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awalim

awalim is the plural of alma.

awalim is the plural of alme.

awalim is the plural of almah.

awalim is the plural of almeh.

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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Meaning of almah

Noun

almah (plural almahs or almah or awalim)

  1. An Egyptian female singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; sometimes a prostitute.
    • Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl. She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.1998, Hélène Cixous, translated by Catherine Gillivray, Firstdays of the Year, Minnesota, page 157

Questions about awalim

What is awalim the plural of?
Awalim is the plural of alma.

Words near awalim in the dictionary

  1. awakes
  2. awakest
  3. awaketh
  4. awaking
  5. awakings
  6. awalim
  7. AWALT
  8. Awalts
  9. awameh
  10. Awami League
  11. Awamoan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: awalim (page history and authors); alma (page history and authors); almah (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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