Noun: alma
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | alma |
| Plural f | almas |
Sample Sentences
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Ó sino da minha aldeia, / Dolente na tarde calma, / Cada tua badalada / Soa dentro da minha alma. (Oh bell of my village, / Mournful in this peaceful afternoon, / Each one of your tollings / Resounds in my soul.) [1913, Fernando Pessoa, Ó sino da minha aldeia:]
Nouns inflected like alma
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese alma, from Latin anima (“soul, breath”). Doublet of anima, borrowed from the same source. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
alma', Latin Nouns '
anima'.
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