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Palau

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Proper Noun

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A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Palau. Capital: Ngerulmud.
"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."

Noun

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Alternative spelling of pilaf (“dish of browned rice etc.”). alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Etymology

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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