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Alma
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alma álma
English
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Alma.wav US
Etymology 1
Usually explained as en la alma nourishing, kind. It has also been used as a short form of en gem compound names beginning with the element Amal-, as in Amelia.
Proper noun
en female Latin, popular in the 19th century.
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
en Mormonism One of two prophets, the Elder and the Younger, and a book in the Book of Mormon.
en Places in the <<c/USA>>:
en unincorporated community co/Clarke County s/Alabama.
en city co/Crawford County s/Arkansas.
en ghost town co/Santa Clara County s/California.
en statutory town co/Park County s/Colorado.
en city/county seat co/Bacon County s/Georgia.
en village co/Marion County s/Illinois.
en ghost town par/Pointe Coupee Parish s/Louisiana.
en small city/county seat co/Wabaunsee County s/Kansas.
en city co/Gratiot County s/Michigan.
en small city co/Lafayette County s/Missouri.
en small city/county seat co/Harlan County s/Nebraska.
en unincorporated community co/Catron County s/New Mexico.
en town co/Allegany County s/New York.
en unincorporated community co/Ross County s/Ohio.
en unincorporated community co/Stephens County s/Oklahoma.
en unincorporated community co/Lane County s/Oregon.
en town co/Ellis County s/Texas.
en unincorporated community co/Page County s/Virginia.
en small city/county seat co/Buffalo County s/Wisconsin.
en town co/Buffalo County s/Wisconsin.
en town co/Jackson County s/Wisconsin.
en Places in <<c/Canada>>:
en village co/Albert County p/New Brunswick.
en unincorporated rural community co/Pictou County p/Nova Scotia.
en unincorporated rural community co/Wellington County p/Ontario.
en settlement p/Prince Edward Island.
en town p/Quebec.
en locality shire:Pref/Central Goldfields central s/Victoria c/Australia
en Boudouaou, Algeria.
Translations
female given name
Danish: da Alma
Finnish: fi Alma
Galician: gl Alma f
German: de Alma
Hebrew: he עַלְמָה 'álma
Latvian: lv Alma
Norwegian: no Alma
Serbo-Croatian: sh Alma
Spanish: es Alma
Swedish: sv Alma
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en space science en ALMA, en w:Atacama Large Millimeter Array 1.
Anagrams
en aalm amla Alam lama Amal laam Lama mala LAMA
Albanian
Proper noun
f
sq female
Danish
Proper noun
da female Alma
Dutch
Etymology
nl
Pronunciation
nl /ˈɑl.maː/
nl Al ma
Proper noun
n
nl neighbourhood c/Winterswijk p/Gelderland c/Netherlands
Estonian
Proper noun
et female Alma
Faroese
Proper noun
fo proper noun
fo female Alma
Usage notes
f Almuson Almudóttir
Declension
Alma Almu Almu Almu
Finnish
Etymology
From fi la alma, but see also en Alma.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi female Alma
fi 1984 w:fi:Veronica Pimenoff Loistava Helena Tammi 951-30-6142-6 44 —On tämä vähän hassua kun ei niistä tiedä mitään.—Nimet sentään. Jos jonkun nimi on Alma niin sen täytyy olla lihava. —It is a bit funny when you don't know anything of them.—Well, the name. If someone's Alma she's got to be fat.
Declension
Alm a
Derived terms
fi compounds kassialma
Statistics
dvv_20250813 3301 1740 187
References
Anagrams
fi aalm lama
German
Pronunciation
de De-Alma.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
f
de female Alma
Latvian
Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians during 1825 - 1850 . From lv la alma, and a contraction of lv Amālija.
Proper noun
lv proper noun f
lv female Alma
References
Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, 5-7966-0278-0
Population Register of Latvia: Alma was the only given name of 904 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
Álma
Proper noun
f
lt female
Norwegian
Proper noun
no proper noun
no female Alma
Romanian
Etymology
ro hu Almás, from hu almás apple tree grove, from hu alma apple.
Pronunciation
ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Alma.wav
Proper noun
f
ro commune county/Sibiu c/Romania
ro village commune/Alma county/Sibiu c/Romania
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
sh proper noun
sh female Alma
Declension
Alm
Further reading
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es female Alma
Swedish
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Alma.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female Alma
Anagrams
sv aalm lama
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor en:Alma + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
+
tl female English
Anagrams
tl aalm alam