英:[ælmə'mɑ:tʃ]
美:[ælmə'mɑtʃ]
英:[ælmə'mɑ:tʃ]
美:[ælmə'mɑtʃ]
noun
a platform in a Jewish synagogue bearing the reading desk from which are read the Pentateuch and the Prophets called alsobema, bimah
Hebrew almēmār, from Arabic al-minbar the pulpit
The first known use of almemar was in 1731