poma

See also: Poma

Akan

Noun

poma

1. walking stick

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan poma, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”) (reinterpreted as a feminine singular).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpo.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpo.ma]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

Noun

poma f (plural pomes)

1. apple

   Synonym: maçana

References

• “poma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “poma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “poma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “poma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• pomma (ORB, narrow)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pōma pl.

Noun

poma f (plural pomes) (ORB, broad)

1. apple

References

• pomme in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• poma in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1266: “une mela dolce” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1056: “des pommes” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pōmum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 153

Galician

Etymology

From Latin pōma, nominative plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpomɐ]

Noun

poma f (plural pomas)

1. (archaic) fruit; apple

   Synonym: mazá

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 471:

     diz o conto que, cabo dũ rrío que sae do paraýso terreal, estaua hũa áruor, et aquelas pomas que dela caẽ ẽno rrío ...

     the tale says that, by the river that comes out of the Garden of Eden, there was a tree, and that fruits that fell to the river from it ...

2. husk (of a cob)

   Synonyms: carocha, folello, follato

3. needle (leaf of pine)

   Synonym: agulla

Related terms

• pomar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “poma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “poma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “poma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “poma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “poma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latin

Noun

pōma n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pōmum

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan poma, from Latin pōma, nominative plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpumɒ]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

poma f (plural pomas)

1. apple

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin poma, nominative plural of pomum (“fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoma/ [ˈpo.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: po‧ma

Noun

poma f (plural pomas)

1. pome
2. (poetic, literary) fruit

   Synonyms: fruta, fruto

3. (rare) apple

   Synonym: manzana

Related terms

• pomo

Further reading

• “poma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10