date palm

See also: datepalm

English

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Noun

date palm (plural date palms)

2. A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.
   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 87:

     The date palms of the little fertile spot they had just left, and the circle of goatskin tents, stood out in sharp relief against the yellow sand—a phantom paradise upon a phantom sea.

Synonyms

• (Phoenix dactylifera): date, date tree

Derived terms

• African wild date palm, Phoenix reclinata
• Canary Island date palm, Phoenix canariensis
• Cape Verde Island date palm, Phoenix atlantica
• Ceylon date palm, Phoenix pusilla
• cliff date palm, Phoenix rupicola
• Cretan date palm, Phoenix theophrasti
• dwarf date palm Phoenix acaulis, Phoenix roebelenii
• mountain date palm, Phoenix loureiroi
• Senegal date palm, Phoenix reclinata
• silver date palm, Phoenix sylvestris
• sugar date palm, Phoenix sylvestris

Translations

Phoenix dactylifera

• Amharic: ተምር (tämər)
• Arabic: نَخْلَة f (naḵla)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܬܡܪܬܐ f (tmarṯā) (one), ܬܡܪܬܐ m (tamrē) (multiple)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: תֵּמַרְתָּא f (tmartā) (one), תּוּמַרְתָּא f (tumartā) (one), תַּמְרֵי m (tamrē) (multiple)

  Jewish Literary Aramaic: תַּמְרָא m (tamrā), תּוּמְרָא m (tumrā)

  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: תמרתה f (one), תומרתה f (one), תמרה m (multiple), תומרה m (multiple)

• Argobba: ትምር (təmər)
• Armenian: փյունիկյան արմավենի (hy) (pʻyunikyan armaveni)
• Bulgarian: фи́никова па́лма f (fínikova pálma)
• Burmese: စွန်ပလွံ (my) (cwanpa.lwam)
• Catalan: palmera datilera f
• Cerma: nampuruuŋgu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棗椰樹 / 枣椰树 (zǎoyēshù), 棗樹 / 枣树 (zh) (zǎoshù), 棗椰子 / 枣椰子 (zh) (zǎoyēzi), 海棗 / 海枣 (zh) (hǎizǎo)

• Crimean Tatar: hurma nehli
• Czech: datlovník (cs) m
• Danish: daddelpalme c
• Dutch: dadelpalm (nl) m, dadelboom m
• Dyula: tamaro
• Esperanto: daktilopalmo
• Estonian: harilik datlipalm (et), datlipalm (et)
• Finnish: välimerentaateli (fi), taatelipalmu (fi)
• French: dattier (fr) m
• Ge'ez: ተምር (tämr) (collective), ተመርት (tämärt) (singulative)
• Georgian: ფინიკის პალმა (piniḳis ṗalma)
• German: Dattelpalme (de) f
• Gourmanchéma: dabimi, dabintibu, dabinfaagu
• Greek: χουρμαδιά (el) f (chourmadiá)
• Hebrew: תמר (he) m (tāmār)
• Hindi: खजूर (hi) (khajūr)
• Hungarian: datolyapálma (hu)
• Icelandic: döðlupálmi
• Ido: dateliero (io)
• Irish: pailm dhátaí f
• Italian: palma da dattero f, palma da datteri f
• Japanese: 棗椰子 (ja) (なつめやし, natsumeyashi), ナツメヤシ (ja) (natsumeyashi)
• Kasem: zangwɛ-nangurə tiu
• Kashmiri: کھٔزٕر کُل (khạzụr kul)
• Korean: 대추야자 (daechuyaja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دار خورما (dar xurma)

• Macedonian: датула f (datula)
• Malayalam: ഈന്തപ്പന (ml) (īntappana)
• Moore: mak-kɛglga
• Navajo: atʼaʼ yiltʼąąʼí
• Ngazidja Comorian: mtreɗe class 3/4
• Norwegian: daddelpalme
• Persian: خرما (fa) (xormâ)
• Polish: palma daktylowa (pl) f, daktylowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: tamareira (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਖਜੂਰ f (khajūr)

  Shahmukhi: کَھجُور f (khajūr)

• Romanian: curmal (ro) m
• Russian: фи́никовая па́льма (ru) f (fínikovaja pálʹma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: датула f, датуља f

  Roman: datula f, datulja (sh) f

• Slovene: datelj (sl) f
• Spanish: datilera f, palma datilera f
• Swahili: mtende
• Swedish: dadelpalm (sv) c
• Tal: dabino
• Tamil: பேரீச்சை (ta) (pērīccai), ஈந்து (ta) (īntu)
• Tarifit: tiyni f
• Telugu: ఖర్జూరం (te) (kharjūraṁ)
• Thai: อินทผลัม (th) (in-tá-pà-lam)
• Tigre: ተመር (tämär) (collective), ተመረት f (tämärät) (singulative)
• Tigrinya: ተምሪ (tämri) (collective and singulative)
• Turkish: hurma (tr)
• Uzbek: xoma (uz)
• Vame: dəbina
• Vietnamese: chà là (vi)
• Volapük: daetep (vo), daetabim (vo)
• Walloon: pålmî ås dates
• Welsh: palmwydden ddatys
• Yiddish: טייטלבוים m (teytlboym)

Anagrams

• dam plate, palmated