macramé
English
Etymology
1865, borrowed from French macramé, from Italian macramè, from Turkish makreme, from Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”),[1] from قَرَمَ (qarama, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Semitic *q-r-m.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmækɹəˌmeɪ/, /məˈkɹɑːmi/, /məˈkɹɑːmeɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːmi, -ɑːmeɪ
Noun
macramé (countable and uncountable, plural macramés)
- A form of decorative textile made by knotting and weaving.
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Translations
textile
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Verb
macramé (third-person singular simple present macramés, present participle macraméing, simple past and past participle macraméed or macraméd)
- To create textiles using the macramé technique.
References
- "macramé." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2008.
- “macramé”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
French
Etymology
From Italian macramè, from Turkish makreme, from Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”), from قَرَمَ (qarama, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Semitic *q-r-m.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.kʁa.me/
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Further reading
- “macramé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /makɾaˈme/ [ma.kɾaˈme]
- Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: ma‧cra‧mé
Further reading
- “macramé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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