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 bebul a tebel a mla mo dekimes.

> The top of the table has gotten wet.

blil a beab

> jail; prison

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 milsa a medal a sechelil el telemall.

> The mouse saw his friend's injured face.

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.

Proverbs:

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.

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

More Examples:

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?

E ng tmoech a beab me a katuu a somkemkii.

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

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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