palara

Kapampangan

Etymology

Possibly from Malay perada (“tinsel; gold foil”), ultimately from Sanskrit पारद (pārada, “mercury; quicksilver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pələˈɾa/ [pə.ləˈɾä]
• Hyphenation: pa‧la‧ra

Noun

palara

1. foil (thin aluminum or tin used to wrap food)

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈlaː.ra/, [päˈɫ̪äːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈla.ra/, [päˈläːrä]

Noun

palāra f (genitive palārae); first declension

1. An unknown kind of bird

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	palāra	palārae
genitive	palārae	palārārum
dative	palārae	palārīs
accusative	palāram	palārās
ablative	palārā	palārīs
vocative	palāra	palārae

References

• “palara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Tagalog

Etymology

Possibly from Malay perada (“tinsel; gold foil”), ultimately from Sanskrit पारद (pārada, “mercury; quicksilver”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /palaˈɾaʔ/ [pɐ.lɐˈɾaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧la‧ra

Noun

palarâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜇ)

1. foil (thin aluminum or tin used to wrap food)

   Synonym: oropel

Further reading

• “palara”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 292