palas

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See also: Palas, pálás, and päläs

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi पलाश (palāś), from Sanskrit.

Alternative forms

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, page 162:
      The Dhak or Palas is a familiar wild tree and is common throughout the greater part of India except in drier parts.
    • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, 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

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

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

Noun

palás

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

Derived terms

See also

Cypriot Arabic

Root
p-l-s
4 terms

Etymology

From Arabic بَلَصَ (balaṣa).

Verb

palas I (present pkyiplos) (transitive)

  1. to press, to squash, to crush
  2. to run over

References

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 165

Dalmatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

palas m

  1. palace

References

  • Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: 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

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
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