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

• (General Australian, UK, US) IPA^(key): /pəˈlaʊ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• 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／帕劳 (zh) (Pàláo), 帛琉 (zh) (Bóliú)

• 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)
• Indonesian: Palau (id)
• Interlingua: Palau
• Irish: Oileáin Palau m pl
• Italian: Palau
• Japanese: パラオ (ja) (Parao)
• Khmer: ប៉ាឡូ (paalou)
• Korean: 팔라우 (ko) (Pallau), 벨라우 (ko) (Bellau) (North Korea)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• 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 láao)
• 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

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau (a country in Oceania)

Czech

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau

Related terms

• palauský

Finnish

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑu/, [ˈpɑlɑu]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑu
• Syllabification^(key): 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

German

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Palau n (proper noun, genitive Palaus or (optionally with an article) Palau)

1. Palau (a country and archipelago in Micronesia)

Declension

Declension of Palau [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Palau
genitive	eines	des	Palaus
dative	einem	dem	Palau
accusative	ein	das	Palau

Derived terms

• palauisch

Hungarian

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

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

Italian

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau m

1. Palau

Derived terms

• palauano

Anagrams

• apula

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau

Related terms

• Karolinene
• palauer
• palauisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau

Related terms

• palauar
• palauisk

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.law/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alaw
• Syllabification: Pa‧lau

Proper noun

Palau n (indeclinable)

1. Palau (an archipelago and country in Micronesia)
2. Palau (a commune and city in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy)

Further reading

• Palau in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Palau in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /paˈlaw/ [paˈlaʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐˈlaw/

• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: Pa‧lau

Proper noun

Palau m

1. Palau (a country in Oceania)

Derived terms

• palauano

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau n (genitive Palaus)

1. Palau

Anagrams

• Paula

Turkish

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau (a country in Oceania)

Declension

declension of Palau

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Palau
accusative (belirtme)	Palau'yu
dative (yönelme)	Palau'ya
locative (bulunma)	Palau'da
ablative (çıkma)	Palau'dan
genitive (tamlayan)	Palau'nun

    possessive of Palau

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Palau'm	Palaularım / Palau'larım
senin (your)	Palau'n	Palauların / Palau'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Palau'su	Palauları / Palau'ları
bizim (our)	Palau'muz	Palaularımız / Palau'larımız
sizin (your)	Palau'nuz	Palaularınız / Palau'larınız
onların (their)	Palau'su / Palauları / Palau'ları	Palauları / Palau'ları

Derived terms

• Palaulu

See also

• (countries of Oceania) Okyanusya ülkesi; Avustralya, Cook Adaları, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Adaları, Mikronezya, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua Yeni Gine, Samoa, Solomon Adaları, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Yeni Zelanda

Turkmen

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

1. Palau