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English

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Palm

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Pronunciation

(England, Wales) enPR: päm, IPA^(key): /pɑːm/
(US) enPR: päm, pälm, IPA^(key): /pɑm/, /pɑlm/, /pɔm/, /pɔlm/, (archaic) /pæm/^[1]
Audio (US): (file)
(Canada) IPA^(key): [pɑːm], [pɒːm]
(Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈpæm/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈpam/
Rhymes: -ɑːm, -ɑːlm, -ɔːm, -ɔːlm, -æm

Etymology 1

From Middle English palme, from Old English palm, palma (“palm-tree, palm-branch”), from Latin palma (“palm-tree, palm-branch, palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, *pl̥h₂emeh₂ (“palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Dutch palm, German Palme, Danish palme, Icelandic pálmur (“palm”).

Noun

palm (plural palms)

Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
Synonym: palm tree
A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 7:9:
  A great multitude […] stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palmes in their hands.
(figurative, by extension) Triumph; victory.
(scouting) Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.

Alternative forms

(Scouting award): Palm

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Malay: palma, ڤلما

Translations

palm tree — see palm tree

Etymology 2

palm

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From Middle English palme, paume, from Old French palme, paulme, paume (“palm of the hand, ball, tennis”), from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand-breadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂(e)meh₂ (“palm of the hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Doublet of palmo, palma, and pam. Cognate with Ancient Greek παλάμη (palámē, “palm of the hand”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”), Old Irish lám (“hand”).

Noun

palm (plural palms)

The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
Synonym: loof

Antonym: hardel
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 179:
  [She] flung herself / Down on the great King's couch, and writhed upon it, / And clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm, / And shriek'd out 'traitor' to the unhearing wall, […]
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Further to Fly”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:
  The open palm of desire wants everything.
The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
(historical) Synonym of hand, any of various units of length notionally derived from the breadth of the palm, formalized in England as 4 inches and now chiefly used for the height of horses
- 1931, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Outpost of Empire: The Story of the Founding of San Francisco:
  He found it to be ninety-five fathoms wide, and five palms deep at a place of average depth
(historical) Any of various units of length notionally derived from the length of the palm from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
(sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
- 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 168:
  They watched until the younger bull received a second cut, this one on his flank from a point on the brow palm that would have impaled him if he hadn't jumped out of the way.
(nautical) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

Derived terms

Translations

inner, concave part of hand

Albanian: pëllëmbë (sq) f, pllâmë f (Gheg)
Arabic: رَاحَة f (rāḥa), كَف m (kaf)
Egyptian Arabic: بَطْن إِيد f (baṭn ʔīd)

Hijazi Arabic: كَفّ m (kaff)
Armenian: ափ (hy) (apʻ)
Aromanian: palmã f
Assamese: হাতৰ তলুৱা (hator tolua), কৰতল (korotol), তলুৱা (tolua) (of hand or foot)
Asturian: palma (ast) f
Avar: хъат (qxat)
Azerbaijani: ovuc (az), kəfə, aya
Bashkir: ус (us)
Belarusian: дало́нь f (dalónʹ)
Bengali: করতল (bn) (korotol)
Bhojpuri: हथेली (hathēlī)
Bikol Central: palad (bcl)
Breton: boz (br)
Bulgarian: длан (bg) f (dlan)
Burmese: ဖဝါး (my) (hpa.wa:), လက်ဝါး (my) (lak-wa:)
Buryat: альган (alʹgan)
Catalan: palmell (ca) m
Cebuano: palad
Central Dusun: palad
Chichewa: chikato
Chinese:
Cantonese: 手板 (sau² baan²)

Mandarin: 手掌 (zh) (shǒuzhǎng)
Classical Nahuatl: mācpalli
Coptic: ϣⲟⲡ m (šop), ϩⲓⲟⲙⲉ f (hiome)
Czech: dlaň (cs) f
Dalmatian: puolma f
Danish: håndflade (da) c
Dutch: palm (nl) m, handpalm (nl) m
Egyptian:

(šzp m)
Esperanto: manplato (eo), polmo (eo)
Estonian: kämmal
Evenki: ханңга
Faroese: lógvi m
Finnish: kämmen (fi)
French: paume (fr) f
Friulian: palme f
Galician: palma (gl) f
Georgian: ხელისგული (xelisguli)
German: Handfläche (de) f, Handteller (de) m
Gothic: 𐌻𐍉𐍆𐌰 m (lōfa)
Greek: παλάμη (el) f (palámi)
Ancient: παλάμη f (palámē), θέναρ n (thénar)
Gujarati: હથેલી f (hathelī)
Hebrew: כַּף יָד (he) f (kaf yád), כַּף (he) f (kaf)
Higaonon: palad
Hindi: हथेली (hi) f (hathelī)
Hungarian: tenyér (hu), (especially the bent palm for grasping) marok (hu)
Icelandic: lófi (is) m
Ido: palmo (io)
Ilocano: dakulap
Indonesian: telapak tangan
Ingrian: kämmen, kämmel
Irish: bos f, dearna f
Italian: palmo (it) m
Japanese: 手のひら (てのひら, tenohira), 掌 (ja) (てのひら, tenohira)
Kalmyk: альхн (alʹxn)
Karakalpak: alaqan
Kazakh: алақан (alaqan)
Khakas: айа (aya)
Khiamniungan Naga: phōhmông
Khmer: ប្រអប់ដៃ (prɑʼɑp day), បាតដៃ (baat day)
Korean: 손바닥 (ko) (sonbadak)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: لەپ (lep), مِست (ckb) (mist)

Northern Kurdish: kefa destî, kef (ku) f
Kyrgyz: алакан (ky) (alakan)
Lao: ຝ່າ (fā)
Latgalian: plauksts m
Latin: palma (la) f, palpus m
Latvian: plauksta (lv) f, delna (lv) f
Lithuanian: delnas m
Macedonian: дланка f (dlanka)
Malay: tapak tangan (ms), telapak tangan
Manchu: ᡶᠠᠯᠠᠩᡤᡡ (falanggū)
Marathi: तळहात (taḷhāt)
Megleno-Romanian: palmă f
Mongolian: алга (mn) (alga)
Nanai: пайнга (pajŋa)
Navajo: álátłʼááh
Nepali: हत्केला (hatkelā)
Nogai: ая (aya)
Norman: paûmé m (Jersey), paumet m (Guernsey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: håndflate (no) m or f, handflate m or f

Nynorsk: handflate f
Occitan: palma (oc) f, pauma (oc) f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: длань f (dlanĭ)

Glagolitic: ⰴⰾⰰⱀⱐ f (dlanĭ)
Old English: handbred n
Old Norse: lófi m
Ossetian: армытъӕпӕн (armyt’æpæn)
Ottoman Turkish: كف (keff), آیا (aya)
Pashto: خپړ (ps) f (xapᶕṛ), کف m (kaf)
Pawnee: ikskakusiriʼ, ikskatahcuʼ
Persian: کف (fa) (kaf), هبک (fa) sg (habk~ habak)
Polish: dłoń (pl) f
Portuguese: palma (pt) f, palma da mão f
Quechua: maki pampan
Romanian: palmă (ro) f
Russian: ладо́нь (ru) f (ladónʹ), до́лонь (ru) f (dólonʹ) (dialectal), длань (ru) f (dlanʹ) (archaic or poetic)
S'gaw Karen: စုညါသး (su nyah thä)
Saraiki: تَلّی (skr) f (tallī)
Sardinian: palma f, parma, prama
Scottish Gaelic: bas f, cròg f
Sechelt: péḵ-álh-úya
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дла̏н m

Roman: dlȁn (sh) m
Shan: ၽႃႇ (shn) (phàa)
Shor: алаққан (alaqqan)
Sicilian: palma (scn) f, pamma (scn) f, pàlma f, parma (scn) f
Slovak: dlaň (sk) f
Slovene: dlan (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dłoń f

Upper Sorbian: dłóń f
Southern Altai: алакан (alakan)
Southern Kalinga: parad, agpar
Spanish: palma (es) f, palma de la mano f
Swahili: kikofi (sw), kiganja (sw)
Swedish: handflata (sv) c
Tagalog: palad
Tajik: каф (tg) (kaf)
Tamil: உள்ளங்கை (ta) (uḷḷaṅkai)
Tatar: уч (tt) (uç)
Tausug: pad
Telugu: అరచేయి (te) (aracēyi)
Ternate: saha
Thai: ฝ่า (th) (fàa)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tigrinya: ከብዲ ኢድ (käbdi ʾid)
Tooro: ekiganja class 7
Tupinambá: poapytera
Turkish: aya (tr), avuç içi (tr)
Turkmen: aýa (tk)
Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎔 (kp)
Ukrainian: доло́ня (uk) f (dolónja), доло́нь f (dolónʹ)
Urdu: ہتھیلی f (hatheli)
Uyghur: ئالقان (alqan)
Uzbek: kaft (uz)
Venetan: palma f
Vietnamese: gan bàn tay, lòng bàn tay (vi)
Volapük: namakev (vo)
Welsh: cledr f
West Frisian: bal (fan 'e hân), hânpalm
White Hmong: xib teg
Wolof: ténq
Xhosa: intende
Yakut: ытыс (ıtıs)
Yiddish: דלאָניע f (dlonye)
Zazaki: lep
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: ukhweshe (zu) class 11/10

corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal

Finnish: kämmen (fi)
Hebrew: כַּף (he) f (kaf)
Japanese: (cat) 肉球 (ja) (にくきゅう, nikukyū)
Swahili: kikofi (sw), kiganja (sw)

broad flattened part of an antler

Finnish: lapio (fi), lapa (fi)
French: empaumure (fr) f

Verb

palm (third-person singular simple present palms, present participle palming, simple past and past participle palmed)

To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
John palmed the ball.
To move something with the palm of the hand.
- 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC‎^[2]:
  The home side's goalkeeper Asmir Begovic managed to palm the drive on to the post but the sheer pace of the shot forced the ball into the net.
(intransitive, transitive) To use one's palm as identification to get through a door or security checkpoint.
I palmed in to work.

She palmed the door as she talked to the security guard.
(UK, slang, obsolete, transitive) To bribe.
- 1845, George Smeeton, Doings in London, page 78:
  He never again appeared in the house where practices of this description are carried on every night, and where officers of the police are palmed (bribed) for their forbearance.

Derived terms

Translations

to hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand

Finnish: piilottaa kämmeneensä
Hungarian: tenyerébe rejt
Japanese: 握る (ja) (にぎる, nigiru); (sentence) 手のひらに隠す (てのひららにかくす, te no hira ni kakusu)
Portuguese: empalmar (pt), palmar (pt)
Turkish: avuçlamak (tr)
Zazaki: lep kerden

to hold something without bending the fingers

Finnish: pitää kämmenellä
Japanese: (sentence) 手のひらで持つ (ja) (てのひららでもつ, te no hira de motsu)
Swahili: kikofi (sw)

to move something with the palm of the hand

Finnish: siirtää kämmenellä
Swahili: kikofi (sw)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} enpalmer
German: ^{(please verify)} palmieren
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} agarrar con la palma, ^{(please verify)} mover con la palma
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} palmera (sv)

References

^ Jones, M. Jean (1973 August) The Regional English of the Former Inhabitants of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains‎^[1], University of Tennessee, Knoxville, page 114.

Anagrams

APML, MPLA, Lamp, lamp, LAMP

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

palm

Wikipedia ^nl

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɑlm/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: palm
Rhymes: -ɑlm

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch palme, from Old Dutch palma, from Latin palma.

Noun

palm m (plural palmen, diminutive palmpje n)

any palm, (tropical tree of the family Palmae)
an image of such plant

Derived terms

- various

- Species and genera of Palmae

Descendants

→ Caribbean Javanese: palem
→ Indonesian: palem

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch palme, from Old French palme, from Latin palma.

Noun

palm f (plural palmen, diminutive palmpje n)

a palm, the flat (middle part of the hand)
Synonym: handpalm

Derived terms

Anagrams

lamp

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian palma.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /palm/

Noun

palm m (collective, singulative palma, paucal palmiet)

palm-trees

Old English

Etymology

From Latin palma (“palm-tree, palm-branch, palm of the hand”).

Noun

palm m or f

palm tree

Derived terms

palmtrēow

Descendants

Middle English: palme, paume, pame
- English: palm
  - → Malay: palma, ڤلما
- Scots: paum
- Yola: polm

Old High German

Alternative forms

palma f

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-.

Noun

palm m

palm tree
palm leaf

Declension

Declension of palm (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	palm	palma
accusative	palm	palma
genitive	palmes	palmo
dative	palme	palmum
instrumental	palmu	—

Derived terms

Descendants

Middle High German: palme, balme
- Central Franconian:
  - Hunsrik: Palme, Pallem
- German: Palme

References

"palme" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpalm/
Rhymes: -alm
Syllabification: palm

Noun

palm f

genitive plural of palma

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French palme or German Palme.

Noun

palm m (plural palmi)

palm tree

Declension

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	palm	palmul	palmi	palmii
genitive-dative	palm	palmului	palmi	palmilor
vocative	palmule		palmilor

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

palm

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

From Old Swedish palmber, palma, from Old Norse palmi, from Latin palma.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

palm c

palm (tropical tree)

Declension

Declension of palm

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	palm	palms
singular	definite	palmen	palmens
plural	indefinite	palmer	palmers
plural	definite	palmerna	palmernas

Descendants

→ Finnish: palmu

References

[1] Jones, M. Jean (1973 August) The Regional English of the Former Inhabitants of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains‎^[1], University of Tennessee, Knoxville, page 114.

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