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.

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

Translations

a neighborhood in northern Manhattan

• Chinese:

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

• Japanese: ハーレム (Hāremu)
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• Mongolian: Харлем (Xarlem)
• Russian: Га́рлем m (Gárlem), Ха́рлем (ru) m (Xárlem) (rare)

Further reading

• Harlem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hamler, Mahler, Mahrle, harmel