palm tree

See also: palm-tree, palmtree, and Palm Tree

English

A coconut palm

Alternative forms

• palm-tree, palmtree

Etymology

From Middle English palmetre, from Old English palmtrēow (“palm tree”), equivalent to palm +‎ tree. Compare Danish palmetræ (“palm tree”), Swedish palmträd (“palm tree”), Norwegian palmetre (“palm tree”), Icelandic pálmatré (“palm tree”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

palm tree (plural palm trees)

2. A tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand.

   Synonym: palm

   Hypernym: tree

   Hyponym: coconut palm

Derived terms

• palm tree justice
• palm tree kale

Translations

tropical tree

• Acholi: otit
• Akan: (palm) abε
• Albanian: palmë (sq) f
• Amharic: ዘምባባ (zämbaba)
• Arabic: نَخْلَة f (naḵla)

  Gulf Arabic: نخلة f (nḵaḷa)

• Aramaic: דִּקְלָא
• Armenian: արմավենի (hy) (armaveni)
• Asturian: palmera (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: palma (az), nəxlə
• Belarusian: па́льма f (pálʹma)
• Bulgarian: па́лма f (pálma)
• Burmese: ထန်း (my) (htan:)
• Catalan: palmera (ca) f, palmer m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 棕櫚 / 棕榈 (zung¹ leoi⁴)

  Eastern Min: 棕樹 / 棕树 (cĕ̤ng-chéu)

  Hakka: 棕樹 / 棕树 (chûng-su)

  Hokkien: 棕樹 / 棕树 (chang-chhiū)

  Mandarin: 棕櫚 / 棕榈 (zh) (zōnglǘ)

• Crimean Tatar: nehl
• Czech: palma (cs) f
• Danish: palmetræ n, palme (da) c
• Dutch: palm (nl) m, palmboom (nl) m
• Esperanto: palmo (eo)
• Estonian: palm (et)
• Faroese: pálmi m
• Finnish: palmu (fi), palmupuu (fi)
• French: palmier (fr) m
• Galician: palmeira (gl) f, palma (gl) f
• Georgian: პალმა (ṗalma)
• German: Palme (de) f, Palmbaum (de) m, Palmenbaum (de) m
• Greek: φοίνικας (el) m (foínikas)

  Ancient Greek: φοῖνιξ m (phoînix)

• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} jata'i, ^{(please verify)} karanda, ^{(please verify)} karanda'y, ^{(please verify)} mbokaja, ^{(please verify)} pindo

• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: pāma
• Hebrew: דֶּקֶל (he) m (dékel)
• Hindi: ताड़ (hi) m (tāṛ)
• Hungarian: pálma (hu), pálmafa (hu)
• Icelandic: pálmatré n, pálmi m
• Ido: palmiero (io)
• Indonesian: palam (id), palem (id)
• Ingrian: paljma
• Interlingua: palma
• Irish: pailm f
• Italian: palma (it) f
• Japanese: 椰子 (ja) (やし, yashi)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: пальма (palʹma)
• Khmer: តាលព្រឹក្ស (taala’ prɨk)
• Korean: 야자수(椰子樹) (ko) (yajasu), 야자(椰子) (ko) (yaja)
• Kyrgyz: пальма (palma)
• Lao: ປາມ (pām)
• Latin: palma (la) f
• Latvian: palma f
• Lithuanian: palmė f
• Maasai: ltungai, ltunga pl
• Macedonian: палма f (palma)
• Malay: palma (ms), nipah
• Malayalam: പം മരം (paṁ maraṁ)
• Maltese: palm
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дал мод (dal mod), хялгаст мод (xjalgast mod)

  Mongolian script: ᠳ᠋ᠠᠯ
  ᠮᠣᠳᠤ (dal modu), ᠬᠢᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤᠲᠦ
  ᠮᠣᠳᠤ (qilgasutü modu)

• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: zōtolin

• Navajo: atʼaʼ yiltʼąąʼí
• Newar: ताय्‌गःसिमा (tæga:simā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: palme (no) m, palmetre n

  Nynorsk: palme m, palmetre n

• Occitan: palmièr (oc) m
• Odia: ତାଳଗଛ (tāḷagacha)
• Old English: palmtrēow n
• Oromo: meexxii
• Persian: نخل (fa) (naxl), خرمابن (xormâban), مخ (fa) (mox)
• Polish: palma (pl) f
• Portuguese: palma (pt) f, palmeira (pt) f
• Réunion Creole French: palmié
• Romanian: palmier (ro) m
• Russian: па́льма (ru) f (pálʹma)
• Sanskrit: ताल (sa) m or n (tāla), ताड (sa) m (tāḍa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: палма f

  Latin: palma (sh) f

• Sikkimese: ཏ་ལ (ta la)
• Slovak: palma f
• Slovene: palma (sl) f
• Spanish: palmera (es) f, palma (es) f
• Swahili: mchikichi (sw)
• Swedish: palm (sv) c
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Tajik: нахл (naxl)
• Tamil: பனை (ta) (paṉai)
• Tausug: nipa
• Telugu: తాటిచెట్టు (te) (tāṭiceṭṭu)
• Thai: ปาล์ม (th) (bpaam)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: palmiye (tr)
• Turkmen: palma
• Ukrainian: па́льма (uk) f (pálʹma)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: پالما (palma)
• Uzbek: palma (uz)
• Vietnamese: cọ (vi), kè (vi)
• Volapük: pam (vo)
• Welsh: palmwydd f pl
• Yoruba: ọ̀pẹ
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• palm tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lampeter