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

• (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)
• Breton: Palau
• Bulgarian: Палау (Palau)
• Catalan: Palau (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帕勞 (zh), 帕劳 (zh) (Pàláo)

• 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)
• German: Palau (de)
• Greek: Παλάου (el) n (Paláou)
• Hungarian: Palau (hu)
• Interlingua: Palau
• Irish: Oileáin Palau m pl
• Italian: Palau
• Japanese: パラオ (ja) (Parao)
• Korean: 팔라우 (Pallau)
• 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

• Spanish: Palaos (es)
• Swedish: Palau (sv)
• 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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Czech

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau

Related terms

• palauský

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Finnish

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

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Palau n (genitive Palaus)

1. Palau

Derived terms

• palauisch

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Italian

Proper noun

Palau m

1. Palau

Derived terms

• palauano

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau

Related terms

• Karolinene
• palauer
• palauisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau

Related terms

• palauar
• palauisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.law/

Proper noun

Palau n (indeclinable)

1. Palau
2. City in Italy.

Further reading

• Palau in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Palau m

1. Palau (a country in Oceania)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Palau n (genitive Palaus)

1. Palau

Anagrams

• Paula

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Turkmen

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau