Ngerulmud

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The capital city of Palau in which the government offices are located.

Word forms

Ngerulmud

Etymology

Borrowed from Palauan Ngerulmud (“place of fermented angelfish”), referring to a nearby hill where women offered fermented angelfish as sacrifices to the gods.

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