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‖ ihram|ɪˈrɑːm, iːxˈrɑːm| Also 8 hir(r)awem. [Arab. iḥrām (f. ḥarama to forbid: cf. harem), a kind of dress used by the Arabs in Spain and Africa; ‘sacred state’ (Freytag).] 1. The dress worn by Muslim pilgrims, consisting of two pieces of white cotton, the one girded round the waist, and the other thrown over the left shoulder.
1704J. Pitts Acc. Mohometans vii. 80 They take off all their cloaths, covering themselves with two Hirrawems, or large white Cotton Wrappers. 1811tr. Niebuhr's Trav. Arabia xii. in Pinkerton Voy. X. 20 Pilgrims, in their first journey to Mecca, are obliged to assume the Ihhram immediately after passing Cape Wardan. 1819T. Hope Anastasius (1820) II. iv. 68 An ihram in rags, an old mat torn to pieces. 1862Lond. Rev. 30 Aug. 187 The time had..arrived for changing our usual habiliments for the ‘ihrám’ or pilgrim-costume of two towels, and for taking the various interdictory vows involved in its assumption. 2. The state in which a pilgrim is held to be while he wears this distinctive garb, during which time many acts of ordinary life are held unlawful.
1704J. Pitts Acc. Mahometans 79 On this side Mecca, where all the Hagges..do enter into Hirawem, or Ihram. Ibid. 95 The eighth Day after the said two months, they all enter into Hirrawem again. |