thumb|Woman giving alms by János Thorma Alms (, ) are money, food, or other material goods donated to people living in poverty. Providing alms is often considered an act of charity. The act of providing alms is called almsgiving.
thumb|Woman giving alms by János Thorma Alms (, ) are money, food, or other material goods donated to people living in poverty. Providing alms is often considered an act of charity. The act of providing alms is called almsgiving.
== Etymology == The word alms comes from the Old English ', ', which comes from Late Latin ', from Greek ' ("pity, alms"), from , ' ("merciful"), from , ', meaning "pity or mercy".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).