pelma

From Ancient Greek πέλμᾰ (pélmă).

pelma (plural pelmata)

1. (ornithology) The undersurface of the foot.

• sole

• “pelma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Mapel, Maple, Palme, ample, maple

• pelme (e-infinitive)
• pælme, pælma (dialectal)
• (to gulp down): belma

From either English palm or German Low German pelmen.

pelma (present tense pelmar, past tense pelma, past participle pelma, passive infinitive pelmast, present participle pelmande, imperative pelma/pelm)

1. (colloquial) to throw
2. (colloquial) to slam, punch, hit, strike
3. (colloquial) to gulp down

• (to throw): kasta, hiva
• (to slam, punch, etc.): dra til, slå til

• pelma til

• “pelma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Uncertain. Cf. Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma). Or a shortening of pelmazo, possibly from Latin pegma, from Ancient Greek πῆγμα (pêgma). Cf. also Romanian piemn, pielm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpelma/ [ˈpel.ma]
• Rhymes: -elma
• Syllabification: pel‧ma

pelma m or f by sense (plural pelmas)

1. (colloquial) bore

• “pelma”, 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