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almah
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Ultimately from Arabic عَالِمَة (ʕālima, “singer”), originally a feminine adjective meaning ‘learned, knowledgeable’, from عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”).
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almah (plural almahs or almah or awalim)
- An Egyptian female singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; sometimes a prostitute. [from 18th c.]
- 1998, Hélène Cixous, translated by Catherine Gillivray, Firstdays of the Year, Minnesota, page 157:
- Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl. She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.
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