An Egyptian female singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; sometimes a prostitute.
Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl. She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.
Ultimately from Arabic عَالِمَة (ʕālima, “singer”), originally a feminine adjective meaning ‘learned, knowledgeable’, from عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”).
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