English

Proper noun

Alma

1. A female given name, popular in the 19th century.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: II:ix:18:

     Alma she called was, a virgin bright:/ That had not yet felt Cupides wanton rage,/ Yet was she woo'd of many a gentle knight

2. Places in the U.S., Canada, and several other countries.
3. (Mormonism) One of two prophets, the Elder and the Younger, and a book in the Book of Mormon.

Translations

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Alma

1. (space science) Non-standard capitalisation of ALMA (Acronym of Atacama Large Millimeter Array.)

Anagrams

• lama
• mala

Danish

Proper noun

Alma

1. A female given name, cognate to English Alma.

Faroese

Proper noun

Alma

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Alma: Almuson
• daughter of Alma: Almudóttir

Declension

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑlmɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlmɑ
• Hyphenation: Al‧ma

Proper noun

Alma

1. A female given name, cognate with English Alma.
   • 1984 Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, ISBN 951-30-6142-6, page 44:

     —On tämä vähän hassua kun ei niistä tiedä mitään.

     —Nimet sentään. Jos jonkun nimi on Alma niin sen täytyy olla lihava.

Declension

Derived terms

• kassialma

Anagrams

• lama

German

Proper noun

Alma ? ‎(genitive Alma)

1. A female given name, cognate to English Alma.

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians during 1825 - 1850 . From Latin alma, and a contraction of Amālija.

Proper noun

Alma f

1. A female given name.

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• Population Register of Latvia: Alma was the only given name of 904 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Alma

1. A female given name, cognate to English Alma.

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Alma

1. A female given name

Spanish

Proper noun

Alma f

1. A female given name.

Swedish

Proper noun

Alma

1. A female given name, cognate to English Alma.

English

Alternative forms

• almah

Noun

alma ‎(plural almas or alma)

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

Anagrams

• lama
• mala

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin anima.

Noun

alma f ‎(plural almes)

1. soul

Synonyms

• ánima

Azeri

Etymology

From Old Turkic almıla, from Proto-Turkic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑɫˈmɑ/

Noun

alma ‎(definite accusative almanı, plural almalar)

1. apple

Declension

Verb

alma

1. second-person negative imperative of almaq

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin anima.

Noun

alma f ‎(plural almas)

1. soul (of a living person)

See also

• ánima

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese alma.

Noun

alma

1. soul

Hungarian

alma

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From a Turkic language, compare Azeri alma, Turkish elma.

Noun

alma ‎(plural almák)

1. apple

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• nem esik messze az alma a fájától

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 Provençal^[2] (compare Occitan anma, arma). Doublet of anima.

Noun

alma f ‎(plural alme)

1. (literary) soul

Synonyms

• anima

Anagrams

• lama
• mala

References

1. ↑ http://www.sapere.it/enciclopedia/alma.html
2. ↑ http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alma_%28Enciclopedia-Dantesca%29/?

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin anima.

Noun

alma f ‎(Latin spelling, plural almas)

1. soul

Latin

Adjective

alma f

1. feminine singular of almus

References

• ALMA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• alma in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin anima ‎(“soul, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *ane- ‎(“to breathe, blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal̪.ma/

Noun

alma f ‎(plural almas)

1. soul
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 26 (facsimile):

     e logo chegar..a alma tomar demões q̇ a leuarõ. mui toſte ſẽ tardar

     and soon devils arrived, seizing the soul, and took it very quickly without delay

Synonyms

• espirito

Descendants

• Galician: alma
• Portuguese: alma

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese alma, from Latin anima ‎(“soul, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *ane- ‎(“to breathe, blow”). 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]

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 intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Synonyms

• ánima

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)