palma

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

palma (plural palmas)

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

From Latin palma.

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

palma f (plural palmes)

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

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

palma f (plural palmes)

1. palm tree

   Synonyms: palmera, palmer

2. palm leaf
3. palm of the hand

   Synonym: palmell

• palmell
• palmer
• palmera

• palmat
• pam

• “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 Wikipedia has an article on:

palma

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• IPA^(key):

palma f (related adjective palmový)

1. palm (tropical tree)

• “palma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “palma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma̝/

palma f (plural palmas)

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

   Synonym: palmeira

4. palm leaf

• palmada
• palmeira
• palmela
• palmo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “palma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “palma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “palma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “palma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “palma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

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

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

palma f (plural palme)

1. palm tree, palm
2. palm (of the hand)
3. palm (corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal)

• lampa

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

From Proto-Italic *palamā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”).^[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē), Old Irish lám, Old English folm, and Albanian shpall.

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 hands to the stars, responds with such an expression : .
     (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

First-declension noun.

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: palmã
  • Megleno-Romanian: palmă
  • Romanian: palmă
• Gallo-Italic
  • Piedmontese: palma
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: palma
  • Dalmatian: puolma
  • Italian: palma
    • → Maltese: palm
  • Sicilian: parma, pamma
• Occitano-Romance
  • Catalan: palma, palmell
  • Occitan: palma, pauma
• Old French: paume, palme, pasme, paulme
  • Middle French: paulme
    • French: paume
  • Norman: paûmé
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: palme
• Sardinian: palma, parma, prama
• Venetan: palma
• West Iberian
  • Asturian: palma
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: palma
    • Galician: palma
    • Portuguese: palma
      • → English: palma
  • Spanish: palma
    • → English: palma

Borrowings

• → Azerbaijani: palma
• → Belarusian: пальма (palʹma)
• → Bulgarian: палма (palma)
• → Cornish: palv
• → Czech: palm
• → Estonian: palm
• → Georgian: პალმა (ṗalma)
• → Hungarian: pálma
• → Lao: ປາມ (pām)
• → Latvian: palm
• → Lithuanian: palmė
• → Macedonian: палма (palma)
• → Malayalam: പം (paṁ)
• → Old Dutch: palma
  • Middle Dutch: palme
    • Dutch: palm
      • → Caribbean Javanese: palem
      • → Indonesian: palem
• → Old English: palm (“palm tree”) (see there for further descendants)
• → Old French: palme
  • French: palme
    • → Romanian: palm
  • Norman: palme
  • → Middle Dutch: palme
    • Dutch: palm
• → Old High German: palm m, palma f
  • Middle High German: palme, balme
    • Central Franconian:
      • Hunsrik: Palme, Pallem
    • German: Palme
• → Old Norse: palmi
  • Faroese: pálmi
  • Icelandic: pálmi
  • Danish: palme
  • Norwegian Bokmål: palme
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: palme
  • Old Swedish: palma
    • Swedish: palm
      • → Finnish: palmu
• → Polish: palma
• → Russian: пальма (palʹma) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: palma, палма
• → Slovak: palma
• → Slovene: palma
• → Turkish: palmiye
• → Turkmen: palma
• → Ukrainian: пальма (palʹma)
• → Uyghur: پالما (palma)
• → Uzbek: palma
• → Welsh: palf

Collateral form of parma.

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• “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

palma f (4th declension)

1. palm tree

• ڤلما

Borrowed from English palm, from Latin palma.

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

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)

From Dutch palmen.

palma

1. a-infinitive form of palme

palma f

1. (non-standard since 1959) definite singular of palme

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

• lampa

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

palma

Wikipedia ^pl

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/

• Audio:

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

palma f (diminutive palemka)

1. palm tree
2. Easter palm

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

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

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

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

• → English: palma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

palma

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

• IPA^(key):

palma f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of palmă

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

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

1. palm-tree

• kȍkosova pȃlma
• pȃlmin

• IPA^(key): /páːlma/

pȃlma f

1. palm (tree)

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• “palma”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alma
• Syllabification: pal‧ma

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

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)

• → English: palma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

palma

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

• “palma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28