palau

palau (countable and uncountable, plural palaus)

1. Alternative spelling of pilaf (“dish of browned rice etc.”).

Inherited from Old Catalan palau, from Latin palātium. Compare Occitan palatz, French palais.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈlaw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈlaw]

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• Rhymes: -aw

palau m (plural palaus)

1. palace

• palatí

• “palau”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “palau”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “palau” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “palau” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Ultimately from Palauan Belau (“Palau”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpalau̯]
• Hyphenation: pa‧lau

palau m inan (indeclinable)

1. Palauan (Austronesian language)

   Synonym: palauština

• “palau”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

< Palau

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑu̯/, [ˈpɑ̝lɑ̝u̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑu
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧lau
• Hyphenation^(key): pa‧lau

palau

1. Palauan (language)

• palaun kieli

• palaunkielinen (expressed in Palauan, being Palauan-speaking)

• Lapua, Paula, lupaa, paalu, paula, pulaa

palau

1. drunk

• IPA^(key): /palau/
• Rhymes: -au̯

Unknown.

palau (Jawi spelling ڤالاو, plural palau-palau)

1. scar

   Synonym: parut

A slang variant of pulau.

palau (Jawi spelling ڤالاو)

1. (slang, nonstandard) to ignore or to ghost.

   Synonym: pulau

• “palau” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.