Nauru

Nauru

See also: nauru

English

Etymology

Possibly from Nauruan anáoero (“I go to the beach”).

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /naʊˈru/, /nəˈru/
• (Nauru) IPA^(key): /ˈn̪ʌ̯u.ru/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /nɑːˈuː.ɹuː/, /ˈnaʊ.ɹu/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uː

Proper noun

Nauru

1. A country in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Nauru.
2. The island on which the country is located.
3. Nauruan, the language of Nauru.

Derived terms

• Nauruan

Translations

Republic of Nauru

Amharic: ናውሩ (nawru) Arabic: نَاورُو‎ Armenian: Նաուրու (Nauru) Azerbaijani: Nauru (az) Belarusian: Науру (Nauru) Bengali: নাউরু (bn) (nauru) Breton: Nauru Bulgarian: Нау́ру (Naúru) Catalan: Nauru (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 瑙魯／瑙鲁 (zh) (Nǎolǔ) (Mainland China), 諾魯／诺鲁 (zh) (Nuòlǔ) (Taiwan) Czech: Nauru (cs) Danish: Nauru (da) Dutch: Nauru (nl) Esperanto: Nauro (eo) Estonian: Nauru (et) Faroese: Nauru n Finnish: Nauru (fi) French: Nauru (fr) Georgian: ნაურუ (nauru) German: Nauru (de) Greek: Ναουρού (el) n (Naouroú) Hindi: नौरु (nauru) Hungarian: Nauru (hu) Icelandic: Nárú (is) n Interlingua: Nauru Irish: Nárú Italian: Nauru (it) Japanese: ナウル (ja) (Nauru) Kalenjin: Nauru Kamba: Nauru Khmer: ណូរុ (nooru) Kikuyu: Nauru Korean: 나우루 (ko) (nauru) Latvian: Nauru Limburgish: Nachoeroe Lithuanian: Nauru (lt) Luhya: Nauru Luo: Nauru Macedonian: На́уру n (Náuru) Malay: Nauru Maltese: Nawru Meru: Nauru Nauruan: Naoero (na) Norman: Nauru Norwegian: Bokmål: Nauru Nynorsk: Nauru (nn) Persian: نائورو‎ Polish: Nauru (pl) Portuguese: Nauru (pt) m Romanian: Nauru (ro) n Russian: Нау́ру (ru) (Naúru) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Науру m Roman: Nauru (sh) m Slovak: Nauru n Somali: Nawru Spanish: Nauru (es) m Swahili: Nauru (sw) Swedish: Nauru (sv) Thai: นาอูรู (th) (naa-uu-ruu) Tibetan: ནའུ་རུ། (na'u ru) Turkish: Nauru (tr) Turkmen: Nauru Vietnamese: Na-u-ru Yoruba: Nauru

See also

• Countries of the world

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈnaw.ɾu/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Nauru m

1. Nauru (country)
2. Nauru (island)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Nauru

1. Nauru (a country in Oceania)

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Czech

Proper noun

Nauru

1. Nauru

Related terms

• nauruský

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Finnish

Etymology

From English Nauru, possibly from Nauruan anáoero (“I go to the beach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑu̯ru/, [ˈnɑu̯ru]
• Rhymes: -ɑuru
• Syllabification^(key): Nau‧ru

Proper noun

Nauru

1. Nauru

Declension

Inflection of Nauru (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		Nauru	—
genitive		Naurun	—
partitive		Naurua	—
illative		Nauruun	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Nauru	—
accusative	nom.	Nauru	—
	gen.	Naurun
genitive		Naurun	—
partitive		Naurua	—
inessive		Naurussa	—
elative		Naurusta	—
illative		Nauruun	—
adessive		Naurulla	—
ablative		Naurulta	—
allative		Naurulle	—
essive		Nauruna	—
translative		Nauruksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Naurutta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Nauru (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Nauruni	Naurumme
2nd person	Naurusi	Naurunne
3rd person	Naurunsa

Derived terms

• nauru
• naurulainen

Anagrams

• ruuan, ruuna, uurna

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany)

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Proper noun

Nauru n (proper noun, genitive Naurus or (optionally with an article) Nauru)

1. Nauru (an island and country in Micronesia)

Declension

Declension of Nauru [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Nauru
genitive	eines	des	Naurus
dative	einem	dem	Nauru
accusative	ein	das	Nauru

Derived terms

• Nauruer
  • Nauruerin
• nauruisch

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɒuru]
• Hyphenation: Na‧u‧ru
• Rhymes: -ru

Proper noun

Nauru

1. Nauru (a country in Oceania)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Nauru	—
accusative	Naurut	—
dative	Naurunak	—
instrumental	Nauruval	—
causal-final	Nauruért	—
translative	Nauruvá	—
terminative	Nauruig	—
essive-formal	Nauruként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Nauruban	—
superessive	Naurun	—
adessive	Naurunál	—
illative	Nauruba	—
sublative	Naurura	—
allative	Nauruhoz	—
elative	Nauruból	—
delative	Naururól	—
ablative	Naurutól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Naurué	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Nauruéi	—

Possessive forms of Nauru
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Naurum	—
2nd person sing.	Naurud	—
3rd person sing.	Nauruja	—
1st person plural	Naurunk	—
2nd person plural	Naurutok	—
3rd person plural	Naurujuk	—

Derived terms

• naurui

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Italian

Proper noun

Nauru m

1. Nauru

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Japanese

Romanization

Nauru

1. Rōmaji transcription of ナウル

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Nauruan

Proper noun

Nauru

1. Naoero (an island and country in Oceania)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Nauru

1. Nauru

Related terms

• nauruer
• naurisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Nauru

1. Nauru

Related terms

• nauruar
• naurisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaw.ru/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -awru
• Syllabification: Nau‧ru

Proper noun

Nauru n (undeclinable)

1. Nauru (an island and country in Micronesia)

Derived terms

adjective

• nauruański

 

nouns

• Nauruanka
• Nauruańczyk

 

Further reading

• Nauru in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Nauru in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /nawˈɾu/ [naʊ̯ˈɾu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nawˈɾu/

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: Nau‧ru

Proper noun

Nauru m

1. Nauru (an island and country in Oceania)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnauru/

Proper noun

Nauru n

1. Nauru

Derived terms

• Nauručan m
• Nauručanka f
• nauruský
• naurusky

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnauɾu/ [ˈnau̯.ɾu]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -auɾu
• Syllabification: Nau‧ru

Proper noun

Nauru m

1. Nauru

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Swedish

Proper noun

Nauru n (genitive Naurus)

1. Nauru

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Turkish

Proper noun

Nauru

1. Nauru (a country in Oceania)

Declension

declension of Nauru

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Nauru
accusative (belirtme)	Nauru'yu
dative (yönelme)	Nauru'ya
locative (bulunma)	Nauru'da
ablative (çıkma)	Nauru'dan
genitive (tamlayan)	Nauru'nun

    possessive of Nauru

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Nauru'm	Naurularım / Nauru'larım
senin (your)	Nauru'n	Nauruların / Nauru'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Nauru'su	Nauruları / Nauru'ları
bizim (our)	Nauru'muz	Naurularımız / Nauru'larımız
sizin (your)	Nauru'nuz	Naurularınız / Nauru'larınız
onların (their)	Nauru'su / Nauruları / Nauru'ları	Nauruları / Nauru'ları

Derived terms

• Naurulu

See also

• (countries of Oceania) Okyanusya ülkesi; Avustralya, Cook Adaları, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Adaları, Mikronezya, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua Yeni Gine, Samoa, Solomon Adaları, Tonga, Tuvalu, VanuatuYeni Zelanda,

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Turkmen

Proper noun

Nauru

1. Nauru