Alma
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Usually explained as Latin alma (“nourishing, kind”). It has also been used as a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Amal-, as in Amelia.
Proper noun
[edit]Alma
- A female given name from Latin, popular in the 19th century.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:
- 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.
- Places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama.
- A city in Crawford County, Arkansas.
- A ghost town in Santa Clara County, California.
- A statutory town in Park County, Colorado.
- A city, the county seat of Bacon County, Georgia.
- A village in Marion County, Illinois.
- A ghost town in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
- A small city, the county seat of Wabaunsee County, Kansas.
- A city in Gratiot County, Michigan.
- A small city in Lafayette County, Missouri.
- A small city, the county seat of Harlan County, Nebraska.
- An unincorporated community in Catron County, New Mexico.
- A town in Allegany County, New York.
- An unincorporated community in Ross County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Stephens County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
- A town in Ellis County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Page County, Virginia.
- A small city, the county seat of Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
- Places in Canada:
- A village in Albert County, New Brunswick.
- An unincorporated rural community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
- An unincorporated rural community of Wellington County, Ontario.
- A settlement in Prince Edward Island.
- A town in Quebec.
- Former name of Boudouaou, Algeria.
Translations
[edit]female given name
Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma
- (space science) Non-standard capitalisation of ALMA (Acronym of Atacama Large Millimeter Array.)
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma n
- A neighbourhood of Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands
Estonian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
Faroese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
Usage notes
[edit]Matronymics
- son of Alma: Almuson
- daughter of Alma: Almudóttir
Declension
[edit]Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Alma |
Accusative | Almu |
Dative | Almu |
Genitive | Almu |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin alma, but see also English Alma.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
- 1984, Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, page 44:
- —On tämä vähän hassua kun ei niistä tiedä mitään.
—Nimet sentään. Jos jonkun nimi on Alma niin sen täytyy olla lihava.- —It is a bit funny when you don't know anything of them.
—Well, the name. If someone's Alma she's got to be fat.
- —It is a bit funny when you don't know anything of them.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Alma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Alma | Almat | |
genitive | Alman | Almojen | |
partitive | Almaa | Almoja | |
illative | Almaan | Almoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Alma | Almat | |
accusative | nom. | Alma | Almat |
gen. | Alman | ||
genitive | Alman | Almojen Almain rare | |
partitive | Almaa | Almoja | |
inessive | Almassa | Almoissa | |
elative | Almasta | Almoista | |
illative | Almaan | Almoihin | |
adessive | Almalla | Almoilla | |
ablative | Almalta | Almoilta | |
allative | Almalle | Almoille | |
essive | Almana | Almoina | |
translative | Almaksi | Almoiksi | |
abessive | Almatta | Almoitta | |
instructive | — | Almoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Statistics
[edit]- Alma is the 205th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,951 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,600 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Alma f (proper noun, genitive Alma)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First recorded as a given name of Latvians during 1825 - 1850 . From Latin alma, and a contraction of Amālija.
Proper noun
[edit]Alma f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
References
[edit]- Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
- [1] Population Register of Latvia: Alma was the only given name of 904 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Lithuanian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma f
- a female given name
Norwegian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hungarian Almás, from almás (“apple tree grove”), from alma (“apple”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Alma f
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
Declension
[edit] Declension of Alma
Further reading
[edit]- “Alma”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alma f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Alma c (genitive Almas)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
Anagrams
[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔalma/ [ˈʔal.mɐ]
- Rhymes: -alma
- Syllabification: Al‧ma
Proper noun
[edit]Alma (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜋ)
- a female given name from English
Anagrams
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