macramé

See also: macrame and macramè

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French macramé, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian macramè, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Turkish makreme, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmækɹəˌmeɪ/, /məˈkɹɑːmi/, /məˈkɹɑːmeɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmi, -ɑːmeɪ

Noun

macramé (countable and uncountable, plural macramés)

1. A form of decorative textile made by knotting and weaving.

Translations

textile

• Basque: makrame
• Bulgarian: макраме n (makrame)
• Dutch: macramé (nl) n
• Esperanto: makrameo, makramo
• Finnish: makramee
• French: macramé (fr) m
• German: Makramee (de) n
• Hebrew: מַקְרָמֶה (he) m (makrame)
• Hungarian: makramé
• Irish: macraime m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: macramè (it) m
• Kazakh: макраме (makrame)
• Persian: مکرمه (makrame)
• Polish: makrama f
• Portuguese: macramé (pt) m
• Russian: макраме́ (ru) n (makramɛ́)
• Spanish: macramé (es) m
• Swedish: makramé (sv) c
• Turkish: makreme (tr)
• Ukrainian: макраме n (makrame)

Verb

macramé (third-person singular simple present macramés, present participle macraméing, simple past and past participle macraméed or macraméd)

1. To create textiles using the macramé technique.

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French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian macramè, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Turkish makreme, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.kʁa.me/

Noun

macramé m (plural macramés)

1. macramé

Further reading

• “macramé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Spanish

Noun

macramé m (plural macramés)

1. macramé