Palma

See also: palma, palmá, palmã, palmă, Palmą, pálma, and Pálma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Palma. Doublet of palm.

Pronunciation

• enPR: päl′mä
• (Received Pronunciation, India) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːl.mɑː/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑl.mɑ/; (also Canada) /ˈpɒl.mɒ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐːl.mɐː/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/
• Hyphenation: Pal‧ma

Proper noun

Palma

2. A city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Mallorca.
3. A town in Palma district, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.

Synonyms

Palma, Mallorca, Spain

• Palma de Mallorca

Related terms

• La Palma
• Las Palmas
• Palmas

Translations

Palma, Mallorca, Spain

• Catalan: Palma (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帕爾馬 / 帕尔马 (zh) (Pà'ěrmǎ)

• Latin: Palma f
• Polish: Palma de Mallorca (pl) f, Palma (pl) f
• Portuguese: Palma (pt) f, Palma de Maiorca (pt) f
• Russian: Па́льма (ru) f (Pálʹma)
• Spanish: Palma (es) f, Palma de Mallorca (es) f

Further reading

• “Palma”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Palma de Mallorca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Palma, Mozambique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Palma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpal.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpal.ma]
• Rhymes: (Central, Balearic) -almə, (Valencia) -alma
• Hyphenation: Pal‧ma

Proper noun

Palma f

1. Palma, Palma de Mallorca (a city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Mallorca)

Faroese

Proper noun

Palma f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• Palma's son: Palmuson
• Palma's daughter: Palmudóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Palma
accusative	Palmu
dative	Palmu
genitive	Palmu

Latin

Etymology

From palma.

Proper noun

Palma f sg (genitive Palmae); first declension

1. Palma, Palma de Mallorca (a city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Mallorca)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Palma
genitive	Palmae
dative	Palmae
accusative	Palmam
ablative	Palmā
vocative	Palma
locative	Palmae

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ma/

• Rhymes: -alma
• Syllabification: Pal‧ma
• Homophone: palma

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *pel-?

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂

Proto-Italic *palamā

Latin palmalbor.

Old Polish palma

Polish palma

Polish Palma

From palma.

Proper noun

Palma m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Palma

	singular	plural
nominative	Palma	Palmowie/Palmy (deprecative)
genitive	Palmy	Palmów
dative	Palmie	Palmom
accusative	Palmę	Palmów
instrumental	Palmą	Palmami
locative	Palmie	Palmach
vocative	Palmo	Palmowie

Related terms

proper nouns

• De Palma

Proper noun

Palma f (traditional married form Palmina, traditional unmarried form Palmianka)

1. a female surname

Declension

Declension of Palma

	singular	plural
nominative	Palma	Palmy
genitive	Palmy	Palm
dative	Palmie	Palmom
accusative	Palmę	Palmy
instrumental	Palmą	Palmami
locative	Palmie	Palmach
vocative	Palmo	Palmy

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Spanish Palmabor.

Polish Palma

Borrowed from Spanish Palma.

Proper noun

Palma f

2. Palma, Palma de Mallorca (a city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Mallorca)

Declension

Declension of Palma

	singular
nominative	Palma
genitive	Palmy
dative	Palmie
accusative	Palmę
instrumental	Palmą
locative	Palmie
vocative	Palmo

Further reading

• “Palma”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

• Paweł Kupiszewski (28 January 2016), “PALMA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• “Palma”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030
• Woliński, Marcin; Saloni, Zygmunt; Wołosz, Robert; Gruszczyński, Włodzimierz; Skowrońska, Danuta; Bronk, Zbigniew (2020), “Palma m1”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish]‎^[2], 4. online edition, Warszawa
• Woliński, Marcin; Saloni, Zygmunt; Wołosz, Robert; Gruszczyński, Włodzimierz; Skowrońska, Danuta; Bronk, Zbigniew (2020), “Palma f”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish]‎^[3], 4. online edition, Warszawa

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.mɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.mɐ/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw.ma/ [ˈpaʊ̯.ma]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mɐ/ [ˈpaɫ.mɐ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -awmɐ, (Portugal) -almɐ
• Hyphenation: Pal‧ma

Proper noun

Palma f

1. Palma, Palma de Mallorca (a city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Maiorca)
2. a municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalma/ [ˈpal.ma]
• Rhymes: -alma
• Syllabification: Pal‧ma

Proper noun

Palma f

1. Palma, Palma de Mallorca (a city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Mallorca)

Proper noun

Palma m or f by sense

1. a surname