Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary

bab

, n.

area/space above; top; surface.

bab a bebul, melidiul, a sils a ngar bab. skoki a merael er a bab.

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.

bebul

n.poss.3s

olechiul a beab

n.

club moss.

bedengel a beab

expr.

gray.

blil a beab

expr.

jail; prison.

ullemachel el beab

expr.

small mouse; field mouse.

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.

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?

Bo mkodir se el kob er a bebul a tebel; a John a mlo kmedii a kob er a bebul a tebel; a John a kiledir a kob er a bebul a tebel.

> Put the cup on the table; John was putting the cup on the table (just now, recently); John put the cup on the table (yesterday, a week ago, etc.).

A bebul a tebel a mla mo dekimes.

> The top of the table has gotten wet.

Proverbs:

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 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 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.

Mnguu a hong el loia er a bebul a tebel.

> Put the book on top of the dest

Ng ngarang a ngar er a bebul �a tebel

> What is on the table or desk?

Mnguu a oluches el loia er a bebul a hong.

> Put the pencil on top of the book.

A Lurvey a mlo elireuakl e ngubetii tia el medalia el ngkedel a Wilbur el mla er a chiklel e nguu el turecheklii er a deel el ngar er a bebul a blil a Wilbur.

> Lurvey bent down and removed Wilbur's medal from his neck and hung it from a nail at the top of Wilbur's pen.

rois

, n.

mountain.
rois a metongakl e kedidai el chutem me a risois; Roisersuul. A rois aike el mekididai el chereomel el oumesingd el di bad.

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