palara

Possibly from Malay perada (“tinsel; gold foil”), ultimately from Sanskrit पारद (pārada, “mercury; quicksilver”).

• IPA^(key): /pələˈɾa/ [pə.ləˈɾä]
• Hyphenation: pa‧la‧ra

palara

1. foil (thin aluminum or tin used to wrap food)

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paˈɫaː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈlaː.ra]

palāra f (genitive palārae); first declension

1. An unknown kind of bird

First-declension noun.

• “palara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Possibly from Malay perada (“tinsel; gold foil”), ultimately from Sanskrit पारद (pārada, “mercury; quicksilver”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /palaˈɾaʔ/ [pɐ.lɐˈɾaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧la‧ra

palarâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜇ)

1. foil (thin aluminum or tin used to wrap food)

   Synonym: oropel

• “palara”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 292