palas

From Hindi पलाश (palāś), from Sanskrit.

• palasa, palash, pulas

palas (plural palases)

1. A tree of eastern India and Burma, Butea monosperma.

   Synonyms: dhak, flame of the forest

   • 2005, Bhojraj Dwivedi, Environmental Vaastu, page 162:

     The Dhak or Palas is a familiar wild tree and is common throughout the greater part of India except in drier parts.

   • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

     The tea garden lay in the foothills of Bhutan and got its name from the many palash trees that stood tall among the undulating green sea of tea bushes.

palas

1. plural of pala

• alaps, lapas, palsa, plaas, salpa

• Hyphenation: pa‧las
• IPA^(key): /paˈlas/ [paˈl̪as]

palás

1. a type of butcher knife for slitting animal's throat

From Arabic بَلَصَ (balaṣa).

palas I (present pkyiplos) (transitive)

1. to press, to squash, to crush
2. to run over

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 165

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

palas m

1. palace

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

palas

1. (anatomy) spleen

pālās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of pālō

pālās

1. accusative plural of pāla

• palas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “palas”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• pala in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

palas

1. plural of pala

Borrowed from French palace.

palas n (plural palasuri)

1. luxury hotel

• palas in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

palas f pl

1. plural of pala

Borrowed from French palace.

• IPA^(key): /paˈɫas/
• Hyphenation: pa‧las

palas (definite accusative palası, plural palaslar)

1. luxury hotel
2. (archaic) palace

   Synonym: saray

Borrowed from Old French palais, from Latin palātium.

palas m (plural palasau)

1. palace

• palasaidd

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “palas”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies