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(in egypt) a woman or girl who dances or sings professionally.
historical examples

the kohen alone landed; the rest remained on board, and almah and i with them.
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he said something, whereupon almah arose and beckoned to me to follow.
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each bird carried two men, but for almah and me there was a bird apiece.
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almah had spoken these words and stood looking at me with a face of woe.
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she never noticed her, she never spoke of her, and she always made her visits to me after almah had gone.
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as for almah, she stood pale and trembling, with a face of horror.
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there was but one thought in my mind—it was not of myself, but of almah.
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almah was with me, and so long as she was spared to me i could endure this life.
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you and almah are victims and the state has given you the matchless honor of death.
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this, too, seemed probable to almah, who was quite anxious to go.
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n.

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” (cf. hebrew alma “a young girl, a damsel”).