different between harem vs haremlik

English

Alternative forms

• hareem (dated)
• harim (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (harem) Turkish harem, from Arabic ?????? (?aram, “something prohibited; sanctuary, women”); and later also from ??????? (?ar?m) with same meaning, both from ??????? (?aruma, “be forbidden or unlawful”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h???i?m/, /(?)h????i?m/, /?h????m/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?hæ??m/, /?h????m/
• IPA: /?hæ??m/
• IPA: /?h????m/

Noun

harem (plural harems)

1. The private section 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. (ornithology) A group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
5. (slang) Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
6. (uncountable) A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• Hamer, Hamre, Maher, Mehra, Rhame, herma, rhema

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (harem), from Arabic ?????? (?aram).

Noun

harem m (invariable)

1. harem

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (harem) (Turkish harem), from Arabic ?????? (?aram).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.r?m/

Noun

harem m inan

1. harem

Declension

Derived terms

• haremowy

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (harem), from Arabic ?????? (?aram).

Noun

harem n (plural haremuri)

1. harem

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (harem), from Arabic ?????? (?aram).

Noun

hárem m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. harem

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (harem), from Arabic ?????? (?aram).

Noun

harem (definite accusative haremi, plural haremler)

1. harem

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish haremlik

Noun

haremlik (plural haremliks)

1. A harem.

References

Turkish

Noun

haremlik

1. A harem.

Declension