palm

• (England, Wales) enPR: päm, IPA^(key): /pɑːm/
• (US) enPR: päm, pälm, IPA^(key): /pɑm/, /pɑlm/, /pɔm/, /pɔlm/, (archaic) /pæm/[1]

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): [pɑːm], [pɒːm]
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈpæm/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈpam/
• Rhymes: -ɑːm, -ɑːlm, -ɔːm, -ɔːlm, -æm

A palm tree (Cocos nucifera)

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”).

palm (plural palms)

1. Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.

   Synonym: palm tree

2. 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.

3. (figurative, by extension) Triumph; victory.
4. (scouting) Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.

• (Scouting award): Palm

A human hand with the palm labelled

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”).

palm (plural palms)

1. 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.

2. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
3. (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

4. (historical) Any of various units of length notionally derived from the length of the palm from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
5. (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.
6. 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.

7. (nautical) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

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

1. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
2. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.

   John palmed the ball.

3. To move something with the palm of the hand.
   • 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC‎:

     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.

4. (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.

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• Palm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Arecaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Arecaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Arecaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Human hands on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Palm personal digital assistants on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• APML, MPLA, Lamp, lamp, LAMP

• IPA^(key): /pɑlm/

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• Hyphenation: palm
• Rhymes: -ɑlm

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

palm m (plural palmen, diminutive palmpje n)

1. Any palm, (tropical tree of the family Palmae).
2. An image of such plant

- various

- Species and genera of Palmae

• → Caribbean Javanese: palem
• → Indonesian: palem

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

palm f (plural palmen, diminutive palmpje n)

1. A palm, the flat (middle part of the hand)

   Synonym: handpalm

• handpalm
• palmslag
• palmspier
• palmwortel

• lamp

Borrowed from Italian palma.

• IPA^(key): /palm/

palm m (collective, singulative palma, paucal palmiet)

1. palm-trees

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

palm f

1. genitive plural of palma

Borrowed from French palme or German Palme.

palm m (plural palmi)

1. palm tree

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

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palm c

1. A palm, tropical tree.