indicate the level to which a name has been verified.Type Country & Island
Usage English, Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Scripts Նաուրու(Armenian) Науру(Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Tajik, Ukrainian) নাউরু(Bengali) ნაურუ(Georgian) नाउरु(Hindi) ナウル(Japanese) 나우루(Korean Hangul) ນາອູຣູ(Lao) นาอูรู(Thai)
Pronounced Pron. /nɑː.ˈuː.ɹuː/(English) /ˈnaʊ.ɹu/(English) /nɑ.ˈu.ɾu/(Armenian) /ˈnɑu̯.ru/(Finnish) /na.u.ʁu/(French) /na.u.ru/(Georgian) /na.ˈuː.ʁu/(German) /ˈnɒ.u.ru/(Hungarian) /nä.ɯᵝ.ɾɯᵝ/(Japanese) /na.u.ɾu/(Korean) /na.ˈu.ɾu/(Macedonian) /ˈnaw.ru/(Polish) /naw.ˈɾu/(Portuguese) /nɐ.ˈu.rʊ/(Russian, Ukrainian) /ˈnau.ɾu/(Spanish) /naː˧.ʔuː˧.ˈruː˧/(Thai) [key·simplify]
Meaning & History
Possibly derived from Nauruan anáoero meaning "I go to the beach". This is the name of an island country in Oceania.