English

Alternative forms

• alma
• almeh

Noun

almah ‎(plural almahs or almah)

1. An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; a dancing-girl, a prostitute. [from 18th c.]
   • 1998, Catherine Gillivray, translating Hélène Cixous, Firstdays of the Year, Minnesota 1998, p. 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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Anagrams

• halma, Hamal, hamal, Mahal, mahal