different between faithful vs houri

English

Alternative forms

• faithfull (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe??.f?l/

Adjective

faithful (comparative faithfuler or more faithful, superlative faithfulest or most faithful)

1. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.

2. Having faith.
   • 2009, Paul Lakeland, Church: Living Communion (page 162)

     The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.

3. Reliable; worthy of trust.

4. Consistent with reality.

5. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
   • 1976, "Missouri Breakers"[1]

     She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful .

6. (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.

Derived terms

• faithfully
• faithfulness

Translations

See also

• go to the wall for someone
• stand by
• true

Noun

faithful (plural faithfuls)

1. (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.

2. Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.

English

Etymology

From French houri, from Persian ????? (hurî), from Arabic ???????? (??riyy) and Arabic ?????????? (??riyya), adjective and feminine singulative of ????? (??r) from Classical Arabic ????? ?????? (??run ??nun, “fair maidens, black-eyed ones”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h???i/
• enPR: ho?or?
• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

houri (plural houris)

1. (Islam) A nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.
   • 2009, Nerina Rustomji, The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture, Columbia University Press (?ISBN), page 114

   • 2017, Matthew S. Gordon, Kathryn A. Hain, Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 274

2. (by extension) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman.
   • 1850, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:

Translations

Further reading

• houri on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Verb

houri

1. Third-person singular indicative past form of houria.
2. Indicative present connegative form of houria.
3. Second-person singular imperative present form of houria.
4. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of houria.

Anagrams

• roihu, rouhi