# palma
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

palma (plural palmas)
* (historical) Alternative form of palmo, traditional Portuguese and Spanish units of length.

### See also

* palma Christi

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin palma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpalma/ [ˈpal.ma]
* Rhymes: -alma
* Hyphenation: pal‧ma

### Noun

palma f (plural palmes)
* palm (inner, concave part of hand)
* palm leaf

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpal.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpal.ma]

### Noun

palma f (plural palmes)
* palm tree
    Synonyms: palmera, palmer
* palm leaf
* 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, 2025
* “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: [ˈpalma]

### Noun

palma f (relational adjective palmový)
* palm (tropical tree)

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpalma/ [ˈpɑl.mɐ]
* Rhymes: -alma
* Hyphenation: pal‧ma

### Noun

palma f (plural palmas)
* (anatomy) palm (of the handl)
* (usually in the plural) claps
* palm leaf
* palm tree
    Synonym: palmeira

#### Related terms

* palmada
* palmeira
* palmela
* palmo

### References

* 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: 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

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpal.ma/
* Rhymes: -alma
* Hyphenation: pàl‧ma

### Noun

palma f (plural palme)
* palm tree, palm
* palm (of the hand)
* 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
* palmare
* palmato
* palmeto
* palmo
* sabal

### Anagrams

* lampa

## Latin
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

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
* 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.)
* 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

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* palmāris
* palmārius
* palmēnsis
* palmes
* palmētum
* palmeus
* palmiceus
* palmicius
* palmifer
* palmiger
* palmipēs
* palmō
* palmōsus
* palmula
* palmus

##### Related terms

* palmārium
* palmātus
* palmipedālis
* palmulāris

##### Descendants

* 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

### Etymology 2

Collateral form of parma.

#### Noun

palma f (genitive palmae); first declension
* Alternative form of parma (“small shield”)

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

### References

* ↑ 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

### Further reading

* “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

## Latvian
### Noun

palma f (4th declension)
* palm tree

#### Declension
## Malay
### Alternative forms

* ڤلما

### Etymology

Borrowed from English palm, from Latin palma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* palm tree (any tree of the family Arecaceae)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Dutch palmen.

#### Verb

palma
* a-infinitive form of palme

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

palma f
* (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
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpal.ma/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alma
* Syllabification: pal‧ma
* Homophone: Palma

### Noun

palma f (diminutive palemka)
* palm tree
* Easter palm

#### Derived terms

* palmowy
* 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: /ˈpaw.mɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpaw.mɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpaw.ma/ [ˈpaʊ̯.ma]
* (Portugal) IPA: /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)
* 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

##### Descendants

* → English: palma

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

palma
* inflection of palmar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpal.ma]

### Noun

palma f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of palmă

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pâːlma/
* Hyphenation: pal‧ma

### Noun

pȃlma f (Cyrillic spelling па̑лма)
* palm-tree

#### Derived terms

* kȍkosova pȃlma
* pȃlmin

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /páːlma/

### Noun

pȃlma f
* palm (tree)

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “palma”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* palm of the hand
    Antonym: dorso
* palm tree
    Synonym: palmera
* palm leaf
* (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

##### Descendants

* → English: palma

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

palma
* inflection of palmar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “palma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10