harem
英 ['hɑːriːm; hɑː'riːm; 'heərəm]
美 ['hærəm]
- n.一人の男性によって管理される多数の女性; 回廊の妾のグループ; （イスラム教徒の）回廊.
語源
ハーレム イスラム教徒の女性の聖域アラビア語のharama（禁じられた場所、聖域）から。女性の寝室や寝室に由来する。
英語の語源
- harem
- harem: [17] Etymologically, Arabic harīm is a ‘forbidden place’. It is a derivative of the verb harama ‘prohibit’ (whence also harmattan, literally ‘the forbidden one’, the name of a dry dusty Saharan wind). Hence it came to be applied to a part of a Muslim house reserved for women, and by extension to the women who lived there – the wives and concubines of the master of the household.
Synonymous terms in English include seraglio, which comes via Italian and Turkish from Persian serāi ‘residence, palace’, and forms the second element of caravanserai, and zenana, which is derived ultimately from Persian zan ‘woman’, a relative of Greek guné ‘woman’ (as in English gynaecology).
- harem (n.)
- 1630s, "part of a Middle Eastern house reserved for women," from Turkish harem, from Arabic haram "wives and concubines," originally "women's quarters," literally "something forbidden or kept safe," from root of harama "he guarded, forbade." From 1784 in English as "wives, female relatives and female slaves in a Middle Eastern household." The harem-skirt was introduced in fashion 1911. Harem pants attested from 1921; fashionable c. 1944.
例文
- 1. The sultan 's wives and concubines live in the harem .
- スーダンの妻妾はハーレムに住んでいる。
- 2.Does the beautiful sorceress belong to your harem too？
- この美しい女性もあなたの妻ですか？
- 3.The third section focused on the etiquette system of the imperial harem .
- 第3部では、ハーレムのマナー制度について述べている。
- 4.It 's said that the emperor had 72 concubines in the emperor 's harem ？
- 皇帝には三宮六院七十二嬪妃がいたと聞いた？
- 5.A concubine or woman slave in harem .
- '妻妾'.''（イスラム教国家における）後宮の妾または女奴。