hareem
- n living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
- Proud purists who know enough to pronounce harem "hareem" may have suspected that this picture was misleading.
- He is one of the few novelists on record who can spatter their pages with italicized wordsjellabias, bassourabs, girbas, tohs, fil-fil, mehara, hareem, Bismillah!without .