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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈhʊəɹi/Part of speech nounSorted hioruStarts with HEnds with I0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise

Word origin

From French houri, from Persian حوری (hurî), from Arabic حُورِيّ (ḥūriyy) and Arabic حُورِيَّة (ḥūriyya), adjective and feminine singulative of حُور (ḥūr) from Classical Arabic حُورٌ عِينٌ (ḥūrun ʕīnun, “fair maidens, black-eyed ones”). See أَحْوَر m (ʔaḥwar), حَوْرَاء f (ḥawrāʔ) for the base adjective.

Used in a sentence

  • They went through the courtyard, past a naked copper houri tilting a water-jar that merely dripped[.]
  • What if in paradise there are no houris waiting? / What if but all you get are grapes, succulent grapes? / What if it's all just a mistake in the translation?
  • I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio; gazelle-eyes, houri forms and all!

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