Almas

See also: almas, almás, and almaş

Translingual

Etymology

From Mongolian алмас (almas, “a kind of wild man, the almas”).

Proper noun

†Almas f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family †Troodontidae – a theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda - clades; Deinonychosauria, Troodontidae - family

References

• †Almas ukhaa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Almas at Paleobiology Database

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Arabic أَلْمَاس (ʔalmās, “diamond”), a surname predominantly found in Pakistan.
• Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Almas, plural form of Alma.
• Borrowed from Hungarian Almás, from alma (“apple”), thus a metonymic occupational surname for a grower or seller of apples.

Proper noun

Almas (plural Almases)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Almas is the 37848^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 587 individuals. Almas is most common among White (69.34%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (16.01%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Almas”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 27.

Swedish

Proper noun

Almas

1. genitive of Alma