palara

Possibly from Malay perada (“tinsel; gold foil”), ultimately from Sanskrit पारद (pārada, “mercury; quicksilver”).

• IPA^(key): /pələˈɾa/, [pə.ləˈɾä]
• Hyphenation: pa‧la‧ra

palara

1. foil (thin aluminum or tin used to wrap food)

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈlaː.ra/, [päˈɫ̪äːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈla.ra/, [päˈläːrä]

palāra f (genitive palārae); first declension

1. An unknown kind of bird

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• “palara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Possibly from Malay perada (“tinsel; gold foil”), ultimately from Sanskrit पारद (pārada, “mercury; quicksilver”).

• Hyphenation: pa‧la‧ra
• IPA^(key): /palaˈɾaʔ/, [pɐ.lɐˈɾaʔ]

palarâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜇ)

1. foil (thin aluminum or tin used to wrap food)

   Synonym: oropel

• “palara”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 292