alma
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[edit] English
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From colloquial Arabic عالمة (‘ālima), originally a feminine adjective meaning “learned, knowledgeable”, from علم (‘alima, “to know”).
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- An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
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[edit] Azeri
| Other scripts | |
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| Cyrillic | алма |
| Roman | alma |
| Perso-Arabic | آلما |
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alma definite accusative almanı plural almalar
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declension of alma
possessive forms of alma
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alma f. (plural almas)
- soul (of a living person)
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From a Turkic language, compare Azeri alma, Turkish elma.
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alma (plural almák)
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declension of alma
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alma f. (plural alme)
- (literary) soul
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[edit] Ladino
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From Latin anima.
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alma f. (Latin spelling; plural almas)
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alma f.
- Feminine singular of almus
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Latin anima
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alma f. (plural almas)
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Latin anima
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- IPA: [ˈalma]
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alma f. (plural almas)
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The feminine noun alma is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:
However, if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.
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