parau

From Proto-Vietic *pʰruːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁praw; cognate with Vietnamese sáu.

• IPA^(key): [parawˀ]

parau

1. six

• Michel Ferlus, 2014, Arem, a Vietic Language, Mon-Khmer Studies 43.1-15, page 5

From Malay parau, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀaw (“hoarse”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈparau̯]
• Hyphenation: pa‧rau

parau

1. hoarse.

   Synonyms: garau, serak

• “parau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary - *paRaw

From Proto-Austronesian *paʀaw (“hoarse”).

• IPA^(key): /parau̯/
• Rhymes: -arau̯

parau (Jawi spelling ڤاراو)

1. hoarse (of a voice)

   Synonyms: serak, garau, garuk

   Suara parau ― Hoarse voice

• Indonesian: parau

• “parau” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary - *paRaw

From Proto-Polynesian *palau (“to boast, brag”)^[1] from Proto-Polynesian *lau₂ (“to count, to recite, to read”).^[2] Sense of paper likely a contraction of ʻapi parau (“page [of a book]”, literally “fold of [written] speech”).

parau

1. word, speech, tongue
2. paper

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “parau” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.