harem

See also: hárem, harém, and Harem

English

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”).

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːɹiːm/, /(ˌ)hɑːˈɹiːm/, /ˈhɛəɹəm/
  • IPA: /ˈhɛrəm/
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhæɹəm/, /ˈhɛəɹəm/

Noun

harem (plural harems)

  1. The private part 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."
  2. A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
  3. 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
  4. (slang) Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
  5. (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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم‎ (harem), from Arabic حَرَم‎ (ḥaram).

Noun

harem m (invariable)

  1. harem

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم‎ (harem) (Turkish harem), from Arabic حَرَم‎ (ḥaram).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈxa.rɛm/
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Noun

harem m inan

  1. harem

Declension
declension of harem
singular plural
nominative harem haremy
genitive haremu haremów
dative haremowi haremom
accusative harem haremy
instrumental haremem haremami
locative haremie haremach
vocative haremie haremy

Derived terms
  • haremowy

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم‎ (harem), from Arabic حَرَم‎ (ḥaram).

Noun

hárem m (Cyrillic spelling ха́рем)

  1. harem

Declension
Declension of harem
singular plural
nominative harem haremi
genitive harema harema
dative haremu haremima
accusative harem hareme
vocative hareme haremi
locative haremu haremima
instrumental haremom haremima

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish حرم‎ (harem), from Arabic حَرَم‎ (ḥaram).

Noun

harem (definite accusative haremi, plural haremler)

  1. harem

Declension
Inflection
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
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