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palau

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

Other forms: palaus

Palau is a Pacific island nation famous for a lake full of harmless jellyfish. Dive in Palau.

The jellyfish lost their sting because the lake has nothing in it to sting. Palau was the first country to ban sunscreens that damage coral.

Original: John Blau Skebong Vector: Nightstallion · Public domain

Definitions of palau

  1. 1nounpalauPacific island nation famous for a lake full of harmless jellyfish.C2

    “Palau lies east of the Philippines.”

palau is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Sanskrit

    पुलाक

  2. pra-sau

    *𑀧𑀼𑀮𑀸𑀕

  3. Urdu

    پُلاؤ

  4. Hindi

    पुलाव

  5. fa-cls

    پلاو

  6. ota

    پلاو

  7. English

    pilaf

  8. English, today

    palau

pilaf ota پلاو (modern Turkish pilav), from fa-cls پلاو, from Hindi पुलाव/Urdu پُلاؤ, from pra-sau 𑀧𑀼𑀮𑀸𑀕, from Sanskrit पुलाक, which is probably of dra - origin. Akin to Tamil புழுக்கு (“cooked rice”). a doublet of pulao.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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