From the palm fronds supposedly laid before Jesus during his entrance to Jerusalem preceding his crucifixion. Originally Old English Palmsunnandæg or palm-sunnandæg. The current spelling dates to the 17th century.
Palm Sunday (plural Palm Sundays)
- The sixth Sunday in Lent, the Sunday before Easter.
Sunday before Easter
- Armenian: Ծաղկազարդ (Caġkazard)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܹܐܕܵܐ ܕܐܘܿܫܲܥܢܹ̈ܐ m (ʿēdā d-ošaʿnē)
- Basque: Erramu Igandea
- Bulgarian: цветница (bg) f (cvetnica)
- Catalan: Diumenge de Rams
- Danish: palmesøndag c
- Dutch: Palmzondag (nl) m
- Esperanto: palmodimanĉo, palmofesto (eo) m
- Ewe: Debaya Kɔsiɖa
- Faroese: pálmasunnudagur m
- Finnish: palmusunnuntai (fi)
- French: dimanche des Rameaux (fr) m
- Galician: Domingo de Ramos
- Georgian: ბზობა (ka) (bzoba)
- German: Palmsonntag (de) m, Sonntag Palmarum m, Palmarum-Sonntag m, Palmarum (de) m, Palmtag m
- Greek: Κυριακή των Βαΐων (el) f (Kyriakí ton Vaḯon)
- Hungarian: virágvasárnap (hu)
- Icelandic: pálmasunnudagur (is) m
- Ido: palmo-sundio
- Indonesian: Minggu Palma
- Ingrian: Urpipäivä, Verba
- Irish: Domhnach na Pailme m
- Italian: Domenica delle Palme (it) f
- Latvian: Pūpolu diena
- Low German:
- German Low German: Palmsünndag m
- Macedonian: Цве́тници f pl (Cvétnici)
- Maltese: Ħadd il-Palm
- Norman: Desmanche des Rameaux m (Guernsey), Dînmanche des Rameaux m (Jersey), Pâque flieuthie f (Jersey), Pâques flleuries f pl (continental Normandy)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: palmesøndag (no) m
- Nynorsk: palmesundag m, palmesøndag m
- Old English: Palmsunnandæġ m
- Old Norse: palmasunnudagr m, palmadróttinsdagr m
- Polish: Niedziela Palmowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: Domingo de Ramos (pt) m
- Romanian: Duminica Floriilor f
- Russian: ве́рбное воскресе́нье n (vérbnoje voskresénʹje)
- Scottish Gaelic: Didòmhnaich Tùrnais m, Didòmhnaich Shlat-phailme m
- Spanish: domingo de ramos
- Swedish: palmsöndag (sv) c
- Tagalog: Linggo ng Palaspas, Linggo-de-Ramos
- Udi: заьраьзаьртаьр (zäräzärtär)
- Urdu: کھجور کا اتوار
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