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)

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

See also

• palma Christi

 

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin palma.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

palma f (plural palmes)

1. palm (inner, concave part of hand)
2. palm leaf

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpal.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpal.ma]

Noun

palma f (plural palmes)

1. palm tree

   Synonyms: palmera, palmer

2. palm leaf
3. palm of the hand

   Synonym: palmell

Derived terms

• palmell
• palmer
• palmera

Related terms

• palmat
• 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, 2024
• “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 (related adjective palmový)

1. palm (tropical tree)

Declension

Declension of palma (hard feminine reducible)

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

Further reading

• palma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• palma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma̝/

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

1. (anatomy) palm (of the handl)
2. (usually in the plural) claps
3. palm tree

   Synonym: palmeira

4. 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)

1. palm tree, palm
2. palm (of the hand)
3. 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpäɫ̪mä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/, [ˈpälmä]

Etymology 1

palma manūs (palm of the hand)

palma (palm tree)

From Proto-Italic *palamā, 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

1. palm of the hand, hand

   Synonym: palmus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.93–94:

     ingemit, et duplicīs tendēns ad sīdera palmās
     tālia vōce refert: [...].

     Groaning, and extending both [his] hands to the stars, [Aeneas] responds with such an expression [of his fear]: [...].
     (Facing imminent death at sea, Aeneas invokes the gods, raising his hands with the palms facing upward as if to receive divine blessing.)

2. blade of an oar
3. palm tree; date tree
4. (figuratively) victory
5. (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: parma
• Spanish: palma
• Venetian: palma
• → Welsh: palf

Etymology 2

eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)

Collateral form of parma.

Noun

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

1. Alternative form of parma (“small shield”)

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^[1], 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)

1. 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)

1. palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Dutch palmen.

Verb

palma

1. a-infinitive form of palme

Etymology 2

Noun

palma f

1. (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:

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• Rhymes: -alma
• Syllabification: pal‧ma
• Homophone: Palma

Noun

palma f (diminutive palemka)

1. palm tree
2. 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

 

Further reading

• palma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• palma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.mɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mɐ]

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

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

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -almɐ, (Brazil) -awmɐ
• Hyphenation: pal‧ma

Etymology 1

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

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

1. palm (inner part of the hand)

   palma da mão ― palm of the hand

2. (usually in the plural) clap (the act of striking the palms of the hands)
3. (in the plural) applause
4. palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)

   Synonym: palmeira

5. (historical) Alternative form of palmo, a traditional unit of length

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

palma

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpal.ma]

Noun

palma f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of palmă

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

1. 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

1. palm (tree)

Inflection

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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

Further reading

• “palma”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

palm of the hand

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma/ [ˈpal.ma]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alma
• Syllabification: pal‧ma

Etymology 1

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

Noun

palma f (plural palmas)

1. palm of the hand

   Antonym: dorso

2. palm tree

   Synonym: palmera

3. palm leaf
4. (historical) Alternative form of palmo (a traditional unit of length)

Derived terms

• aceite de palma
• batir palmas
• cera de palma
• dar palmas
• llevarse la palma
• miel de palma
• palma barrigona
• palma canaria
• palma de abanico
• palma de coco
• palma de Guinea
• palma de sagú
• palma del martirio
• palma fúnebre

 

Related terms

• palmar
• palmera
• palmeta

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

palma

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

Further reading

• “palma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014