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almas

almas is the plural of alma.

Meaning of alma

Noun

alma (plural almas or alma or awalim)

  1. An Egyptian female singer or dancing girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.

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Noun (1)

almas (uncountable)

  1. caviar from the albino beluga

Noun (2) capitalized: ALMAs

ALMAs

  1. (plural) plural of ALMA.

Proper noun capitalized: Almas

Almas (plural Almases)

  1. A surname.

Forms of almas

pluralAlmases

Origin of almas

Borrowed from Russian алма́з (almáz, “diamond”).

Various origins: * Borrowed from Arabic أَلْمَاس (ʔalmās, “diamond”), a surname predominantly found in Pakistan. * Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Almas, plural form of Alma. * Borrowed from Hungarian Almás, from alma (“apple”), thus a metonymic occupational surname for a grower or seller of apples.

Questions about almas

What does almas mean?
Almas means caviar from the albino beluga.
What is almas the plural of?
Almas is the plural of alma.
What part of speech is almas?
Almas can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near almas in the dictionary

  1. Almaraz
  2. Almarazes
  3. Almario
  4. Almarios
  5. almarudite
  6. almas
  7. Almases
  8. almasilate
  9. Almaty
  10. Almayne
  11. Almazan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: almas (page history and authors); ALMAs (page history and authors); Almas (page history and authors); alma (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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