# harem
## English
### Alternative forms

* hareem (dated)
* harim (dated)

### 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”). Doublet of haram.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɑːɹiːm/, /(ˌ)hɑːˈɹiːm/, /ˈhɛəɹəm/
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈhæɹəm/, /ˈhɛəɹəm/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛəɹəm, (General American, Canada) -æɹəm, (Received Pronunciation) -iːm

### Noun

harem (countable and uncountable, plural harems)
* The private section of a Muslim household forbidden to male strangers. [1841]
** 1841, James Justinian Morier, The Mirza, volume 3, page 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."
* A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
* 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 (including elephant seals), sea lions, and baboons. [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
* (ornithology) A group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
** 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 90:In the meantime we were hidden in a close juniper thicket on the little knoll, and expected the capercailzie cock every moment; but our old friend tarried a long time in his harem.
* (slang) Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
* (uncountable) A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.

#### Hyponyms

* (private area for wives, women thus kept): zenana (Indian contexts)

#### Derived terms

* harem ending
* harem pants
* harem slipper
* harem trousers
* reverse harem

#### Translations

Albanian: harem (sq) m
Arabic: حَرِيم m (ḥarīm), حَرَمْلِك m (ḥaramlik)
Egyptian Arabic: حريم m (ḥarīm)
Armenian: կանանոց (hy) (kananocʻ), հարեմ (hy) (harem)
Azerbaijani: hərəm, hərəmxana
Belarusian: гарэ́м m (harém)
Bengali: হারেম (bn) (harem), হেরেম (bn) (herem), অন্দরমহল (bn) (ôndôrmôhôl)
Bulgarian: харе́м m (harém)
Catalan: harem (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 後宮 / 后宫 (zh) (hòugōng)
Coptic: ⲁⲡⲉ m (ape)
Czech: harém m
Danish: harem n
Dutch: harem (nl) m, vrouwenverblijf n
Egyptian: (jpt)
Esperanto: haremo
Estonian: haarem
Finnish: haaremi (fi)
French: harem (fr) m, zenana (fr) (South Asia)
Galician: harén (gl) m
Georgian: ჰარამხანა (haramxana)
German: Harem (de) m
Greek: χαρέμι (el) n (charémi)
Hebrew: הַרְמוֹן (he) m (harmón)
Hindi: हरम (hi) (haram), हरमसरा f (harmasrā), रनवास (hi) m (ranvās), जनानख़ाना m (janānxānā), जनानखाना (hi) m (janānkhānā), अंतःपुर (hi) m (antaḥpur), महलसरा (hi) m (mahlasrā)
Hungarian: hárem (hu)
Icelandic: kvennabúr (is) n
Ido: haremo (io)
Indonesian: harem (id)
Japanese: ハーレム (ja) (hāremu), 後宮 (ja) (こうきゅう, kōkyū)
Kazakh: харам (xaram), харамхана (xaramxana), гарем (garem)
Korean: 하렘 (harem), 후궁 (ko) (hugung)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: harem (ku)
Kyrgyz: гарем (ky) (garem)
Latvian: harēms m
Lithuanian: haremas m
Macedonian: харем m (harem)
Malay: haram (ms), harem (ms)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: harem n
Nynorsk: harem n
Pashto: حرم (ps) m (harám), حرمسراى m (haramsarãy)
Persian: حریم (fa) (harim), حرم‌سرا (haram-sarâ), حرم (fa) (haram)
Polish: harem (pl) m
Portuguese: harém (pt) m
Romanian: harem (ro) n; zenana (ro) f (South Asia)
Russian: гаре́м (ru) m (garém)
Sanskrit: अन्तःपुर (sa) n (antaḥpura)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: харем m, харемлук m
Roman: harem (sh) m, haremluk (sh) m
Slovak: hárem (sk) m
Slovene: harem m
Spanish: harén (es) m, harem (es) m, serrallo m
Swedish: harem (sv) n
Tagalog: harem
Tajik: ҳарам (haram), ҳарамхона (haramxona), ҳарамсаро (haramsaro)
Tatar: хәрәм (xäräm)
Thai: ฮาเร็ม (th) (haa-rem)
Turkish: harem (tr), oda (tr)
Turkmen: harem, haremhana
Ukrainian: гаре́м m (harém)
Urdu: حرم (haram), محل سرا f (mahal-sarā), حرم سرا f (haram-sarā)
Uyghur: ھەرەمخانا (heremxana), ھەرەم (herem)
Uzbek: haram (uz), haramxona (uz)
Vietnamese: hậu cung (vi)
Welsh: senana m (South Asia) :
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#### See also

* concubine
* polygamy
* polygyny
* seraglio
* zenana

### Anagrams

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

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French harem, from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram, “something prohibited; sanctuary, women”). Doublet of haram.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əˈɾɛm]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aˈɾem]

### Noun

harem m (plural harems)
* harem

### See also

* serrall

### Further reading

* “harem” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɦaː.rəm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ha‧rem

### Noun

harem m (plural harems, diminutive harempje n)
* harem (private part of an Arab house, esp. the women's quarters)
    Synonym: haremverblijf
* harem (group of female partners in a polygamous household)
* harem (group of female animals belonging to one male)

#### Hypernyms

* vrouwenverblijf
* vrouwenvertrek

#### Derived terms

* harembroek
* haremdame
* haremeunuch
* haremvrouw
* haremwachter

#### Related terms

* haram

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

harem m (plural harems)
* harem

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem) (Modern 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”). Doublet of haram.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈharəm]
* Rhymes: -rəm, -əm, -m
* Hyphenation: ha‧rêm

### Noun

harêm (uncountable)
* harem:
** the private section of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers
** a group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household
** (biology) 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
** (biology) a group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male

#### Related terms

* haram

### Further reading

* “harem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.rem/, (traditional, elevated style) /aˈrɛm/
* Rhymes: -arem, (traditional, elevated style) -ɛm
* Hyphenation: hà‧rem, (traditional, elevated style) ha‧rèm

### Noun

harem m (invariable)
* harem

### References

* ↑ harem in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxa.rɛm/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arɛm
* Syllabification: ha‧rem

### Noun

harem m inan
* harem (the private part of an Arab household)
* (Islam) harem (group of women in a polygamous household)
* (humorous) harem (group of women gathered around one man they are interested in)
* harem (group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male)

#### Derived terms

* haremowy

#### Related terms

* haremowo

### Further reading

* harem in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* harem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* харем (harem) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

### Etymology

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

### Noun

harem n (plural haremuri)
* harem

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

hárem m (Cyrillic spelling ха́рем)
* harem

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

harem n
* a harem

#### See also

* haram

### References

* harem in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* harem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* harem in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

harem (definite accusative haremi, plural haremler)
* harem