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حرم

“حرم” is an Arabic word. Its 17 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to be sacred, to be sacrosanct, to be inviolable
  2. to be forbidden, to be prohibited, to be interdicted, to be unlawful
  3. to deprive, to dispossess, to divest, to bereave, to withhold, to withdraw, to deny, to refuse
  4. to exclude, to preclude
  5. to excommunicate
  6. to declare sacred, to declare sacrosanct, to declare inviolable, to declare taboo
  7. to declare unlawful, to forbid, to interdict, to proscribe
  8. to immunize

noun

  1. excommunication
  2. pilgrim's cloak
  3. anything sacred
  4. sacred object, sacred possession
  5. wife
  6. sanctum, sanctuary, sacred precinct

adjective

  1. forbidden, prohibited, interdicted
  2. taboo
  3. holy, sacred, sacrosanct

Etymology

Compare Hebrew חֵרֶם (ḥērem, “taboo, consecration”).

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