Rabaul

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tolai baul (“mangrove”)[1] or Rabaul (“Rabaul”)[2]

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɹəˈbaʊl/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Proper noun

Rabaul

  1. A town and former provincial capital in northern New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Schultz-Naumann, Joachim. Unter Kaisers Flagge. Deutschlands Schutzgebiete im Pazifik und in China einst und heute [Under the Kaiser’s Flag. Germany’s Protectorates in the Pacific and China, then and today]. Munich: Universitas Verlag. 1985, p. 96. →ISBN
  2. ^ Mosel, Ulrike (1984) Tolai syntax and its historical development, Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, page 19

German

Proper noun

Rabaul n (proper noun, genitive Rabauls or (optionally with an article) Rabaul)

  1. Rabaul (a town in Papua New Guinea)

Declension

Declension of Rabaul [sg-only, neuter, toponym]
singular
def. noun
nominative das Rabaul
genitive des Rabauls, Rabaul1
dative dem Rabaul
accusative das Rabaul

1Optionally with an article.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Rabaul f

  1. Rabaul (a town in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea)

Tok Pisin

Proper noun

Rabaul

  1. Rabaul (a town in Papua New Guinea)
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