alma

See also: Alma and álma

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæl.mə/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun

alma (plural almas or alma)

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

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin anima.

Noun

alma f (plural almes)

  1. soul

Synonyms

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic алма
Roman alma
Perso-Arabic آلما‎

Etymology 1

Cognate with Old Turkic [Term?], from Proto-Turkic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑɫˈmɑ/
  • Azerbaijani(file)

Noun

alma (definite accusative almanı, plural almalar)

  1. apple
Declension
Declension of alma
singular plural
nominative alma almalar
definite accusative almanı almaları
dative almaya almalara
locative almada almalarda
ablative almadan almalardan
definite genitive almanın almaların

Etymology 2

Verb

alma

  1. second-person singular negative imperative of almaq

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin anima. Doublet of ánima.

Noun

alma f (plural almas)

  1. soul (of a living person)

See also

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese alma.

Noun

alma

  1. soul

Hungarian

alma

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒlmɒ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: al‧ma

Etymology 1

From a Turkic language. Compare Azerbaijani alma, Turkish elma.

Noun

alma (plural almák)

  1. apple
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative alma almák
accusative almát almákat
dative almának almáknak
instrumental almával almákkal
causal-final almáért almákért
translative almává almákká
terminative almáig almákig
essive-formal almaként almákként
essive-modal — —
inessive almában almákban
superessive almán almákon
adessive almánál almáknál
illative almába almákba
sublative almára almákra
allative almához almákhoz
elative almából almákból
delative almáról almákról
ablative almától almáktól
Possessive forms of alma
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. almám almáim
2nd person sing. almád almáid
3rd person sing. almája almái
1st person plural almánk almáink
2nd person plural almátok almáitok
3rd person plural almájuk almáik
Derived terms

Etymology 2

alom +‎ -a

Noun

alma

  1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of alom

Italian

Etymology

Probably from Vulgar Latin *alima, dissimilated form of Latin anima[1] (compare Spanish and Portuguese alma); alternatively, a borrowing from Old Occitan[2] (compare Occitan anma, arma). Doublet of anima.

Noun

alma f (plural alme)

  1. (literary) soul

Synonyms

References

Anagrams

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin anima.

Noun

alma f (Latin spelling, plural almas)

  1. soul

Latin

Adjective

alma f

  1. feminine singular of almus

References

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin anima (“soul, breath”).

Noun

alma f (plural almas)

  1. soul

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin anima (“soul, breath”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal̪.ma/

Noun

alma f (plural almas)

  1. soul

Synonyms

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese alma, from Latin anima (“soul, breath”). Doublet of anima, borrowed from the same source.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈaɫ.mɐ/
  • Hyphenation: al‧ma
  • Rhymes: -awma

Noun

alma f (plural almas)

  1. soul
    • 1913, Fernando Pessoa, “Ó sino da minha aldeia”:
      Ó sino da minha aldeia, / Dolente na tarde calma, / Cada tua badalada / Soa dentro da minha alma.
      Oh bell of my village, / Lazy in this peaceful afternoon, / Each one of your tollings / Resounds in my soul.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin anima. Doublet of ánima, borrowed from the same source.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalma/
  • Audio (Latin America)(file)

Noun

alma f (plural almas)

  1. soul

Usage notes

  • The feminine noun alma is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:
el alma
  • However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Synonyms

Turkish

Etymology 1

Verb

alma

  1. second-person negative imperative of almak
  2. second-person imperative of almamak

Etymology 2

Noun

alma (definite accusative almayı, plural almalar)

  1. (obsolete) apple (elma is the preferred spelling in modern Turkish)

Turkmen

Noun

alma (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

  1. apple
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