Palau
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from 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”).
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Palau
- A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Palau. Capital: Ngerulmud.
- 1989, Douglas L. Oliver, “Social Relations”, in Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146:
- Another society in which wealth per se was highly valued was Palau, but wealth belonging to descent units and not to individuals. […]
Palau society was divided into a large number of individually named, exogamous matriclans, and these were in turn subdivided into named matrilineages, each of which was a land-owning corporation and localized within a single community.
- 2014 February 5, Edith M. Lederer, “Palau to ban commercial fishing, promote tourism”, in AP News[2], archived from the original on 2023-07-19[3]:
- The president of Palau declared Tuesday that his Pacific island nation will ban commercial fishing and become a marine sanctuary. […]
Remengesau said establishing “a 100 percent marine sanctuary” will enable Palau to preserve “a pristine environment” and promote snorkeling, scuba diving and ecotourism as an alternative way to grow its economy.
- 2016 February 17, Ian Urbina, “Palau vs. the Poachers”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-02-17[5]:
- Few places on the planet are as isolated as Palau, or as sprawling. Its 21,000 residents are scattered across a handful of its 250 islands, which take up just 177 square miles combined. Relatively poor, and with no military of its own, Palau employs a marine police division with just 18 members and one patrol ship.
- 2021 October 14, Byron Kaye, “Tiny Pacific nation beats the world with 99% COVID vaccination, says Red Cross”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters[6], archived from the original on 2021-10-14, Asia Pacific[7]:
- Fully 99% of Palau's population over 12 has had both shots of vaccine for the new coronavirus, the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) said, citing government figures which also show that this amounts to 16,152 people.
That puts Palau, an archipelago of 500 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, in the "top spot", the IFRC said in a statement, ahead of countries like Portugal which was named one of the world's most vaccinated countries when 80% of its 10 million people were fully immunized last month.
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Further reading edit
- “Palau”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Palau at Google Ngram Viewer
- “Palau”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Palau”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Palau” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
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Proper noun edit
Palau
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania; capital: Ngerulmud)
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Central Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Palau
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Palau n (indeclinable, related adjective palauský)
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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- Palau in Internetová jazyková příručka
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Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Palau
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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Inflection of Palau (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | ||||
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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 | — | ||
abessive | Palautta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Audio (file)
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Palau n (proper noun, genitive Palaus or (optionally with an article) Palau)
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Palau
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | — |
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Etymology edit
Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Palau m
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Palau
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Palau
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Palau, from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Palau n (indeclinable)
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
- Palau (a commune and city in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy)
Further reading edit
- Palau in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aw
- Hyphenation: Pa‧lau
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Palau m
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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Swedish edit
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Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
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Audio (file)
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Palau n (genitive Palaus)
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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Audio (file)
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Palau
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
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singular | plural | |
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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 |
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Turkmen edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).
Proper noun edit
Palau
- Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)