英语词汇harem的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	harem
词源	harem. Used by the Greeks before any Arabian, and called a gynaeceum by them, harem does take its name from the Arabi- an harim, “sacred or forbidden place.” Harem first meant the section of a house in which the wives and concubines of a Mus- lim lived and then was applied to the women themselves.
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