alma
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
Definition of alma
34 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- An Egyptian female singer or dancing girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
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noun
- An Egyptian female singer or dancing girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
- (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Asian land mammal age.
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A female given name from Latin, popular in the 19th century.
“Alma she called was, a virgin bright:/ That had not yet felt Cupides wanton rage,/ Yet was she woo'd of many a gentle knight […]”
- (Mormonism)One of two prophets, the Elder and the Younger, and a book in the Book of Mormon.
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- A locality in the Shire of Central Goldfields, central Victoria, Australia
- Former name of Boudouaou, Algeria.
- (alt-of, nonstandard)Nonstandard form of ALMA, acronym of Atacama Large Millimeter Array.
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Atacama Large Millimeter Array (a telescope in Chile).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From colloquial Arabic عَالِمَة (ʕālima, “a singer”), originally a feminine adjective meaning learned, knowledgeable, from عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”).
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