palma

See also: Palma, pálma, palmá, Pálma, palmã, and palmă

English

Etymology

From Portuguese and Spanish palma. Doublet of palm, palmo, and pam.

Noun

palma (plural palmas)

(historical) Alternative form of palmo, traditional Portuguese and Spanish units of length.

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin palma.

Noun

palma f (plural palmes)

palm (inner, concave part of hand)
palm leaf

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/

Noun

palma f (plural palmes)

palm tree
Synonyms: palmera, palmer
palm leaf
palm of the hand
Synonym: palmell

Derived terms

palmell
palmer
palmera

Related terms

pam

References

“palma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“palma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
“palma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“palma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpalma]

Noun

palma f

palm (tropical tree)

Declension

Declension of palma

	singular	plural
nominative	palma	palmy
genitive	palmy	palm
dative	palmě	palmám
accusative	palmu	palmy
vocative	palmo	palmy
locative	palmě	palmách
instrumental	palmou	palmami

Derived terms

palmový

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese palma (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palma.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpalma̝/

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

(anatomy) palm (of the handl)
(usually in the plural) claps
palm tree
Synonym: palmeira
palm leaf

Related terms

palmada
palmeira
palmela
palmo

References

“palma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“palma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“palma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“palma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“palma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/
Rhymes: -alma
Hyphenation: pàl‧ma

Noun

palma f (plural palme)

palm tree, palm
palm (of the hand)
palm (corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal)

Related terms

Domenica delle palme
impalmare
olio di palma
palma da cocco
palma da dattero / palma da datteri
palma da olio
palma delle Canarie
sabal
palmare
palmato
palmeto
palmo

Anagrams

lampa

Latin

Pronunciation

palma: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpäɫ̪mä]

palma: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpälmä]
- Audio (Classical) (file)
palmā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.maː/, [ˈpäɫ̪mäː]

palmā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpälmä]
- Audio (Classical) (file)

Etymology 1

palma manūs (palm of the hand)

palma (palm tree)

From Proto-Italic *pəlmā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē), Old Irish lám, Old English folm, and Albanian shpall.

Noun

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

palm of the hand, hand
Synonym: palmus
blade of an oar
palm tree; date tree
(figuratively) victory
(Medieval Latin) a linear measure, palm, of various exact values throughout Europe but usually one quarter of the local foot.
Synonym: (Classical Latin) palmus

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palma	palmae
Genitive	palmae	palmārum
Dative	palmae	palmīs
Accusative	palmam	palmās
Ablative	palmā	palmīs
Vocative	palma	palmae

Derived terms

palmāris
palmārius
palmēnsis
palmes
palmētum
palmeus
palmiceus, palmicius
palmifer
palmiger
palmipēs
palmō
palmōsus
palmula
palmus

Related terms

palmārium
palmātus
palmipedālis
palmulāris

Descendants

Aromanian: palmã
Asturian: palma
Catalan: palma, palmell
Corsican: palma
Dalmatian: puolma
→ English: palm
→ Dutch: palm
French: paume
Friulian: palme
Galician: palma
Italian: palma
Occitan: palma, pauma
Piedmontese: palma
Portuguese: palma
Romanian: palmă
Sardinian: palma, parma, prama
Sicilian: pamma, parma, pàlma
Spanish: palma
Venetian: palma

Etymology 2

eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)

Collateral form of parma.

Alternative forms

parma

Noun

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

a parma; a small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry
(poetic) any shield
(poetic) a thraex

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palma	palmae
Genitive	palmae	palmārum
Dative	palmae	palmīs
Accusative	palmam	palmās
Ablative	palmā	palmīs
Vocative	palma	palmae

References

“palma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“palma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
palma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
palma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to award the prize to..: palmam deferre, dare alicui
- to win the prize: palmam ferre, auferre
“palma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“palma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Latvian

Noun

palma f (4th declension)

palm tree

Declension

Declension of palma (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	palma	palmas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	palmu	palmas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	palmas	palmu
dative (datīvs)	palmai	palmām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	palmu	palmām
locative (lokatīvs)	palmā	palmās
vocative (vokatīvs)	palma	palmas

Malay

Alternative forms

ڤلما‎

Etymology

Borrowed from English palm, from Latin palma.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /palma/
Rhymes: -alma, -ma, -a
Hyphenation: pal‧ma

Noun

palma (Jawi spelling ڤلما‎, plural palma-palma, informal 1st possessive palmaku, 2nd possessive palmamu, 3rd possessive palmanya)

palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Dutch palmen.

Verb

palma

a-infinitive form of palme

Noun

palma f

(non-standard since 1959) definite singular of palme

References

“palma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
“palma”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Anagrams

lampa

Polish

palma

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palma, from Proto-Italic *pəlmā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -alma
Syllabification: pal‧ma
Homophone: Palma

Noun

palma f (diminutive palemka)

palm tree
Easter palm

Declension

Declension of palma

	singular	plural
nominative	palma	palmy
genitive	palmy	palm
dative	palmie	palmom
accusative	palmę	palmy
instrumental	palmą	palmami
locative	palmie	palmach
vocative	palmo	palmy

Derived terms

adjective

palmowy

nouns

palmiarnia
palmiczka
palmożer

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.mɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.ma/ [ˈpaʊ̯.ma]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mɐ/ [ˈpaɫ.mɐ]

Rhymes: -almɐ, -awmɐ
Hyphenation: pal‧ma

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

palm (inner part of the hand)
clap (the act of striking the palms of the hands)
(in the plural) applause
palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)
Synonym: palmeira
(historical) Alternative form of palmo, a traditional unit of length

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpal.ma]

Noun

palma f

definite nominative/accusative singular of palmă

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pâːlma/
Hyphenation: pal‧ma

Noun

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

palm-tree

Declension

Declension of palma

	singular	plural
nominative	palma	palme
genitive	palme	pȃlmā / pȃlmī
dative	palmi	palmama
accusative	palmu	palme
vocative	palmo	palme
locative	palmi	palmama
instrumental	palmom	palmama

Derived terms

kȍkosova pȃlma
pȃlmin

Slovene

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /páːlma/

Noun

pȃlma f

palm (tree)

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	pálma
gen. sing.	pálme
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	pálma	pálmi	pálme
genitive (rodȋlnik)	pálme	pálm	pálm
dative (dajȃlnik)	pálmi	pálmama	pálmam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	pálmo	pálmi	pálme
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	pálmi	pálmah	pálmah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	pálmo	pálmama	pálmami

Spanish

palm of the hand

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpalma/ [ˈpal.ma]
Rhymes: -alma
Syllabification: pal‧ma

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo.

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

palm of the hand
Antonym: dorso
palm tree
Synonym: palmera
palm leaf
(historical) Alternative form of palmo, a traditional unit of length

Derived terms

aceite de palma
batir palmas
dar palmas
llevarse la palma
miel de palma
palma de la mano
palma fúnebre

Related terms

palmar
palmera
palmeta

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

palma

inflection of palmar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

palma

English

Etymology

Noun

Asturian

Etymology

Noun

Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

References

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

Declension

References

Latvian

Noun

Declension

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

Noun

References

Anagrams

Polish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Slovene

Pronunciation