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ha⋅rim

  [hair-uhm, har-, ha-reem]
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–noun
harem.

har⋅em

  [hair-uhm, har-]
–noun
1. the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.
2. the women in a Muslim household, including the mother, sisters, wives, concubines, daughters, entertainers, and servants.
3. Animal Behavior. a social group of females, as elephant seals, accompanied or followed by one fertile male who denies other males access to the group.
4. Facetious or Offensive. a group of women associated in any way with one man or household: Father joked that he had a harem of five daughters.
Also, haram, hareem, harim.

Origin:
1625–35; < Ar harīm harem, lit., forbidden
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harem 
1634, from Turk. harem, from Arabic haram "wives and concubines," originally "women's quarters," lit. "something forbidden or kept safe," from root of harama "he guarded, forbade."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Harim

flat-nosed. (1.) The head of the second course of priests (1 Chr. 24:8). (2.) Ezra 2:32, 39; Neh. 7:35, 42. (3.) Neh. 3:11. (4.) 12:3. (5.) 10:5

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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