Palau

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”).

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

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• Rhymes: -aʊ

Palau

1. 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, 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, archived from the original on 2023-07-19‎:

     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, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-02-17‎:

     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, archived from the original on 2021-10-14, Asia Pacific‎:

     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.

• Palauan

• Ngerulmud
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• “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.

• Lapua, Paula

• Belau

Palau

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania; capital: Ngerulmud)

• Palauer
• Palaus

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Palau

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpalau̯]

Palau n (indeclinable, related adjective palauský)

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• Palau in Internetová jazyková příručka

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑu/, [ˈpɑ̝lɑ̝u]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑu
• Syllabification^(key): Pa‧la‧u

Palau

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• palaulainen

• Lapua, Paula, lupaa, paalu, paula, pulaa

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

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

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• palauisch

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒlɒu]
• Hyphenation: Pa‧lau
• Rhymes: -u

Palau

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• palaui

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Palau m

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• palauano

• apula

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Palau

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• Karolinene
• palauer
• palauisk

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Palau

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• palauar
• palauisk

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.law/

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• Rhymes: -alaw
• Syllabification: Pa‧lau

Palau n (indeclinable)

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
2. Palau (a commune and city in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy)

• Palau in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: Pa‧lau

Palau m

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• palauano

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

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Palau n (genitive Palaus)

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• Paula

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Palau

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

• Palaulu

• (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

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Palau

1. Palau (A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)