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From Portuguese and Spanish palma. Doublet of palm, palmo, and pam.
palma (plural palmas)
- (historical) Alternative form of palmo, traditional Portuguese and Spanish units of length.
palma f (plural palmes)
Inherited from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.
palma f (plural palmes)
- palmell
- palmer
- palmera
- palmat
- pam
- “palma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “palma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “palma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “palma”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Inherited from Spanish palma (“palm”).
palma
- palm (tree, branch)
palma f (relational adjective palmový)
- palm (tropical tree)
- “palma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “palma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese palma (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palma.
palma f (plural palmas)
- (anatomy) palm (of the handle)
Garda o Medullo do valor a palma.
Save the Core of value in the palm. - (usually in the plural) claps
- palm leaf
- palm tree
Synonym: palmeira
Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “palma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “palma”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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
From Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂.
palma f (plural palme)
palma:
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpaɫ.ma]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpal.ma]
- Hyphenation: pal‧ma
palmā:
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpaɫ.maː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpal.ma]
- Hyphenation: pal‧mā
palma manūs (palm of the hand)
palma (palm tree)
Inherited from Proto-Italic *palamā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”).[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek πᾰλᾰ́μη (pălắmē), Old Irish lám, Old English folm, Albanian shpall.
palma f (genitive palmae); first declension
- (anatomy) palm of the hand, hand
Synonyms: vola, palmus, palpus- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 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.)
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.93–94:
- 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
First-declension noun.
Eastern Romance
Gallo-Italic
- Piedmontese: palma
Italo-Dalmatian
Occitano-Romance
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: palme
Venetan: palma
West Iberian
Borrowings
- → Azerbaijani: palma
- → Belarusian: пальма (palʹma)
- → Bulgarian: палма (palma)
- → Czech: palm
- → Estonian: palm
- → Georgian: პალმა (ṗalma)
- → Hungarian: pálma
- → Lao: ປາມ (pām)
- → Latvian: palm
- → Lithuanian: palmė
- → Macedonian: палма (palma)
- → Malayalam: പം (paṁ)
- → Malay: palma, ڤلما
- → Old Dutch: palma
- → Old English: palm (“palm tree”) (see there for further descendants)
- → Old French: palme
- → Old High German: palm m, palma f
- → Old Norse: palmi
- → 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
- → Proto-Brythonic: *palβ̃
eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)
Collateral form of parma.
palma f (genitive palmae); first declension
- alternative form of parma (“small shield”)
First-declension noun.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “palma”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 441
- “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, 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
palma f (4th declension)
palma (Jawi spelling ڤلما, plural **palma-palma or **palma2)
palma
- a-infinitive form of palme
palma f
- “palma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “palma”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
- lampa
palma m
- alternative form of palm
palma (etymology 1 sense 1)
palmy (etymology 1 sense 2)
(Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpal.ma/, /ˈpɒl.ma/
(Masovia):
- (Far Masovian) IPA(key): [ˈpal.ma]
-
- (Western Lublin) IPA(key): [ˈpalʲ.ma]
- (Eastern Lublin) IPA(key): [ˈpalʲ.ma]
Rhymes: -alma
Syllabification: pal‧ma
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Old Polish palma
Polish palma
Inherited from Old Polish palma, a learned borrowing from Latin palma.
palma f (diminutive palemka, related adjective palmowy)
- (botany) palm tree (tropical tree)
Hypernyms: drzewo < roślina - (religion) Easter palm (traditional Easter bundle)
- (Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, Far Masovian, Seroczyn) synonym of marszałka (“wedding rod”)
Hypernym: rózga
For etymology 1 sense 2, it is often disambiguated as palma wielkanocna.
palma odbiła pf, palma odbija impf
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
palma
“palma”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “palma”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 229
Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “1. PALMA”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “2. [PALMA]”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Paweł Kupiszewski (28 January 2016), “PALMA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Samuel Bogumił Linde (1811), “palma”, in Słownik języka polskiego, volume 2b, page 616
Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “palma”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861, volume II, page 959
A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “palma”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 21
palma in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Woliński, Marcin; Saloni, Zygmunt; Wołosz, Robert; Gruszczyński, Włodzimierz; Skowrońska, Danuta; Bronk, Zbigniew (2020), “palma”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish][4], 4. online edition, Warszawa
(Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.mɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.ma/ [ˈpaʊ̯.ma]
Hyphenation: pal‧ma
From Old Galician-Portuguese palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo
palma f (plural palmas)
- palm (inner part of the hand)
palma da mão ― palm of the hand - (usually in the plural) 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
- → English: palma
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
palma
- inflection of palmar:
- “palma”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “palma”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- IPA(key): [ˈpal.ma]
palma f
pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)
- kȍkosova pȃlma
- pȃlmin
- IPA(key): /páːlma/
pȃlma f
- palm (tree)
| 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 |
- “palma”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026
palma de la mano (palm of the hand)
Inherited from Old Spanish palma, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palmo.
palma f (plural palmas)
- palm of the hand
Antonym: dorso - palm tree
Synonym: palmera - palm leaf
- (Philippines) coconut palm
- (historical) alternative form of palmo (a traditional unit of length)
→ English: palma
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
palma
- inflection of palmar:
- “palma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025