harem
French, noun/a.ʁɛm/
harem is spelled H-A-R-E-M (5 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Harem is a French masculine noun meaning “harem” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gynécée chez les musulmans”.
What does harem mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineharem
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gynécée chez les musulmans. 2. Réunion des femmes qui habitent un harem. 3. Ensemble des prostituées exploitées par un même proxénète.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of harem
- harems plural
- ^((h aspiré))\a.ʁɛm\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce harem?
- /a.ʁɛm/
- ^((h aspiré))\a.ʁɛm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to harem
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is harem in French?
harem appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).