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/ [ˈpal.ma]
• Rhymes: -alma
• Syllabification: 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) [ˈpal.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpal.ma]

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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 [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.
• “palma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpalma]

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palma f (relational 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma/ [ˈpɑl.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -alma
• Hyphenation: pal‧ma

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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, 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.)

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

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, 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

Ultimately from Latin palma.

palma f (4th declension)

1. palm tree

• ڤلما

Borrowed from Latin palma.

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

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

• lampa

palma m

1. alternative form of palm

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

Inherited from Old Polish palma, a learned borrowing from Latin palma.

palma f (diminutive palemka, related adjective palmowy)

2. (botany) palm tree (tropical tree)

   Hypernyms: drzewo < roślina

4. (religion) Easter palm (traditional Easter bundle)
5. (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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

palma

1. genitive singular of palm

• palma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• palma in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• 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
• “palma”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022

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• 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

• “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

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)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma/ [ˈpal.ma]

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• 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. (Philippines) coconut palm
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

• “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