Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary

beab

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rodent; rat; mouse.
beab a ta er a bedengel a melekesako el charm; omuchel a rakd e dirrek el menga dellomel.

beab

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blue sea chub (fish) [Kyphosus cinerascens].

Examples:

A beab a sebechel mertii er a delongelel a sairio er a blai, rael e kmerd er a Ngcheangel.

> Rats can get to Kayangel by hiding in construction materials.

A beab a sebechel kmerd er a Ngcheangel el ngar er a chelsel a blil a kall el ua bek el beras.

> Rats can get to Kayangel in bags of food such as rice.

A beab a milsa a medal a sechelil el telemall.

> The mouse saw his friend's injured face.

blil a beab

> jail; prison

Aika el merkong el elolem el buil e ng ngar ngii a dellemelem el mla mekang er a beab?

> In the past 6 months have rats eaten your plants?

Proverbs:

Ng ua beab el mengard.

> Nibbling like a rat.

Activity that slowly destroys another person or institution. Generally applied to verbal actions; spreading malicious gossip; a speech loaded with subtle insults. However, it can be applied to wider behavior such as economic behavior that destroys the resources of the country: killing fish by dynamite; cutting forests without planting

Ng ko er a beab er a Ngerard, el kma a lisiu me a lisam.

> It's like the rat of Ngerard, which eats up all your coconuts and (then) all of ours.

It's a decision, plan etc. that will backfire. A pet rat owned by Mad, chief of Ngaraard, ate the coconuts of most of the chief's neighbors, then, still hungry, ate the chief's own coconuts.

Ng ko er a cherellel a beab el di ta e keroker.

> It's like the birth of a rat with one offspring per mother.

It's something that happens just once, something I put up with only once. According to this saying, the rat bears but one litter. Hence the application "once is enough" about an act that bears no repeating.

More Examples:

E ng tmoech a beab me a katuu a somkemkii.

> And when the mouse appeared, the cat snatched him.

bedikl

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any trap used to catch animals on land; snare.
bedikl a klekedall el omedikl, bedikl er a malk, bedikl er a beab.

klab

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harvested tubar of taro or tapioca.
klab a ta er a ngklel a kukau.

rekung

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land crab.
rekung a charm el mekekerei er a chemang; kakum. A rekung a charm; a ta er a ngklel a rekung a kakum. Ng mekekerei el ua a meklungel a kesako. Ng eaiuong a kekemengel e eruong a techetechel. Ng sebechel el kie er a beluu e ng di ng omechell er a daob. Ng kall.

bedeklek	n.poss.1s
bedeklem	n.poss.2s
bedeklel	n.poss.3s
bedeklam	n.poss.1pe
bedekled	n.poss.1pi
bedekliu	n.poss.2p
bedeklir	n.poss.3p
bedikl er a Saibal	expr.	chicken trap using decoy chicken.
bedikl er a beab	expr.	mouse-trap.
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