Noun: alma
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | alma |
| Plural f | almas |
Sample Sentences
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Ay Jan cata non te enfermes, nen sentencies con malicia, cata que a yalma perdes. (Oh, Xan, look, don't get sick, or sentence with malice; watch out, because you are losing the soul) [1594, anonymous author, Entremés dos pastores:]
Nouns inflected like alma
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese alma, from Latin anima. The dialectal form ialma contains an antihiatic sandhi semi-vowel generated in the usual expression a alma, "the soul". Doublet of ánima. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
alma', Latin Nouns '
anima'.
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