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5 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
originBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem) (whence 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 and herem.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0