haraam, adjective

/haˈrɑːm//həˈrɑːm/
Forms:
Also haram.
Origin:
ArabicShow more Arabic haram, harīm.
Unlawful according to Muslim law. Also figurative.
1979 S. Afr. Panorama Dec. 25Abattoir practice for Muslims is regulated in South Africa by the Muslim Butchers’ Association...Special slaughtering methods apply to cattle and chickens and halaal (lawful) and haraam (unlawful) carcasses may not make contact during storage and loading.
1980 A. Dangor in M. Mutloatse Forced Landing 168With a sudden movement Samad opened the bottle of wine and poured its contents over Leiman...‘No! No!’ Leiman screamed, ‘the wine is haram’.
1984 E. Prov. Herald 18 June 1More than 3000 Moslems yesterday agreed to a resolution declaring participation and association with the Government’s ‘new dispensation’ as ‘haraam’ (unlawful by religious law).
1985 A. Davids in Papers, Symposium on Ethnomusicology, 1984 (I.L.A.M.) 37There still prevails a general misconception that music is Haraam or forbidden in Islam.
1987 Frontline May 6The Mandela family..the hallmark of the liberation struggle. What they think, say, do, is kosher. Any view to the contrary is haraam.
1987 G. Davis in Weekly Mail 17 July 5It is haraam — forbidden — for a Muslim to serve in the South African Defence Force or the South West African Territorial Force...‘No Muslim is allowed to participate in the apartheid army...It is haraam.’
Unlawful according to Muslim law. Also figurative.
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