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palm wine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any alcoholic drink produced from the sap of palm trees; toddy.
   • In Amboyna a man can keep himself and his family on next to no work at all; may dress decently, in the universal sarong and coat that both sexes wear; may eat of the best, drink sweet, intoxicating sagoweer or palm wine to his fullest desire (since he is Christian, not Mohammedan), may loaf, dance, and gossip half the day, eat a quarter of the day, and work perhaps an eighth. 1914 March 7, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 5, column 5:
   • One of the few luxuries of Matabello is the palm wine; which is the fermented sap from the flower stains of the cocoa-net. It is really a very mice drink, more like cyder than beer, though quite as intoxicating as the latter. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 102:
   • Their food is rice, fish, and pisang, and their drink water; though they likewise have sagwire, or palm wine. 1815, Walter Hamilton, The East India Gazetteer, London: John Murray, page 260, column 2:
2. (uncountable) A genre of popular music most closely associated with mid-20th-century Sierra Leone.

Forms

Synonyms

palm wine guitar · sagueir · sagwire · sagoweer

Translations (58)

eo palmvino (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · eo palmovino (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ms tuak (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · tft lahan (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · enn uḍi (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · be тодзі (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · te కల్లు (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ijc wuru (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · cs palmové víno (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ije iru (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ig manya (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · sv palmvin (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · fr vin de palme (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · epi uḍi (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · id tuak (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · yue 棕櫚酒 /棕榈酒 (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ar لاقبي (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · km ស្រាទឹកត្នោត (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ha bammi (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ban tuak (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ijs wúru (Akaha) (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · nup muge (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · si රා (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · deg uḍí (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · lv palmu vīns (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ig m̀manya (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · yo ògùrọ̀ (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · yo ẹmu (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · mrw gohang (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · de Palmwein (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · hi ताड़ी (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ja 椰子酒 (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ak nsafufu (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · okr iruú (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · km ទឹកត្នោតជូរ (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · okd oru (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · my ထန်းရည် (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · kk тодди (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · fi palmuviini (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ta கள்ளு (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ijc wúrú (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ml കള്ള് (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · tl tuba (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · yo isà (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · kn ಹೆಂಡ (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ta கள் (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · nl palmwijn (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · afn ilo (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · min tuak (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · mqs nawi (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ru па́льмовое вино́ (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ega alolú (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · iby iru (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ga leann pailme (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · epi iḍi (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · dv ރުކުރާ (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · nbh bâmmi (alcoholic beverage made from palm) · ko 야자술 (alcoholic beverage made from palm)