Alma
Alma is a Latin name which means "nourishing", a word in Spanish and Portuguese which means "soul", the Hungarian word for "apple", "learned" in Arabic and a name for a young woman, a maiden, in Hebrew. Alma may refer to:
Places
- "Alma", a city alliance of Aachen (Germany), Liège (Belgium) and Maastricht (Netherlands)
Australia
- Alma, Victoria, a gold mining town in Victoria, Australia
- Port Alma, Queensland.
Canada
- Alma, New Brunswick, a fishing village on the Bay of Fundy
- Alma, Ontario, a small village in Ontario, Canada
- Alma, Quebec, a town in Quebec, Canada
- Lake Alma, Saskatchewan, a village in Saskatchewan, Canada
France
- Alma Bridge, a remembrance bridge dedicated to the Battle of Alma in Paris, France
Kazakhstan
- Almaty, Kazakhstan, the largest city and former capital of Kazakhstan
Malaysia
- Alma, Penang, a town that is in between Bukit Mertajam, Penang and Kulim, Kedah of Malaysia.
New Zealand
- Alma, New Zealand, a small locality in the North Otago district of New Zealand
- Alma River, New Zealand
South Africa
- Alma, Limpopo, a village in the Limpopo Province
Ukraine
- Alma River (Ukraine), site of the 1854 Battle of Alma in the Crimean War
United States
- Alma, Arkansas
- Alma, Colorado
- Alma, Georgia
- Alma, Illinois
- Alma, Kansas
- Alma, Michigan
- Alma College
- Alma, Missouri
- Alma, Nebraska
- Alma, New Mexico
- Alma, New York
- Alma, Texas
- Alma, Wisconsin, a city in Buffalo County
- Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town in Buffalo County
- Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town in Jackson County
- Alma Center, Wisconsin, a village in Jackson County
People
- Alma Cogan (1932-1966), British pop singer of the 1950s and '60s
- Alma Mahler (1879-1964), wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel and subject of a song by Tom Lehrer
- Alma the Elder, a person in the Books of Mosiah and Alma, part of The Book of Mormon
- Alma the Younger, the son of Alma the Elder, namesake of the Book of Alma in The Book of Mormon
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painter
- Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican journalist
- Alma Reville, wife of Alfred Hitchcock, assistant director, screenwriter and editor
Fictional characters
- Alma, an antagonist from the game F.E.A.R.
- Alma Halliwell, a character on the soap opera Coronation Street and one-time wife of Mike Baldwin
- Alma Beoulve, a character in the PlayStation video game Final Fantasy Tactics
- Alma Hodge, character on the soap opera Desperate Housewives
- Alma, a Greater Fiend from the video game Ninja Gaiden (Xbox)
Other
- Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), an array of radio telescopes in Chile
- Alma (1891), an 1891-built scow schooner now preserved in San Francisco, California
- Alma (novel), a novel by Oswald de Andrade, 1922
- Alma (play), a drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma Mahler-Werfel
- Alma Cogan (novel), by Gordon Burn
- Almas (cryptozoology), a Mongolian name for wild man (singular), a cryptozoological species
- Alma (1926 automobile), an inter-war French automobile
- Alma-0, a programming language
- ALMA Magazine, Spanish language magazine for the Hispanic community in the U.S.
- ALMA Awards, U.S. awards for Latinos performers
- Alma mater, a term of academia
- A name for the wild apple, malus sieversii, in Kazakh and Hungarian
- The Book of Alma in The Book of Mormon
- Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing & Acoustics International (ALMA International), a professional organization for the global loudspeaker industry
- ALMA - Austinites Lobbying for Municipal Accountability (Citizens' Coalition), a citizens' coalition dedicated to keeping the power in the hands of the people and to protecting people's homes.
- Tropical Storm Alma, any of several named tropical cyclones
- Advanced Language Management (ALMA), an English Language Training firm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and franchisor holder for The Living Classrooms.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Alma". Image Credit.