doum palm

English

doum palm

Alternative forms

• dom palm, doom palm, dum palm

Etymology

Arabic دوم (dawm) + palm

Noun

doum palm (plural doum palms)

1. A palm tree of species Hyphaene thebaica, with edible oval fruit, native to northern Africa and countries of the Levant.
   • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 18:

     The country to the east of Derudeb [Sudan] was bleached and sere, and there were long grey cliffs and dom palms growing in the wadis.

Synonyms

• doum, gingerbread palm, gingerbread tree

Translations

Hyphaene thebaica

• Arabic: مُقْل m (muql), دَوْم m (dawm)
• Bura: gwarvà
• Catalan: palmera tebaica f
• Daura: gùrmo
• Dyula: simini
• Egyptian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: dumpalmo
• French: doum (fr) m, palmier doum d’Égypte (fr) m
• Fula: gelleehi, yellere, balol
• Gourmanchéma: paparigu
• Greek: φοίνικας ντουμ (foínikas ntoum)

  Ancient: κόϊξ m (kóïx)

• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hausa: aru
• Hebrew: דום מצרי m (dom mitsrí)
• Italian: palma dum f
• Karekare: gṑrifā̀
• Moore: kõn-bila
• Nawdm: laŋkpadga
• Ngizim: tā̀tàukurâm
• Spanish: palmera dum m
• Swahili: mkoma
• Tigre: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can

References

• Hyphaene thebaica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hyphaene thebaica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hyphaene thebaica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons