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Definitions: Houri |
HouriNoun1. A voluptuously beautiful young woman. 2. (in Muslim belief) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "houri" was first used: 1737. (references) |
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Satire | HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Houri (pl. Houris). The large blackeyed damsels of Paradise, possessed of perpetual youth and beauty, whose virginity is renewable at pleasure. Every believer will have seventy-two of these houris in Paradise, and his intercourse with them will be fruitful or otherwise, according to his wish. If an offspring is desired, it will grow to full estate in an hour. (Persian, huri; Arabic, huriya, nymphs of paradise. Compare ahivar, black-eyed.) (The Koran.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Many Muslims and non-Muslims alike believe that terrorists who commit murder and suicide in the name of Islam do so in order to gain instant admission to heaven, where they will enjoy the pleasures of the houris, although many Muslim scholars consider the passages in the Qur'an detailing the existence of houris in heaven as allegorical, not literal.
This belief in an afterlife replete with houris is based upon a hadith:
"collected by Imam at-Tirmidhi in "Sunan" (Volume IV, Chapters on "The Features of Heaven as described by the Messenger of Allah", Chapter 21: "About the Smallest Reward for the People of Heaven", hadith 2687) and also quoted by Ibn Kathir in his Tafsir (Koranic Commentary) of Surah Rhman (55), ayah (verse) 72:
"It was mentioned by Daraj Ibn Abi Hatim, that Abu al-Haytham ’Adullah Ibn Wahb narrated from Abu Sa'id al-Khudhri, who heard the Prophet Muhammad (Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) saying, 'The smallest reward for the people of Heaven is an abode where there are eighty thousand servants and seventy two wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine and ruby, as wide as the distance from al-Jabiyyah to San'a."1
Houris also appear in Ba'hai literature, and is the word given for engravings of women in ancient stonework such as the temples at Angkor Wat.
The etymology of the word is that it is derived from the word hawira, to be black-eyed, like a gazelle.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Houri."
Synonym: HouriSynonym: nymph (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Houri |
| English words defined with "houri": Houris. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "houri": HOURI ♦ Salsabil. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Houri" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (houri). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Houri. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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houri | 9 |
david franck houri oscane | 4 |
alice houri | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "houri"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حورية (nymph, pixy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hoeri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | hurio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | huri, orientalische schönheit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ούρι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ourihay hurie. (various references) huri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | hawira. (various references) |
| Persian | 800-Modern | huri. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "houri": houris. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "houri" (pronounced 'Hou"ri'): Alizari, Aracari, Beriberi, Bouri, Cabbiri, Cachiri, Certiorari, Crypturi, Flos-ferri, Louri, Ouakari, sari, uakari, Vari. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: hour. | |
-2 letters: our, rho. | |
-3 letters: hi, ho, oh, or, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: houris. | |
+2 letters: bohrium, haviour, humidor, nourish, rhodium, roguish, sourish, thorium, urolith. | |
+3 letters: bihourly, bohriums, bothrium, broguish, chromium, cothurni, couthier, doughier, euphoria, euphoric, flourish, haviours, humidors, humoring, humorist, ichorous, mouchoir, mouthier, outright, outwhirl, pouchier, rhizopus, rhodiums, roughing, roughish, roundish, thiourea, thoriums, touchier, unheroic, unholier, uroliths, urushiol. | |
+4 letters: authorial, authoring, authorise, authority, authorize, behaviour, birdhouse, bothriums, bronchium, chorusing, chromiums, courtship, crouching, doughtier, drouthier, echiuroid, echovirus, euphorbia, euphorias, euthyroid, eutrophic, firehouse, grouchier, grouchily, grouching, harmonium, haustoria, hierodule, hilarious, honouring, humorists, humouring, hydronium, mouchoirs, neighbour, nourished, nourisher, nourishes, onrushing, ophiuroid, outwhirls, rehousing, rhizobium, righteous, roguishly, scirrhous, shrouding, slouchier, sloughier, thioureas, trochilus, turophile, tutorship, unhorsing, urushiols. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 75 72 69 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- ..- .-. .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o u r i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 0075 0072 0069 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4281878475 |
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