pulau

pulau (countable and uncountable, plural pulaus)

1. Alternative form of pilaf.

Compare Malay pulau.

• IPA^(key): /pulaw/
• Hyphenation: pu‧lau

pulau

1. island (area of land surrounded by water)

• pulau buah (“orchard”)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpulau̯/ [ˈpu.lau̯]

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• Rhymes: -ulau̯
• Syllabification: pu‧lau

Inherited from Malay pulau, from Proto-Malayic *pulaw, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pulaw.

pulau (plural pulau-pulau)

1. island (a contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water)

   Synonyms: dwipa, nusa

Borrowed from Ngaju [Term?]

pulau (plural pulau-pulau)

1. clumps of wood of the same type in the forest

• “pulau”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pulaw. Compare Uneapa vulo (“land”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulaw/ [ˈpu.lau̯]
• Rhymes: -ulau̯, -lau̯, -au̯
• Hyphenation: pu‧lau

pulau (Jawi spelling ڤولاو, plural pulau-pulau or pulau²)

1. island (area of land completely surrounded by water)

   Synonym: nusa

• Indonesian: pulau
• → Min Nan: 浮爐／浮炉 (phû-lô͘)

pulau (Jawi spelling ڤولاو)

1. to ostracise; to ignore

   Aqil dipulau oleh rakan sekelasnya.

   Aqil is being ostracised by his classmates.

• palau (colloquial, nonstandard)

• "pulau" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pulaw.

pulau

1. island