Meaning

1 senses

  1. An Egyptian female singer or dancing girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.

Examples

7 sentences

  1. I looked back at my alma mater.

    Я озирнувся на свою альма матер.

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  2. Tom works in the registrar's office of his alma mater.

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  3. A class reunion was organized to raise funds for our alma mater.

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  4. Janis and Alma say that they had to speak Upper Sorbian.

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  5. "Alma-Ata" means "apple's father" in many Turkic languages.

    ru«Алма-Ата» со многих тюркских языков переводится как «отец яблок».

    de„Alma-Ata“ bedeutet in vielen Turksprachen „Vater der Äpfel".

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Origin

From colloquial Arabic عَالِمَة (ʕālima, “a singer”), originally a feminine adjective mean

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

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Forms

plural: almas / alma / awalim
Singularalma
Pluralalmas / alma / awalim

regular

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

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