parm

See also: pärm

English

Etymology

Shortening of parmigiana or parmesan.

Noun

parm (countable and uncountable, plural parms)

1. A dish served in the parmigiana style (combined with cheese and coated with tomato sauce before baking).
   • 2012, Mike Isabella, Mike Isabella's Crazy Good Italian:

     Everyone who's had my mother's eggplant parm has said, “This is awesome.”

   • 2013, Kathy Strahs, The Ultimate Panini Press Cookbook:

     For this update on a chicken parm sandwich, I bread and sauté thin chicken breast cutlets and layer them with fresh basil, mozzarella cheese, and leftover spaghetti on garlic-buttered ciabatta.

   • 2023, Sohla El-Waylly, Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook, page 170:

     This braised eggplant has all those savory parm-y flavors, but in an easy any-night form.

   chicken parm

2. Parmesan cheese.
   • 2020, Chelsey Hansen, Makin Cherry and Apple Pies Under the Land of the Living Skies:

     Go make some spaghetti for lunch n sprinkle on some parm

   • 2023, Luca Cesari, The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes:

     Once it's bubbling good and steady, grab some parm and pecorino, pop it all on your spaghetti.

   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 203:

     'There's parm in that bowl there,' Lady Darvish said.

Related terms

• parma

Anagrams

• MRAP, PRAM, pram, ramp

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *parma, originally onomatopoetic. Cognate to Finnish paarma, Ingrian paarma. Possibly already from Proto-Finno-Ugric *parma: compare Eastern Mari пормо (pormo) and Erzya промо (promo), пуромо (puromo).

Noun

parm (genitive parmu, partitive parmu)

1. horsefly, breezefly, gadfly, forest fly (fly of the family Tabanidae)
2. (colloquial) drunkard, bum

Declension

Declension of parm (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		parm	parmud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	parmu
genitive			parmude
partitive		parmu	parme parmusid
illative		parmu parmusse	parmudesse parmesse
inessive		parmus	parmudes parmes
elative		parmust	parmudest parmest
allative		parmule	parmudele parmele
adessive		parmul	parmudel parmel
ablative		parmult	parmudelt parmelt
translative		parmuks	parmudeks parmeks
terminative		parmuni	parmudeni
essive		parmuna	parmudena
abessive		parmuta	parmudeta
comitative		parmuga	parmudega

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *parma, from Proto-Finno-Permic *parma. Cognates include Finnish paarma.

Noun

parm

1. gadfly

Declension

Inflection of parm (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	parm
genitive sing.	parman
partitive sing.	parmad
partitive plur.	parmoid
	singular	plural
nominative	parm	parmad
accusative	parman	parmad
genitive	parman	parmoiden
partitive	parmad	parmoid
essive-instructive	parman	parmoin
translative	parmaks	parmoikš
inessive	parmas	parmoiš
elative	parmaspäi	parmoišpäi
illative	parmaha	parmoihe
adessive	parmal	parmoil
ablative	parmalpäi	parmoilpäi
allative	parmale	parmoile
abessive	parmata	parmoita
comitative	parmanke	parmoidenke
prolative	parmadme	parmoidme
approximative I	parmanno	parmoidenno
approximative II	parmannoks	parmoidennoks
egressive	parmannopäi	parmoidennopäi
terminative I	parmahasai	parmoihesai
terminative II	parmalesai	parmoilesai
terminative III	parmassai	—
additive I	parmahapäi	parmoihepäi
additive II	parmalepäi	parmoilepäi