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parau

See also: paráu, pârău, pârâu, Pârâu, and Pārau

Arem

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Etymology

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From Proto-Vietic *pʰruːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁praw; cognate with Vietnamese sáu.

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Numeral

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parau

  1. six

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay parau, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀaw (“hoarse”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈparau̯]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧rau

Adjective

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parau (comparative lebih parau, superlative paling parau)

  1. hoarse
    Synonyms: garau, serak

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Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *paʀaw (“hoarse”).

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Adjective

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parau (Jawi spelling ڤاراو, comparative lebih parau, superlative paling parau)

  1. hoarse (of a voice)
    Synonyms: serak, garau, garuk
    Suara parau ― Hoarse voice

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: parau

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Tahitian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *palau (“to boast, brag”)[1] from Proto-Polynesian *lau₂ (“to count, to recite, to read”).[2] Sense of paper likely a contraction of ʻapi parau (“page [of a book]”, literally “fold of [written] speech”).

Noun

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parau

  1. word, speech, tongue
  2. paper

References

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  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “palau”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “lau.2a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9

Further reading

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  • Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
  • “parau” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.
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