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Palau

pa·lau

UK/pəˈlaʊ/ US/ˈpælaʊ/ uncommon

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a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean

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Borrowed from Palauan Belau (“Palau”), traditionally derived from aidebelau (“indirect replies”) in reference to the island's creation story, or from beluu (“village”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua (“inhabited land, territory”).

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