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Egyptian dancing girl
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almah
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Almah is the first album of Almah , a solo project of Brazilian heavy metal singer and Angra frontman Edu Falaschi . The lyrics are about the different feelings of the human being and the title phonetically means "soul" in the Portuguese language. It was ...
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n. An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; a dancing-girl, a prostitute. (from 18th c.)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Alma \Al"ma\, Almah \Al"mah\, n. Same as Alme .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Egyptian dancing-girl, belly-dancer, 1814, perhaps from Arabic almah (fem. adjective), "learned, knowing," from alama "to know." Or perhaps from a Semitic root meaning "girl" (cognates: Hebrew alma "a young girl, a damsel").