harem
noun /ˈhɑːriːm/, /ˈhɑːrəm/
/ˈhærəm/
- the women or wives belonging to a rich man, especially in some Muslim societies in the past
哈来姆(尤指旧时某些穆斯林社会中富人的女眷) - the separate part of a traditional Muslim house where the women live
(穆斯林传统女眷居住的)内室,妇女住房 - (specialist) a group of female animals that share the same male for producing young
Topics Animalsc2眷群(和同一雄性动物交配的一群雌性动物)
词源mid 17th cent. (in sense (2)): from Arabic ḥaram, ḥarīm, literally ‘prohibited, prohibited place’ (hence ‘sanctuary, women's quarters, women’), from ḥarama ‘be prohibited’.