palas

See also: Palas, pálás, and päläs

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi पलाश (palāś), from Sanskrit.

Alternative forms

• palash

Noun

palas (plural palases)

1. A tree of eastern India and Burma, Butea monosperma.

   Synonyms: dhak, flame of the forest

   • 2005, Bhojraj Dwivedi, Environmental Vaastu, p. 162:

     The Dhak or Palas is a familiar wild tree and is common throughout the greater part of India except in drier parts.

   • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:

     The tea garden lay in the foothills of Bhutan and got its name from the many palash trees that stood tall among the undulating green sea of tea bushes.

Etymology 2

Noun

palas

1. plural of pala

Anagrams

• alaps, lapas, palsa, plaas, salpa

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pa‧las
• IPA^(key): /paˈlas/

Noun

palás

1. a type of butcher knife for slitting animal's throat

Derived terms

• magpalas
• palason

 

See also

• balisong
• daga
• gata
• kutsilyo
• lanseta
• minasbad
• sanggot
• sundang
• tabak

 

Dalmatian

Etymology

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Noun

palas m

1. palace

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Ibatan

Noun

palas

1. (anatomy) spleen

Latin

Verb

pālās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of pālō

Noun

pālās

1. accusative plural of pāla

References

• palas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “palas”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• pala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Portuguese

Noun

palas

1. plural of pala

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French palace.

Noun

palas n (plural palasuri)

1. luxury hotel

Declension

Declension of palas

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) palas	palasul	(niște) palasuri	palasurile
genitive/dative	(unui) palas	palasului	(unor) palasuri	palasurilor
vocative	palasule		palasurilor

References

• palas in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Noun

palas f pl

1. plural of pala

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French palace.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɫas/
• Hyphenation: pa‧las

Noun

palas (definite accusative palası, plural palaslar)

1. luxury hotel
2. (archaic) palace

   Synonym: saray

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French palais, from Latin palātium.

Noun

palas m (plural palasau)

1. palace

Derived terms

• palasaidd

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
palas	balas	mhalas	phalas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “palas”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies