doum palm

English

doum palm

Alternative forms

dom palm, doom palm

Etymology

Arabic دوم‎ (dawm) + palm

Noun

doum palm (plural doum palms)

Hyphaene thebaica, a palm tree with edible oval fruit.
- 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage 1998, p. 18:
  The country to the east of Derudeb was bleached and sere, and there were long grey cliffs and dom palms growing in the wadis.

Synonyms

doum, gingerbread tree

Translations

Hyphaene thebaica

Arabic: مُقْل‎ m (muql), دَوْم‎ m (dawm)
Catalan: palmera tebaica f
Esperanto: dumpalmo
French: doum (fr) m, palmier doum d’Égypte (fr) m
Greek: φοίνικας ντουμ (foínikas doum)
Ancient: κόϊξ m (kóïx)
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hausa: aru
Hebrew: דום מצרי‎ m (dom mitsrí)
Italian: palma dum f
Spanish: palmera dum m
Swahili: mkoma
Tigre: please add this translation if you can
Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can

References

Hyphaene thebaica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Hyphaene thebaica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Hyphaene thebaica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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