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

• (General Australian, UK, US) 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 (zh), 帕劳 (zh) (Pàláo), 帛琉 (zh)

• 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/, [ˈpɑlɑu]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑu
• Syllabification: 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	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Palautta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Palau (type rosé)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Palauni	Palaumme
2nd person	Palausi	Palaunne
3rd person	Palaunsa

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.law/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alaw
• Syllabification: Pa‧lau

Proper noun

Palau n (indeclinable)

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

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

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /pɐˈlaw/, [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