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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ḥarīm حَريم , pl. ḥurum 
ID 208 • Sw – • BP 4832 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḤRM 
n. 
1 a sacred, inviolable place, sanctum, sanctuary, sacred precinct; 2a harem; b female members of the family, women; c wife – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ A quasi-PP I, *ʻseparated, secluded, taboo’, from ḥarama ʻto deprive, withdraw, withhold, deny; to exclude, preclude, cut off’, perh. denom. from ↗ḥaram ‘forbidden, prohibited, inviolable, taboo, sacred’, hence also especially ‘female members of the family, women’.
▪ Accord. to Huehnergard2011, ḥarīm is the source of Engl harem; see below, section WEST, as well as s.v. ↗ḥaram.
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▪ Engl harem, from Ar ḥarīm ‘sanctuary, inviolable place, harem’, from ḥarama, vb. I, ‘to exclude, deny, prohibit’ – Huehnergard2011. – According to EtymOnline, the etymology of Engl harem is rather via Tu ḥarem from Ar ↗ḥaram. 
►ḥarīmī, adj., women’s (in compounds), for women: nisba formation from the preceding.

For further related items, see ↗ḥaram, ↗ḥarām, ↗ḥirām, ↗ḥarāmī, ↗maḥramaẗ, and, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤRM. 
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