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Kapampangan
Etymology
Possibly from Malay perada (“tinsel; gold foil”), ultimately from Sanskrit पारद (pārada, “mercury; quicksilver”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pələˈɾa/,
- Hyphenation: pa‧la‧ra
Noun
palara
- foil (thin aluminum or tin used to wrap food)
Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
palāra f (genitive palārae); first declension
- An unknown kind of bird
Declension
First-declension noun.
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
- IPA(key): /palaˈɾaʔ/,
- Hyphenation: pa‧la‧ra
Noun
palarâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜇ)
- 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