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Yes. The word parma is a Scrabble US word. The word parma is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (2 found)

PARMA,PRAAM,

4-letter words (6 found)

ARPA,MAAR,MARA,PARA,PRAM,RAMP,

3-letter words (10 found)

AMA,AMP,ARM,MAA,MAP,MAR,PAM,PAR,RAM,RAP,

2-letter words (5 found)

AA,AM,AR,MA,PA,

You can make 23 words from parma according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of parma

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Definitions and meaning of parma

parma

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹmə/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːmə/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə

Etymology 1

From parmigiana.

Noun

parma (plural parmas)

  1. (Australia) A dish cooked in the parmigiana style.
    The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.

Etymology 2

From Latin parma.

Noun

parma (plural parmae)

  1. (historical) A small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry.

See also

  • parma wallaby (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

  • AMRAP, param, praam

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈparma]

Noun

parma f

  1. barbel (freshwater fish of the genus Barbus)

Declension

Further reading

  • parma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • parma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • parma in Internetová jazyková příručka

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑrmɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝rmɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrmɑ
  • Syllabification(key): par‧ma

Noun

parma (dialectal)

  1. Alternative form of paarma

Declension

Latin

Alternative forms

  • palma

Etymology

Perhaps a back-formation from parmula, dissimilated from palmula, from palma (“hand”), referring to the shield being handheld.

Or, borrowed from a Celtic word.

Pronunciation

  • parma: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.ma/, [ˈpärmä]
  • parma: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.ma/, [ˈpärmä]
  • parmā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.maː/, [ˈpärmäː]
  • parmā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpar.ma/, [ˈpärmä]

Noun

parma f (genitive parmae); first declension

  1. a parma; a round shield carried by the infantry and cavalry
  2. (poetic) any shield
  3. (poetic) a Thraex; a gladiator armed with a parma

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • parmātus
  • parmula

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: πάρμη (pármē)

References

  • “parma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “parma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • parma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • parma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “parma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “parma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “parma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • “parma”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Sicilian

Alternative forms

  • pamma

Noun

parma f

  1. palm (of the hand)

Source: wiktionary.org