Palau

English

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Palau

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Palau

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aʊ

Proper noun

Palau

2. 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.

Derived terms

• Palauan

Translations

See also

• Ngerulmud
• Countries of the world

Further reading

• “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.

Anagrams

• Lapua, Paula

Afrikaans

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^af

Alternative forms

• Belau

Proper noun

Palau

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

Derived terms

• Palauer
• Palaus

Central Nahuatl

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

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

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Proper noun

Palau n (indeclinable, related adjective palauský)

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

Further reading

• Palau in Internetová jazyková příručka

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Palau

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

Declension

Derived terms

• palaulainen

Anagrams

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

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^de

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 consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)

Declension

Derived terms

• palauisch

Hungarian

 Palau (állam) on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Palau

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

Declension

Derived terms

• palaui

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau m

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

Derived terms

• palauano

Anagrams

• apula

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

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

Related terms

• Karolinene
• palauer
• palauisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

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

Related terms

• palauar
• palauisk

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^pl

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

Further reading

• Palau in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: Pa‧lau

Proper noun

Palau m

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

Derived terms

• palauano

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Palau n (genitive Palaus)

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

Anagrams

• Paula

Turkish

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^tr

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Palau

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

Declension

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

Turkmen Wikipedia has an article on:

Palau

Wikipedia ^tk

Etymology

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

Proper noun

Palau

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