alms

Etymology
From, , , from , from , a borrowing from , from , from , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
 * She gave $10 weekly to the poor as alms.
 * Alms are distributed from the weekly collection for the purpose.
 * 1) * c. 1779, Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints
 * St. Antoninus never refused an alms which was asked in the name of God.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: صَدَقَة, خَيْر
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: sədəqə
 * Bashkir: хәйер, саҙаҡа
 * Belarusian: мі́ласціна
 * Bengali:, , ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chichewa: sadaka
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 施捨物,
 * Cornish: alusennow
 * Czech:
 * Danish: almisse
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: སྦྱིན་པ
 * Emilian: limòśna
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მოწყალება
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌸𐌰, 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍉
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐλεημοσύνη
 * Gujarati: ભીખ
 * Gullah: aa’ms
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ख़ैरात, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ölmusa
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Irish: almsa, déirc, foighe, oirchiseacht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 施し物, 施し
 * Kazakh: садақа, қайыр, зекет
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 구호금,
 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Lao: ຂອງທານ, ຂອງໄຫ້ທານ, ທານ
 * Latin: stips, eleēmosyna
 * Latvian: dāvanas
 * Lithuanian: išmalda
 * Macedonian: милостина
 * Malay: sedekah
 * Maltese: limosja
 * Maori: moni aroha, koha aroha
 * Marathi: भीक
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Nepali: दान, भिख
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: almisse
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: милостꙑн҄и
 * Old Marathi: 𑘥𑘲𑘎
 * Pali: bhikkhā, dāna, bhikkhā
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:, تسک,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Prakrit: 𑀪𑀺𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀸, 𑀪𑀺𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀸
 * Punjabi: ਭਿੱਖ, بھِکّھ
 * Quechua: t'itu
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scots: aumous
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мило̀стиња
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: almužna, milodar
 * Slovene: miloščina
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: limos
 * Tajik: садақа, хайр
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:, ไทยทาน
 * Tibetan: སྦྱིན་པ
 * Tocharian B: pintwāt, yāṣṣu
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: sadaka, haýyr
 * Ukrainian: ми́лостиня
 * Urdu: صدقہ, خیرات, بِھیک
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: của bố thí,
 * Yiddish: צדקה