Tuvalu

See also: Túvalú and tuvalu

English

Etymology

From Tuvaluan meaning "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 *walu meaning "eight" in Proto-Austronesian.

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 m (tufālū)
• Armenian: Տուվալու (Tuvalu)
• Assamese: টুভালু (tubhalu)
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: तुवालू (hi) (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: ប្រទេសទូវ៉ាលូ (prɑteih tuuvaaluu)
• Kikuyu: Tuvalu

• Korean: 투발루 (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
• Yoruba: Tufalu

See also

• Countries of the world
• Funafuti

Anagrams

• Tuluva

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Czech

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu

Related terms

• tuvalský
• Tuvalan

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Finnish

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu

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

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Proper noun

Tuvalu n (genitive Tuvalus)

1. Tuvalu

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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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Flag of Tuvalu

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu

Related terms

• tuvaler
• tuvalsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Tuvalu

1. Tuvalu

Related terms

• tuvalar
• tuvalsk

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Polish

Alternative forms

• Tuwalu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈva.lu/

Proper noun

Tuvalu n (indeclinable)

1. Tuvalu

Derived terms

• adjective: tuwalski

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Tuvalu m

1. Tuvalu (a country and archipelago in Oceania)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈbalu/, [t̪uˈβalu]

Proper noun

Tuvalu ?

1. Tuvalu