Almah

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ˈælmÉ™/

Alternative forms

• alma
• almeh

Origin

Ultimately from Arabic عالمة (‘ālima, "singer"), originally a feminine adjective meaning ‘learned, knowledgeable’, from علم (‘alima, "to know").

Full definition of almah

Noun

1. An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; a dancing-girl, a prostitute. from 18th c.
• 1998, Catherine Gillivray, translating Hélène Cixous, Firstdays of the Year, Minnesota 1998, p. 157:Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl. She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.

Anagrams

• halma, Hamal, hamal, Mahal, mahal