palmier

English

palmiers

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French palmier, ellipsis of feuille de palmier (“palm tree leaf”), the original name of this pastry.

Noun

palmier (plural palmiers)

1. A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar.

   Synonym: elephant ear

   • 2007 January 30, Lily Koppel, “In a Bakery Window, Shades of Miss Havisham”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Glass cases are filled with a pastel field of pink sweet buns, glossy guava-oozing pastries and their vanilla custard cousins, crispy, heart-shaped orejas (elephant ears, or, at French bakeries, palmiers), and conchas (shells).

Translations

puff pastry

• Arabic: بالميي
• Basque: palmera f
• Catalan: ulleres (ca) m pl, palmera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蝴蝶酥 (wu⁴ dip⁶ sou¹), 蝴蝶餅 / 蝴蝶饼 (wu⁴ dip⁶ beng²)

  Mandarin: 蝴蝶酥 (zh) (húdiésū), 蝴蝶餅 / 蝴蝶饼 (húdiébǐng)

• French: palmier (fr) m
• Galician: palmeira (gl) f
• German: Schweinsohr (de) n
• Hebrew: אוזני פיל
• Luxembourgish: Mohnschneck
• Persian: پالمیه
• Spanish: palmera (es) f

Etymology 2

Adjective

palmier

1. comparative form of palmy: more palmy

Anagrams

• Palmeri, impaler, impearl, lempira, premail, premial

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French palmier. By surface analysis, palme +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.mje/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -je
• Homophone: palmiers
• Hyphenation: pal‧mier

Noun

palmier m (plural palmiers)

1. palm, palm tree

   Hypernyms: arbre, monocotylédone

   Hyponyms: aréquier, dattier, palmier à huile, palmier des Canaries

2. (baking) palmier (biscuit)

Derived terms

• palmeraie (“palm grove”)
• palmier à chanvre
• palmier à huile (“oil palm”)
• palmier à sucre
• palmier dattier
• palmier de Bismarck
• palmier de Chine
• palmier de Madagascar
• palmier des Canaries
• palmier des Everglades (“Everglades palm”)
• palmier marin
• palmier nain
• palmier rônier

 

Related terms

• palme
• palmiste

 

Descendants

• → English: palmier
• → Romanian: palmier

Further reading

• “palmier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “palmier” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “palmier” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Paronyms

• Pamiers

Anagrams

• emplira

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French palmier (“palm tree”).

Noun

palmier m (plural palmieri)

1. palm tree

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	palmier	palmierul		palmieri	palmierii
genitive-dative	palmier	palmierului		palmieri	palmierilor
vocative	palmierule			palmierilor

References

• palmier in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)