Alma

Usually explained as Latin alma (“nourishing, kind”). It has also been used as a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Amal-, as in Amelia.

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Alma

1. A female given name from Latin, popular in the 19th century.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 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 […]

2. (Mormonism) One of two prophets, the Elder and the Younger, and a book in the Book of Mormon.
3. Places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama.
   2. A city in Crawford County, Arkansas.
   3. A ghost town in Santa Clara County, California.
   4. A statutory town in Park County, Colorado.
   5. A city, the county seat of Bacon County, Georgia.
   6. A village in Marion County, Illinois.
   7. A ghost town in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
   8. A small city, the county seat of Wabaunsee County, Kansas.
   9. A city in Gratiot County, Michigan.
   10. A small city in Lafayette County, Missouri.
   11. A small city, the county seat of Harlan County, Nebraska.
   12. An unincorporated community in Catron County, New Mexico.
   13. A town in Allegany County, New York.
   14. An unincorporated community in Ross County, Ohio.
   15. An unincorporated community in Stephens County, Oklahoma.
   16. An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
   17. A town in Ellis County, Texas.
   18. An unincorporated community in Page County, Virginia.
   19. A small city, the county seat of Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
   20. A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
   21. A town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
4. Places in Canada:
   1. A village in Albert County, New Brunswick.
   2. An unincorporated rural community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
   3. An unincorporated rural community of Wellington County, Ontario.
   4. A settlement in Prince Edward Island.
   5. A town in Quebec.
5. Former name of Boudouaou, Algeria.

Alma

1. (space science) Non-standard capitalisation of ALMA (Acronym of Atacama Large Millimeter Array.)

• amla, Alam, lama, Amal, laam, Lama, mala, LAMA

Alma

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.maː/
• Hyphenation: Al‧ma

Alma n

1. A neighbourhood of Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands

Alma (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma

Alma

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma

Matronymics

• son of Alma: Almuson
• daughter of Alma: Almudóttir

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Alma
Accusative	Almu
Dative	Almu
Genitive	Almu

From Latin alma, but see also English Alma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlmɑ/, [ˈɑ̝lmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlmɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): Al‧ma

Alma

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma
   • 1984, Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, page 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.

• Alma is the 205^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,951 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,600 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• lama

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Alma f (proper noun, genitive Alma)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma

First recorded as a given name of Latvians during 1825 - 1850 . From Latin alma, and a contraction of Amālija.

Alma f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Alma was the only given name of 904 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Alma f

1. a female given name

Alma

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma

Borrowed from Hungarian Almás, from almás (“apple tree grove”), from alma (“apple”).

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Alma f

1. A commune of Sibiu, Romania
2. A village in Alma, Sibiu, Romania

Alma

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma

• “Alma”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈalma/ [ˈal.ma]
• Rhymes: -alma
• Syllabification: Al‧ma

Alma f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma

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Alma c (genitive Almas)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Alma

• lama

Borrowed from English Alma.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalma/ [ˈʔal.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -alma
• Syllabification: Al‧ma

Alma (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜋ)

1. a female given name from English

• alam