macramè
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مقرمه (makrame), from Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”), from قَرَمَ (qarama, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Semitic *q-r-m.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]macramè m (invariable)
References
[edit]- ^ “macramè”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Categories:
- Italian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Italian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Italian terms derived from Arabic
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛ
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛ/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns