محرم

• IPA^(key): /mu.ħar.ram/

Derived from the passive participle of حَرَّمَ (ḥarrama, “to forbid”); compare حَرَام (ḥarām, “forbidden”).

مُحَرَّم • (muḥarram) (feminine مُحَرَّمَة (muḥarrama), masculine plural مُحَرَّمُونَ (muḥarramūna), feminine plural مُحَرَّمَات (muḥarramāt))

1. forbidden

• → Portuguese: marrão
• → Spanish: marrano
  • → Catalan: marrà
  • → English: marrano
  • → French: marrane
  • → Italian: marrano
  • → Portuguese: marrano
  • → Dutch: maraan
  • → Swedish: marran
  • → Sardinian: marranu
• → Chinese: 穆哈蘭姆月 / 穆哈兰姆月 (Mùhālánmǔyuè)
• → Japanese: マフラム (mafuramu)

From الْمُحَرَّم (al-muḥarram, “the forbidden”), from الشَّهْر الْمُحَرَّم (aš-šahr al-muḥarram), literally "the forbidden month", for being one of the four months in which Arabs forbade fighting, a tradition continued in Islam. The month is of special importance for Shia Muslims, for being the month in which the Battle of Karbala occurred.

مُحَرَّم • (muḥarram) m

1. Muharram, the first of the twelve months of the Muslim lunar calendar, each beginning on a new moon.

   Synonym: اَلْمُحَرَّم (al-muḥarram)

• مُحَرَّم الْحَرَام (muḥarram al-ḥarām)

• Gulf Arabic: محرم (muharram)
• → Persian: محرم (moharram)
• → Chagatai: محرم
  • → Uzbek: muharram

• كَانُون الثَّانِي (kānūn aṯ-ṯānī)
• يَنَايِر (yanāyir)
• صَفَر (ṣafar)

محرم

1. Jawi spelling of Muharam.‎‎

Borrowed from Arabic مَحْرَم (maḥram).

محرم • (mahram)

1. (Islam) mahram; close family member who cannot be married
2. (by extension) confidant, intimate friend

   Synonyms: همدم (hamdam), دمساز (damsâz)

Borrowed from Arabic مُحَرَّم (muḥarram).

محرم • (moharram)

1. (Islam) Moharram (Islamic month)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “محرم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “محرم”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press