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.

Alma

1. A female given name, popular in the 19th century.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX, 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 U.S., Canada, and several other countries.
   1. a city in Georgia, USA, and the county seat of Bacon County.
   2. a small city in Kansas, USA, and the county seat of Wabaunsee County.
   3. a small city in Nebraska, USA, and the county seat of Harlan County.
   4. a town in Allegany County, New York, USA.
   5. a small city in Wisconsin, USA, and the county seat of Buffalo County.

Alma

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

• Alam, Amal, amla, laam, lama, mala

Alma

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑlmɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlmɑ
• Hyphenation: 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.

• kassialma

• lama

Alma f (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
• Population Register of Latvia: Alma was the only given name of 904 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Alma

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Alma.

Alma

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Alma

• IPA^(key): /ˈalma/

Alma f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Alma.

Alma c (genitive Almas)

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Alma.

Borrowed from English Alma.

Alma

1. A female given name