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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.

palma f (plural palmes)

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

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

palma f (plural palmes)

  1. palm tree
    Synonyms: palmera, palmer
  2. palm leaf
  3. palm of the hand
    Synonym: palmell

Inherited from Spanish palma (“palm”).

palma

  1. palm (tree, branch)

palma f (relational adjective palmový)

  1. palm (tropical tree)

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

palma f (plural palmas)

  1. (anatomy) palm (of the handle)
    Garda o Medullo do valor a palma.
    Save the Core of value in the palm.
  2. (usually in the plural) claps
  3. palm leaf
  4. palm tree
    Synonym: palmeira

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

palma f (plural palme)

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

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

  1. (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.)
  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.

Borrowings

eques cum palmā (cavalryman with parma)

Collateral form of parma.

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

  1. ^ 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

Ultimately from Latin palma.

palma f (4th declension)

  1. palm tree

Borrowed from Latin palma.

palma (Jawi spelling ڤلما, plural **palma-palma or **palma2)

  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 m

  1. alternative form of palm

palma (etymology 1 sense 1)

palmy (etymology 1 sense 2)

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)

  1. (botany) palm tree (tropical tree)
    Hypernyms: drzewo < roślina
  2. (religion) Easter palm (traditional Easter bundle)
  3. (Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, Far Masovian, Seroczyn) synonym of marszałka (“wedding rod”)
    Hypernym: rózga

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

palma

  1. genitive singular of palm

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

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 f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of palmă

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)

  1. palm-tree

pȃlma f

  1. 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 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)

  1. palm of the hand
    Antonym: dorso
  2. palm tree
    Synonym: palmera
  3. palm leaf
  4. (Philippines) coconut palm
  5. (historical) alternative form of palmo (a traditional unit of length)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

palma

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