Palau

palau English Etymology en :bor pau:Belau en pau Belau Palau, traditionally derived from pau aidebelau indirect replies in reference to the island's creation story, or from pau beluu village, from en poz-pro *banua inhabited land, territory. Pronunciation en /pəˈlaʊ/ AU,UK,US pä-lou′ pə-lo͞o′Palau 1414 3 Sometimes spelled Pelew.Pa·lau or Pe·lew 587 1 en en-us-Palau.ogg US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Palau.wav UK en aʊ 2 Proper noun en Q695en A <<country>> consisting of around 340 <<islands>> in <<r/Micronesia>>, in <<cont/Oceania>> Republic of Palau Ngerulmud. en mul:PW<id:Q695> mul:PLW<id:Q695><qq:symbols> en 1989 Douglas L. Oliver Social Relations Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands https://archive.org/details/nativeculturesof0000oliv/ Honolulu w:University of Hawaii Press 0-8248-1182-8 88-20625 18257409 146 https://archive.org/details/nativeculturesof0000oliv/page/146/ Another society in which wealth per se was highly valued was Palau, but wealth belonging to descent units and not to individuals.Palau society was divided into a large number of individually named, exogamous matriclans, and these were in turn subdivided into named matrilineages, each of which was a land-owning corporation and localized within a single community. en February 5, 2014 Edith M. Lederer Palau to ban commercial fishing, promote tourism https://web.archive.org/web/20230719132640/https://apnews.com/article/8b42df16c8cb4489958a9485aeb002b0 w:AP News The president of Palau declared Tuesday that his Pacific island nation will ban commercial fishing and become a marine sanctuary.Remengesau said establishing “a 100 percent marine sanctuary” will enable Palau to preserve “a pristine environment” and promote snorkeling, scuba diving and ecotourism as an alternative way to grow its economy. en February 17, 2016 w:Ian Urbina Palau vs. the Poachers w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20160217153222/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/magazine/palau-vs-the-poachers.html 0362-4331 1645522 Few places on the planet are as isolated as Palau, or as sprawling. Its 21,000 residents are scattered across a handful of its 250 islands, which take up just 177 square miles combined. Relatively poor, and with no military of its own, Palau employs a marine police division with just 18 members and one patrol ship. en October 14, 2021 Byron Kaye Tiny Pacific nation beats the world with 99% COVID vaccination, says Red Cross Raju Gopalakrishnan https://web.archive.org/web/20211014072119/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tiny-pacific-nation-beats-world-with-99-covid-vaccination-says-red-cross-2021-10-14/ w:Reuters Asia Pacific Fully 99% of Palau's population over 12 has had both shots of vaccine for the new coronavirus, the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) said, citing government figures which also show that this amounts to 16,152 people.That puts Palau, an archipelago of 500 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, in the "top spot", the IFRC said in a statement, ahead of countries like Portugal which was named one of the world's most vaccinated countries when 80% of its 10 million people were fully immunized last month. en December 5, 2024 Joyu Wang; Austin Ramzy Beijing Has Picked Off Taiwan’s Remaining Allies. Taiwan Is Fighting Back. w:The Wall Street Journal https://web.archive.org/web/20241206051710/https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/beijing-has-picked-off-taiwans-remaining-allies-taiwan-is-fighting-back-f392915a https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/beijing-has-picked-off-taiwans-remaining-allies-taiwan-is-fighting-back-f392915a December 06, 2024 1042-9840 781541372 https://archive.ph/ujAUK While in Palau, Lai delivered a speech at its legislature and plans to open a government building complex that Taiwan helped to build. On Friday, Taiwan and Palau are set to conduct a joint maritime rescue drill, with Taiwan’s coast guard sending one of its newest domestically-made vessels from its southern port of Kaohsiung, in a possible rehearsal for showdowns with Chinese coast guard vessels in disputed regional waters. en Derived terms en Palauan Descendants uli Bal’aaw 1 Translations Q695 Republic of Palau Afrikaans: af Palau, af Belau Arabic: ar بَالَاو m balāw Armenian: hy Պալաու Asturian: ast Paláu Balinese: ban Palau Bengali: bn পালাউ Betawi: bew Palau, bew Palo Breton: br Palau Bulgarian: bg Палау Burmese: my ပလောင်း Catalan: ca Palau Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 帕勞 Pàláo Mainland, cmn 帛琉 Taiwan Czech: cs Palau Danish: da Palau Dutch: nl Palau Esperanto: eo Belaŭo, eo Palaŭo Estonian: et Belau, et Palau Finnish: fi Palau French: fr Belau, fr Palau, fr Palaos Georgian: ka პალაუ German: de Palau Greek: el Παλάου n Hindi: hi पलाउ m Hungarian: hu Palau Icelandic: is Palaú n Indonesian: id Palau Interlingua: ia Palau Irish: ga Oileáin Palau m-p Italian: it Palau Japanese: ja パラオ Parao Javanese: jv Palau Khmer: km ប៉ាឡូ Korean: ko ^팔라우, ko ^벨라우 North Korea Lao: lo Lithuanian: lt Palau f Macedonian: mk Пала́у Malay: ms Palau Maltese: il-mt Palaw Nahuatl: nah Palaos Norman: nrf Îles Palau f-p Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Palau Nynorsk: nn Palau Palauan: pau Belau Polish: pl Palau, pl Belau Portuguese: pt Palau Romanian: ro Palau n Russian: ru Пала́у f n Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Палау m Latin: sh Palau m Shan: shn ပႃႇလၢဝ်း Spanish: es Palaos Sundanese: su Palau Swedish: sv Palau n Thai: th ปาเลา Turkish: tr Palau Turkmen: tk Palau Ulithian: uli Bal’aaw Vietnamese: vi Pa-lau Wolof: wo Palau Yoruba: yo Paalu See also en Ngerulmud Countries of the world References Further reading Palau Anagrams en aalpu Lapua Paula Afrikaans af: Alternative forms af Belau Proper noun af Palau Q695 af:Ngerulmud Derived terms af Palauer af Palaus Central Nahuatl Etymology Ultimately from nhn pau Belau Palau. Proper noun nhn proper noun nhn Palau Q695 Czech cs: Etymology Ultimately from cs pau Belau Palau. Pronunciation cs Pa lau Proper noun n 1 palauský Palauan Palauanka cs Palau Q695 Related terms cs palau<g:m-in> palauština<g:f> Further reading Finnish fi: Etymology Ultimately from fi pau Belau Palau. Pronunciation Proper noun fi Palau Q695 Declension sg Palau a Derived terms fi palau palaulainen Anagrams fi aalpu Lapua Paula lupaa paalu paula pulaa German de: Etymology Ultimately from de pau Belau Palau. Pronunciation de De-Palau.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun toponym de Palau Q695 Declension n.sg Derived terms de palauisch Hungarian hu:+ (állam) Etymology Ultimately from hu pau Belau Palau. Pronunciation hu Pa lau hu u 3 Proper noun hu proper noun hu Palau Q695 hu:Palaui Köztársaság Declension Palau o sgPalau sg Derived terms hu palaui See also Italian it: Etymology Ultimately from it pau Belau Palau. Pronunciation Palàu Proper noun m it Palau Q695 Derived terms it palauano Anagrams it aalpu apula Lithuanian lt: Etymology Ultimately from lt pau Belau Palau. Pronunciation Paláu Proper noun m Paláu - 1 palaujiẽtiškas palaujiẽtis palaujiẽtė lt Palau Q695 Paláu Respùblika See also Further reading Norwegian Bokmål no: Etymology Ultimately from nb pau Belau Palau. Proper noun nb proper noun nb Palau Q695 Related terms nb Karolinene nb palauer nb palauisk Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Etymology Ultimately from nn pau Belau Palau. Proper noun nn proper noun nn Palau Q695 Related terms nn palauar nn palauisk Polish pl: Etymology pl :bor en:Palau 2 1 Pronunciation LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-Palau.wav Proper noun n yes palauski pl Palau Q695 pl commune/and/city p/Sassari r/Sardinia c/Italy Palau Derived terms pl nouns Palauańczyk Palauanka See also Further reading pl exonyms Portuguese pt: Etymology Ultimately from pt pau Belau Palau. Pronunciation pt aw 2 pt Pa lau Proper noun m pt Palau Q695 Derived terms pt palauano Swedish sv: Etymology Ultimately from sv pau Belau Palau. Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Palau.wav Proper noun n sv Palau Q695 Derived terms sv palauer sv palauisk sv palauiska See also References 12 Svensk MeSH Anagrams sv aalpu Paula Turkish tr: Pronunciation tr LL-Q256 (tur)-ToprakM-Palau.wav Proper noun tr Palau Q695 Declension Palau Palau'yu Palau'ya Palau'da Palau'dan Palau'nun Derived terms tr Palaulu See also Turkmen tk: Etymology Ultimately from tk pau Belau Palau. Proper noun tk proper noun tk Palau Q695