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nauru

UK/nɑːˈuː.ɹuː/US/nɑːˈuː.ɹuː/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Nauru is the world's smallest island republic, in the Pacific. The phosphate of Nauru.

It was among the richest countries per head in the 1970s on bird droppings turned to phosphate. Nauru has no capital city and an airport runway along most of one side.

User:Skimel · Public domain

Definitions of nauru

  1. 1nounnauruThe world's smallest island republic, in the Pacific.C2

    “Nauru covers about eight square miles.”

nauru is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. German

    Nauru

  2. English

    Nauru

  3. English, today

    nauru

Built from

  • a-nuau-a-ororo · na — I go to the seashore

Nauru Borrowed from German Nauru. From German Nauru, from na Naoero. a doublet of Naoero. The exact origin of the name is uncertain. The German anthropologist Paul Hambruch suggested that it derives from the na - phrase a-nuau-a-ororo (“I go to the seashore”), although this was later disputed by the German Catholic missionary Alois Kayser.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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