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Webster 1913 Edition

Houri

Hou′ri

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Houris

(#)

.

[Per.

hūrī

,

hūrā

,

hūr

; akin to Ar.

hūr

, pl. of

ahwar

beautiful-eyed, black-eyed.]

A nymph of paradise; – so called by the Muslims.

Webster 1828 Edition

Houri

HOU'RI

,

Noun.

Among Mohammedans, a nymph of paradise.

Definition 2024

houri

houri

English

Noun

houri ‎(plural houris)

(Islam) A nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.
Any voluptuous, beautiful woman.
- 1850, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
  I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio, gazelle eyes, houri- forms and all!

Translations

(Islam) a nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin

Arabic: حُورِيَّة f ‎(ḥūriyya)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 天女 (zh) ‎(tiānnǚ), 天仙 (zh) ‎(tiānxiān)
French: houri (fr) f
German: Huri (de) f
Japanese: フーリー ‎(fūrī), 天女 ‎(てんにょ, tennyo)

Persian: حوری (fa) ‎(huri)
Russian: гу́рия (ru) f ‎(gúrija)
Rusyn: гу́рія f ‎(húrija)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: хурија f

Roman: hurija (sh) f
Turkish: huri (tr)

Finnish

Verb

houri

Third-person singular indicative past form of houria.
Indicative present connegative form of houria.
Second-person singular imperative present form of houria.
Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of houria.

Anagrams

roihu, rouhi