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 ” ) .
palm tree (plural palm trees )
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.
tropical tree
Acholi: otit
Akan: ( palm ) abε いぷしろん
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 しゅろ / 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 しゅろ / 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: φ ふぁい ο おみくろん ῖν にゅー ι いおた ξ くしー m ( phoînix )
Guaraní: jata'i , karanda , karanda'y , mbokaja , pindo
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hawaiian: pāma
Hebrew: דֶּקֶל (he) m ( dékel )
Hindi: ताड़ (hi) m ( tāṛ )
Hungarian: pálma (hu)
Icelandic: pálmatré n , pálmi m
Ido: palmiero (io)
Indonesian: palam (id) , palem (id)
Ingrian: paljma
Interlingua: palma
Italian: palma (it) f
Japanese: 椰子 やし (ja) ( やし, yashi )
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: пальма ( palma )
Khmer: តាលព្រឹក្ស ( taala’ prɨk )
Korean: 야자수(椰子 やし 樹 じゅ ) (ko) ( yajasu ) , 야자(椰子 やし ) (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: ᠳ᠋ᠠᠯ ᠮᠣᠳᠤ ( dal modu ) , ᠬᠢᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤᠲᠦ ᠮᠣᠳᠤ ( kilɣasutü modu )
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
Old Tupi: pindoba
Oromo: meexxii
Persian: نخل (fa) ( naxl ) , خرمابن ( xormâban ) , مخ (fa) ( mox )
Polish: palma (pl) f
Portuguese: palma (pt) f , palmeira (pt) f
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
Roman: palma (sh) f
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
Tupinambá: pindoba
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: palmwydden f
Yoruba: ọ̀pẹ
Zulu: please add this translation if you can