Palam

See also: palam and pałam

English

Palam

Palam Airport

Etymology

Transliteration of Hindustani پَالَم / पालम (pālam).

Proper noun

Palam

1. A neighbourhood of South West Delhi district, Delhi, India.
   1. (aviation) The international airport of Delhi, India, officially Indira Gandhi International Airport.
      • 1953, “News in Brief”, in Roland E. Dangerfield, editor, The Aeroplane, volume 84, page 668:

        Air India suffered the loss of a DC-3 on the Delhi-Bombay night mail run on May 9. The aircraft crashed approximately 20 miles south of Palam Airport, Delhi. The crew of four and all 14 passengers were killed.

2. A town and tehsil in Parbhani district, Maharashtra, India.

Translations

neighborhood in Delhi

• Hindi: पालम m (pālam)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: پَالَم (pālam)

• Urdu: پالَم (pālam)