almah
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈæl.mə/
Noun

almah (plural almahs)

  1. An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; a dancing-girl, a prostitute. [from 18th c.]
    • 1998, Catherine Gillivray, translating Hélène Cixous, Firstdays of the Year, Minnesota 1998, p. 157:
      Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl. She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.
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