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Almah

//ˈæl.mə// noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

Etymology

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

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