"almah" meaning in English

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          "text": "Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl. She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.",
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          "word": "alma"
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          "word": "almée"
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      "sense": "dancing-girl",
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      "word": "almea"
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