almah

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈæl.mə/(US)

Definition of almah

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An Egyptian female singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; sometimes a prostitute.
    “Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl. She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.”

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Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic عَالِمَة (ʕālima, “singer”), originally a feminine adjective meaning ‘learned, knowledgeable’, from عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”).

Anagrams of almah

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