Pau

Pau

1. A city, the capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
2. A commune of the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.

• APU, AUP, PUA, UAP, UPA, pua

From Latin Paulus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpaw]
• Rhymes: -aw

Pau m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Paul

• Paula
• paulí

Possibly related to pieu (“stake, post”), or possibly related to pieux (“pious”), referring to a nearby ford named by the church. Or, possibly from a pre-Indo-European toponym *pal, *bal referring to its location at the foot of the mountains.

• IPA^(key): /po/

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Pau m or f

1. Pau (a city in France)

• palois (“of/from Pau”)
• Palois (“resident or native of Pau”)

• Saupiquet, Amédée (2004). negue, Princi (ed.). Petite histoire de Pau, la ville de Pau aux trois phases de son histoire.

Inherited from Middle Low German pâwe, pauwe, pâw, from Old Saxon pāo, *pāwo, from Proto-West Germanic *pāwō.

Pau m (plural Paus) (German Low German)

1. peacock
2. peafowl

   Dat Heken von ’n Pau hett bunte Steertfeddern.

   The male peafowl (peacock) has colorful tail feathers.

• Pageluun

• Fedder
• Heken
• Seken
• Vagel

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaw/

Pau m

1. Pau (a city in France)