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 Definitions of harem  [ˈhɛər əm, ˈhær-]  

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Definition of 'harem' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) harem
the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.

2.  harem
the women in a Muslim household, including the mothers, sisters, wives, concubines, daughters, entertainers, and servants.

3.  harem
a social group of female animals, as elephant seals, accompanied by a reproductive male who denies other males access to the group.

Etymology:  (1625–35; < Ar &hdotbelow;arīm harem, lit., forbidden)

Definition of 'harem' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) harem, hareem, seraglio, serail
living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household


Definition of 'harem' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) harem
the apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families

2. (noun) harem
the family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio


Definitions of 'harem' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  harem
the apartment or suite of apartments in a Mohammedan's house for the female inmates and their attendants, and the name given to the collective body of them.


Translation of 'harem' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the part of a Muslim house occupied by the women.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: harem, vroueverblyf Arabic flag Arabic: حَريم Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: харем
Brazilian flag Brazilian: harém Czech flag Czech: harém German flag German: der Harem
Danish flag Danish: harem Greek flag Greek: χαρέμι Spanish flag Spanish: harén
Estonian flag Estonian: haarem Farsi flag Farsi: اندرونی؛ حرمسرا Finnish flag Finnish: haaremi
French flag French: harem Hebrew flag Hebrew: הָרמוֹן Hindi flag Hindi: अन्त:पुर
Croatian flag Croatian: harem Hungarian flag Hungarian: hárem Indonesian flag Indonesian: harem
Icelandic flag Icelandic: kvennabúr Italian flag Italian: harem Japanese flag Japanese: ハレム
Korean flag Korean: 하렘(동양 특히 회교국의 궁전이나 가옥의 규방 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: haremas Latvian flag Latvian: harēms
Malay flag Malay: harem Dutch flag Dutch: harem Norwegian flag Norwegian: harem
Polish flag Polish: harem Persian flag Persian: اندرونی؛ حرمسرا Pashto flag Pashto: حرمسراى ، دهرامسراى ښځى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: harém Romanian flag Romanian: harem Russian flag Russian: гарем
Slovak flag Slovak: hárem Slovenian flag Slovenian: harem Serbian flag Serbian: harem
Swedish flag Swedish: harem Thai flag Thai: ส่วนของบ้านคนมุสลิมสำหรับ Turkish flag Turkish: harem
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (回教國家的)後宮 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: гарем Urdu flag Urdu: زنان خانہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: hậu cung Chinese flag Chinese: (伊斯兰教国家中的)闺阁

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