Harlem

English

Etymology

(New York City): From Dutch Nieuw Haarlem (“new Haarlem”), the original name of the area under the Dutch control, after Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː(ɹ)ləm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Harlem

1. A neighborhood in northern Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York State, United States, currently known for its black population.
   • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 159:

     This really was Harlem, and now all the stories which I had heard of the city-within-a-city leaped alive in my mind.

2. Obsolete form of Haarlem. A city in Randstad, North Holland, Netherlands

Derived terms

• Harlem Renaissance

Translations

a neighborhood in northern Manhattan

• Arabic: هارلم (hārlim), هارليم (hārlīm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哈萊姆／哈莱姆 (zh) (Hāláimǔ), 哈林 (Hālín)

• Dutch: Harlem n
• Greek: Χάρλεμ (Chárlem)
• Japanese: ハーレム (Hāremu)
• Mongolian: Харлем (Xarlem)
• Russian: Га́рлем m (Gárlem), Ха́рлем (ru) m (Xárlem) (rare)

Further reading

• Harlem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hamler, Mahler, Mahrle, harmel