pulau

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Compare Malay pulau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pulaw/
• Hyphenation: pu‧lau

Noun

pulau

1. island (area of land surrounded by water)

Derived terms

• pulau buah (“orchard”)

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Indonesian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Ilocano puro, Malay pulau, Sundanese pulo, Tagalog pulo).

Noun

pulau (first-person possessive pulauku, second-person possessive pulaumu, third-person possessive pulaunya)

1. island (area of land completely surrounded by water)

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• memulaukan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
• pemulauan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
• kepulauan (“archipelago”) [abstract / locative] (ke-an)

(Proper nouns):

• Pulau Man

 

Further reading

• “pulau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Indonesian pulau, Ilocano puro, Sundanese pulo, Tagalog pulo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pulau̯/
• Rhymes: -ulau̯, -lau̯, -au̯

Noun

pulau

1. island (area of land completely surrounded by water)

Synonyms

• nusa

Verb

pulau (memulau)

1. to ostracize