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)
• Armenian: Պալաու (Palau)
• Breton: Palau
• Bulgarian: Палау (Palau)
• Burmese: ပလောင်း (pa.laung:)
• 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)
• Georgian: პალაუ (ṗalau)
• 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)
• 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 láaw)
• 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

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau (a country in Oceania)

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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

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Proper noun

Palau n (genitive Palaus)

1. Palau (a country and archipelago in Micronesia)

Declension

Declension of Palau (uncountable, proper noun)

	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

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

Proper noun

Palau m

1. Palau

Derived terms

• palauano

Anagrams

• apula

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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

Etymology

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

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