harem
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem) Turkish harem, from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram, “something prohibited; sanctuary, women”); and later also from حَرِيم (ḥarīm) with same meaning, both from حَرُمَ (ḥaruma, “be forbidden or unlawful”). Doublet of haram.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛəɹəm, (General American, Canada) -æɹəm, (Received Pronunciation) -iːm
Noun
harem (plural harems)
- The private section of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers.[1841]
- 1841 The Mirza, Volume 3, James Justinian Morier, p. 153
- "In the room next to her own, lived the harem of a merchant who had just arrived from Constantinople with merchandise. It consisted of his wife, children, and two female slaves, who being well off in their circumstances, enjoyed the comforts and conveniences of life, and eat and drank unsparingly every day."
- 1841 The Mirza, Volume 3, James Justinian Morier, p. 153
- A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
- A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals.[2006]
- 2006 Maestripieri, Dario; Mayhew, Jessica; Carlson, Cindy L.; Hoffman, Christy L.; and Radtke, Jennifer M. "One-Male Harems and Female Social Dynamics in Guinea Baboons", published in Folia Primatol 2007; 78:56–68, doi 10.1159/000095686
- (ornithology) A group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 90:
- In the meantime we were hidden in a close juniper thicket on the little knoll, and expected the capercailzie cock every moment; but our old friend tarried a long time in his harem.
- (slang) Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
- (uncountable) A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.
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Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم, from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram).
Pronunciation
Noun
harem m (plural harems, diminutive harempje n)
- harem (private part of an Arab house, esp. the women's quarters)
- Synonym: haremverblijf
- harem (group of female partners in a polygamous household)
- harem (group of female animals belonging to one male)
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Related terms
French
Noun
harem m (plural harems)
Further reading
- “harem”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem) (Modern Turkish harem), from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram, “something prohibited; sanctuary, women”); and later also from حَرِيم (ḥarīm) with same meaning, both from حَرُمَ (ḥaruma, “be forbidden or unlawful”). Doublet of haram.
Pronunciation
Noun
harêm (first-person possessive haremku, second-person possessive haremmu, third-person possessive haremnya)
- harem:
- the private section of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers.
- a group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
- (biology) a group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes; such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals.
- (biology) a group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
Related terms
Further reading
- “harem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem), from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.rem/, (traditional, elevated style) /aˈrɛm/[1]
- Rhymes: -arem, (traditional, elevated style) -ɛm
- Hyphenation: hà‧rem, (traditional, elevated style) ha‧rèm
Noun
harem m (invariable)
References
- ^ harem in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem) (Turkish harem), from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram).
Pronunciation
Noun
harem m inan
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- harem in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- harem in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem), from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram).
Noun
harem n (plural haremuri)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) harem | haremul | (niște) haremuri | haremurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) harem | haremului | (unor) haremuri | haremurilor |
vocative | haremule | haremurilor |
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem), from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram).
Noun
hárem m (Cyrillic spelling ха́рем)
Declension
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem), from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram).
Noun
harem (definite accusative haremi, plural haremler)
Declension
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | harem | |
Definite accusative | haremi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | harem | haremler |
Definite accusative | haremi | haremleri |
Dative | hareme | haremlere |
Locative | haremde | haremlerde |
Ablative | haremden | haremlerden |
Genitive | haremin | haremlerin |
- English terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- English terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English doublets
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ح ر م
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛəɹəm
- Rhymes:English/ɛəɹəm/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/æɹəm
- Rhymes:English/æɹəm/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/iːm
- Rhymes:English/iːm/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Ornithology
- English terms with quotations
- English slang
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- en:Collectives
- en:Japanese fiction
- Dutch terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Dutch terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Dutch terms derived from Arabic
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- Dutch lemmas
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- Dutch masculine nouns
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Indonesian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Indonesian terms derived from Arabic
- Indonesian doublets
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/rəm
- Rhymes:Indonesian/rəm/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/əm
- Rhymes:Indonesian/əm/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/m
- Rhymes:Indonesian/m/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
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- id:Biology
- Italian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Italian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Italian terms derived from Arabic
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/arem
- Rhymes:Italian/arem/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛm
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛm/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
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- Polish terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Polish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
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- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/arɛm
- Rhymes:Polish/arɛm/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
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- Romanian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Romanian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
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- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
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- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Arabic
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