Tuvalu

See also: Túvalú and tuvalu

English

Etymology

From Tuvaluan [Term?] (literally “eight standing together”) in reference to the eight inhabited islands of Tuvalu, although Tuvalu consists of nine islands. The ninth island was inhabited in 1949. Compare to Proto-Austronesian *walu (“eight”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.və.luː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tuːˈvɑː.luː/, /ˈtuː.və.luː/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Tuvalu

2. A country in Oceania.

Related terms

• Tuvaluan

Translations

country in Oceania

• Arabic: تُوفَالُو‎ f (tufālū)
• Armenian: Տուվալու (Tuvalu)
• Assamese: টুভালু (tubhalu)
• Azerbaijani: Tuvalu (az)
• Bengali: টুভালু (bn) (ṭubhalu)
• Breton: Tuvalu
• Bulgarian: Тува́лу n (Tuválu)
• Catalan: Tuvalu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖瓦盧 (zh), 图瓦卢 (zh) (Túwǎlú)

• Czech: Tuvalu (cs)
• Danish: Tuvalu (da)
• Dutch: Tuvalu (nl)
• Esperanto: Tuvalo (eo)
• Finnish: Tuvalu (fi)
• French: Tuvalu (fr)
• Georgian: ტუვალუ (ṭuvalu)
• German: Tuvalu (de)
• Greek: Τουβαλού (el) (Touvaloú)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: טובלו‎ f (tuvalú)
• Hindi: तुवालू (hi) m (tuvālū)
• Icelandic: Túvalú n
• Interlingua: Tuvalu
• Irish: Tuvalu
• Italian: Tuvalu (it)
• Japanese: ツバル (ja) (Tsubaru)
• Kalenjin: Tuvalu
• Kamba: Tuvalu
• Kannada: ತುವಾಲು (kn) (tuvālu)
• Khmer: ទូវ៉ាលូ (km) (tuuvaaluu)
• Kikuyu: Tuvalu
• Korean: 투발루 (ko) (Tuballu)

• Luhya: Tuvalu
• Luo: Tuvalu
• Macedonian: Ту́валу n (Túvalu)
• Malayalam: തുവാലു (tuvālu)
• Marathi: तुवालू (tuvālū)
• Meru: Tuvalu
• Navajo: Tʼoobááloo
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: Tuvalu (Jersey)
• Norwegian: Tuvalu
• Oriya: ଟୁଭାଲୋ (ṭubhalo)
• Polish: Tuvalu (pl), Tuwalu (pl)
• Portuguese: Tuvalu (pt)
• Punjabi: ਤੁਵਾਲੂ (tuvālū)
• Romanian: Tuvalu (ro) n
• Russian: Тува́лу (ru) f or n (Tuválu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ту̀валу m

  Roman: Tùvalu (sh) m

• Slovak: Tuvalu n
• Spanish: Tuvalu (es)
• Swahili: Tuvalu (sw)
• Swedish: Tuvalu (sv)
• Tagalog: Tubalu
• Tamil: துவாலு (tuvālu)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ตูวาลู (th) (dtuu-waa-luu)
• Turkish: Tuvalu (tr)
• Turkmen: Tuwalu
• Uzbek: Tuvalu (uz)
• Vietnamese: Tu-va-lu
• Yoruba: Tufalu

See also

• Countries of the world
• Funafuti

Anagrams

• Tuluva

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu (a country in Oceania)

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Czech

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu (a country in Oceania)

Related terms

• tuvalský
• Tuvalan

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Finnish

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu (a country in Oceania)

Declension

Inflection of Tuvalu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		Tuvalu	—
genitive		Tuvalun	—
partitive		Tuvalua	—
illative		Tuvaluun	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Tuvalu	—
accusative	nom.	Tuvalu	—
	gen.	Tuvalun
genitive		Tuvalun	—
partitive		Tuvalua	—
inessive		Tuvalussa	—
elative		Tuvalusta	—
illative		Tuvaluun	—
adessive		Tuvalulla	—
ablative		Tuvalulta	—
allative		Tuvalulle	—
essive		Tuvaluna	—
translative		Tuvaluksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Tuvalutta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Tuvalu (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Tuvaluni	Tuvalumme
2nd person	Tuvalusi	Tuvalunne
3rd person	Tuvalunsa

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Tuvalu n (genitive Tuvalus)

1. Tuvalu (a country and archipelago in Polynesia)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuvɒlu]
• Hyphenation: Tu‧va‧lu
• Rhymes: -lu

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu (a country in Oceania)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Tuvalu	—
accusative	Tuvalut	—
dative	Tuvalunak	—
instrumental	Tuvaluval	—
causal-final	Tuvaluért	—
translative	Tuvaluvá	—
terminative	Tuvaluig	—
essive-formal	Tuvaluként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Tuvaluban	—
superessive	Tuvalun	—
adessive	Tuvalunál	—
illative	Tuvaluba	—
sublative	Tuvalura	—
allative	Tuvaluhoz	—
elative	Tuvaluból	—
delative	Tuvaluról	—
ablative	Tuvalutól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Tuvalué	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Tuvaluéi	—

Possessive forms of Tuvalu
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Tuvalum	—
2nd person sing.	Tuvalud	—
3rd person sing.	Tuvaluja	—
1st person plural	Tuvalunk	—
2nd person plural	Tuvalutok	—
3rd person plural	Tuvalujuk	—

Derived terms

• tuvalui

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Italian

Proper noun

Tuvalu m

1. Tuvalu (a country in Oceania)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Flag of Tuvalu

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu (a country in Oceania)

Related terms

• tuvaler
• tuvalsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu (a country in Oceania)

Related terms

• tuvalar
• tuvalsk

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Polish

Alternative forms

• Tuwalu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈva.lu/

Proper noun

Tuvalu n (indeclinable)

1. Tuvalu (a country in Oceania)

Derived terms

• adjective: tuwalski

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

Proper noun

Tuvalu m

1. Tuvalu (a country and archipelago in Oceania)

Derived terms

• tuvaluano

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈbalu/, [t̪uˈβ̞a.lu]

Proper noun

Tuvalu ?

1. Tuvalu (a country in Oceania)

Derived terms

• tuvaluano