pallet

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpælɪt/
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• US: /ˈpælɪt/
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• US: /ˈpælət/
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• Australian: /ˈpælət/
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• rhymes with -ælɪt
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• homophone: palate
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• homophone: palette
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• homophone: pallette
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• CMU ARPABET: P AE1 L AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”).

Learned borrowing from French palette.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aragonese: cherga — straw bed
• Bulgarian: сламеник (slamenik) — straw bed
• Chinese Mandarin: 稻草鋪 /稻草铺 — straw bed
• Chinese Mandarin: 草褥 — straw bed
• Chinese Mandarin: 草床 — straw bed
• Finnish: olkivuode — straw bed
• French: paillasse — straw bed
• Ancient Greek: κράββατος (krábbatos) — straw bed
• Irish: leaba chocháin — straw bed
• Irish: leaba shoip — straw bed
• Irish: leaba thuí — straw bed
• Irish: sráideog — straw bed
• Italian: pagliericcio — straw bed
• Italian: giaciglio — straw bed
• Italian: saccone — straw bed
• Italian: stramazzo — straw bed
• Latin: grabātus — straw bed
• Macedonian: сламарица (slamarica) — straw bed
• Polish: siennik — straw bed
• Portuguese: enxerga — straw bed
• Russian: соломенная постель (solómennaja postélʹ) — straw bed
• Spanish: jerga — straw bed
• Spanish: jergón — straw bed
• Chinese Mandarin: 地鋪 /地铺 (dìpù) — improvised bed
• Chinese Mandarin: 臨時鋪位 /临时铺位 (línshí pùwèi) — improvised bed
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡陋床鋪 /简陋床铺 (jiǎnlòu chuángpù) — improvised bed
• Irish: sráideog — improvised bed
• Polish: barłóg — improvised bed
• Polish: legowisko — improvised bed
• Polish: leże — improvised bed
• Polish: siennik — improvised bed
• Polish: wyro — improvised bed
• Afrikaans: palet — portable platform
• Bulgarian: палет (palet) — portable platform
• Catalan: palet — portable platform
• Chinese Mandarin: 托盤 /托盘 (tuōpán) — portable platform
• Chinese Mandarin: 托板 (tuōbǎn) — portable platform
• Chinese Mandarin: 拖板 (tuōbǎn) — portable platform
• Chinese Mandarin: 貨盤 /货盘 (huòpán) — portable platform
• Chinese Mandarin: 棧板 /栈板 (zhànbǎn) — portable platform
• Czech: paleta — portable platform
• Danish: palle — portable platform
• Danish: europalle — portable platform
• Dutch: pallet — portable platform
• Esperanto: paledo — portable platform
• Estonian: alus — portable platform
• Estonian: euroalus — portable platform
• Estonian: kaubaalus — portable platform
• Faroese: plattur — portable platform
• Finnish: kuormalava — portable platform
• Finnish: lava — portable platform
• French: palette — portable platform
• German: Palette — portable platform
• Ancient Greek: ἀσκάντης (askántēs) — portable platform
• Hungarian: raklap — portable platform
• Italian: bancale — portable platform
• Italian: pallet — portable platform
• Japanese: パレット (paretto) — portable platform
• Latvian: paliktne — portable platform
• Macedonian: пале́та (paléta) — portable platform
• Māori: pārete — portable platform
• Norwegian Bokmål: pall — portable platform
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pall — portable platform
• Polish: paleta — portable platform
• Portuguese: palete — portable platform
• Russian: поддо́н (poddón) — portable platform
• Russian: пале́та (paléta) — portable platform
• Slovak: paleta — portable platform
• Spanish: palé — portable platform
• Spanish: pallet — portable platform
• Spanish: pálet — portable platform
• Spanish: palet — portable platform
• Swedish: lastpall — portable platform
• Swedish: pall — portable platform
• Tagalog: paleta — portable platform