Almah
//ˈæl.mə// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
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."
Example
More examples"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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