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Yiddish
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”).
Proper noun
פּאַלאַו • (palau) n
- Palau (a country in Oceania)
2024 March 5, Dor Shabashewitz, “פֿאַר וואָס זענען די דרײַ פּאַציפֿישע אינדזלען צווישן ישׂראלס בעסטע פֿרײַנד? [far vos zenen di dray patsifishe indzlen tsvishn ysrals beste fraynd?]”, in Forverts:אין פּאַלאַו, למשל, האַלט מען דעם ייִדן סטיואַרט בעק פֿאַר אײנעם פֿון די גרינדער פֿון דער נאַציאָנאַלער מלוכהשאַפֿט.- in palau, lmshl, halt men dem yidn styuart bek far eynem fun di grinder fun der natsyonaler mlukhhshaft.
- In Palau, for example, Stuart Beck, a Jew, is considered one of the founders of the national statehood.