palm tree - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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From Middle English palmetre, from Old English palmtrēow (“palm tree”), equivalent to palm + tree. Compare Danish palmetræ (“palm tree”), Swedish palmträd (“palm tree”), Norwegian palmetre (“palm tree”), Icelandic pálmatré (“palm tree”).
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palm tree (plural palm trees)
- A tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand.
Synonym: palm
Hypernym: tree
Hyponym: coconut palm
tropical tree
Acholi: otit
Akan: (palm) abε
Aramaic: דִּקְלָא
Belarusian: па́льма f (pálʹma)
Bulgarian: па́лма f (pálma)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 棕櫚 / 棕榈 (zung1 leoi4)
Eastern Min: 棕樹 / 棕树 (cĕ̤ng-chéu)
Hakka: 棕樹 / 棕树 (chûng-su)
Hokkien: 棕樹 / 棕树 (chang-chhiū)
Mandarin: 棕櫚 / 棕榈 (zh) (zōnglǘ)Crimean Tatar: nehl
Faroese: pálmi m
Georgian: პალმა (ṗalma)
Greek: φοίνικας (el) m (foínikas)
Ancient Greek: φοῖνιξ m (phoînix)Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) jata'i, (please verify) karanda, (please verify) karanda'y, (please verify) mbokaja, (please verify) pindoGujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: pāma
Ingrian: paljma
Interlingua: palma
Irish: pailm f
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: пальма (palma)
Khmer: តាលព្រឹក្ស (taala’ prɨk)
Kyrgyz: пальма (palma)
Lao: ປາມ (pām)
Latvian: palma f
Lithuanian: palmė f
Macedonian: палма f (palma)
Malayalam: പം മരം (paṁ maraṁ)
Maltese: palm
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дал мод (dal mod), хялгаст мод (xjalgast mod)
Mongolian script: ᠳ᠋ᠠᠯ ᠮᠣᠳᠤ (dal modu), ᠬᠢᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤᠲᠦ ᠮᠣᠳᠤ (kilɣasutü modu)Navajo: atʼaʼ yiltʼąąʼí
Newar: ताय्गःसिमा (tæga:simā)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: palme (no) m, palmetre n
Nynorsk: palme m, palmetre nOdia: ତାଳଗଛ (tāḷagacha)
Old English: palmtrēow n
Oromo: meexxii
Sikkimese: ཏ་ལ (ta la)
Slovak: palma f
Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: нахл (naxl)
Tausug: nipa
Telugu: తాటిచెట్టు (te) (tāṭiceṭṭu)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkmen: palma
Urdu: please add this translation if you can
Uyghur: پالما (palma)
Welsh: palmwydd f pl
Yoruba: ọ̀pẹ
Zulu: please add this translation if you can