (balāw)
• Armenian: Պալաու (Palau)
• Breton: Palau
• Bulgarian: Палау (Palau)
• Burmese: ပလောင်း (pa.laung:)
• Catalan: Palau (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帕勞／帕劳 (zh) (Pàláo), 帕劳 (zh) (Pàláo), 帛琉 (zh) (Bóliú)

• Czech: Palau (cs)
• Danish: Palau (da)
• Dutch: Palau (nl)
• Esperanto: Belaŭo, Palaŭo (eo)
• Estonian: Belau (et), Palau
• Finnish: Palau (fi)
• French: Belau (fr), Palau (fr)
• Georgian: პალაუ (ṗalau)
• German: Palau (de)
• Greek: Παλάου (el) n (Paláou)
• Hungarian: Palau (hu)
• Indonesian: Palau (id)
• Interlingua: Palau
• Irish: Oileáin Palau m pl
• Italian: Palau
• Japanese: パラオ (ja) (Parao)
• Khmer: ប៉ាឡូ (paalou)
• Korean: 팔라우 (ko) (Pallau)
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• Lithuanian: Palau (lt) f
• Macedonian: Пала́у (Paláu)
• Malay: Palau
• Maltese: il-Palaw
• Nahuatl: Palaos
• Norman: Îles Palau f pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Palau

  Nynorsk: Palau (nn)

• Palauan: Belau
• Polish: Palau (pl), Belau (pl)
• Portuguese: Palau (pt)
• Romanian: Palau (ro) n
• Russian: Пала́у (ru) f or n (Paláu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Палау m

  Roman: Palau (sh) m

• Shan: ပႃႇလၢဝ်း (pàa láao)
• Spanish: Palaos (es)
• Swedish: Palau (sv) n
• Thai: ปาเลา (th) (bpaa-lao)
• Turkish: Palau (tr)
• Turkmen: Palau
• Vietnamese: Pa-lau
• Wolof: Palau
• Yoruba: Paalu

See also

• Ngerulmud
• Countries of the world

Anagrams

• Lapua, Paula

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Central Nahuatl

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau (a country in Oceania)

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Czech

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau ?

1. Palau

Related terms

• palauský

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Finnish

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑu/, [ˈpɑ̝lɑ̝u]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑu
• Syllabification^(key): Pa‧la‧u

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau

Declension

Inflection of Palau (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative		Palau	—
genitive		Palaun	—
partitive		Palauta	—
illative		Palauhun	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Palau	—
accusative	nom.	Palau	—
	gen.	Palaun
genitive		Palaun	—
partitive		Palauta	—
inessive		Palaussa	—
elative		Palausta	—
illative		Palauhun	—
adessive		Palaulla	—
ablative		Palaulta	—
allative		Palaulle	—
essive		Palauna	—
translative		Palauksi	—
abessive		Palautta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Palau (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Palauni — accusative nom. Palauni — gen. Palauni genitive Palauni — partitive Palautani — inessive Palaussani — elative Palaustani — illative Palauhuni — adessive Palaullani — ablative Palaultani — allative Palaulleni — essive Palaunani — translative Palaukseni — abessive Palauttani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Palausi — accusative nom. Palausi — gen. Palausi genitive Palausi — partitive Palautasi — inessive Palaussasi — elative Palaustasi — illative Palauhusi — adessive Palaullasi — ablative Palaultasi — allative Palaullesi — essive Palaunasi — translative Palauksesi — abessive Palauttasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Palaumme — accusative nom. Palaumme — gen. Palaumme genitive Palaumme — partitive Palautamme — inessive Palaussamme — elative Palaustamme — illative Palauhumme — adessive Palaullamme — ablative Palaultamme — allative Palaullemme — essive Palaunamme — translative Palauksemme — abessive Palauttamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Palaunne — accusative nom. Palaunne — gen. Palaunne genitive Palaunne — partitive Palautanne — inessive Palaussanne — elative Palaustanne — illative Palauhunne — adessive Palaullanne — ablative Palaultanne — allative Palaullenne — essive Palaunanne — translative Palauksenne — abessive Palauttanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Palaunsa — accusative nom. Palaunsa — gen. Palaunsa genitive Palaunsa — partitive Palautaan Palautansa — inessive Palaussaan Palaussansa — elative Palaustaan Palaustansa — illative Palauhunsa — adessive Palaullaan Palaullansa — ablative Palaultaan Palaultansa — allative Palaulleen Palaullensa — essive Palaunaan Palaunansa — translative Palaukseen Palauksensa — abessive Palauttaan Palauttansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• palaulainen

Anagrams

• Lapua, Paula, lupaa, paalu, paula, pulaa

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German

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Palau n (proper noun, genitive Palaus or (optionally with an article) Palau)

1. Palau (a country and archipelago in Micronesia)

Declension

Declension of Palau [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Palau
genitive	eines	des	Palaus
dative	einem	dem	Palau
accusative	ein	das	Palau

Derived terms

• palauisch

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Hungarian

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒlɒu]
• Hyphenation: Pa‧lau
• Rhymes: -u

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau (a country in Micronesia, Oceania)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Palau	—
accusative	Palaut	—
dative	Palaunak	—
instrumental	Palauval	—
causal-final	Palauért	—
translative	Palauvá	—
terminative	Palauig	—
essive-formal	Palauként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Palauban	—
superessive	Palaun	—
adessive	Palaunál	—
illative	Palauba	—
sublative	Palaura	—
allative	Palauhoz	—
elative	Palauból	—
delative	Palauról	—
ablative	Palautól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Palaué	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Palauéi	—

Possessive forms of Palau
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Palaum	—
2nd person sing.	Palaud	—
3rd person sing.	Palauja	—
1st person plural	Palaunk	—
2nd person plural	Palautok	—
3rd person plural	Palaujuk	—

Derived terms

• palaui

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Italian

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau m

1. Palau

Derived terms

• palauano

Anagrams

• apula

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau

Related terms

• Karolinene
• palauer
• palauisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau

Related terms

• palauar
• palauisk

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Palau, from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

1. Palau (an archipelago and country in Micronesia)
2. Palau (a commune and city in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy)

Further reading

• Palau in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Palau in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈlaw/ [paˈlaʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈlaw/

• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: Pa‧lau

Proper noun

Palau m

1. Palau (a country in Oceania)

Derived terms

• palauano

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Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau n (genitive Palaus)

1. Palau

Anagrams

• Paula

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Turkmen

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau