houri
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French houri, from Persian حوری, from Arabic حور in حورالعين ‘(women) with eyes like gazelles’.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhʊəɹi/
[edit] Noun
houri (plural houris)
- (Islam) A nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.
- Any voluptuous, beautiful woman.
- Jane Eyre: by Charlotte Brontë - 1850
- I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio, gazelle eyes, houri- forms and all!
[edit] Finnish
[edit] Verb
houri
- Third-person singular indicative past form of houria.
- Indicative present connegative form of houria.
- Second-person singular imperative present form of houria.
- Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of houria.
