Houri

/ˈhʊəɹi/

Synonyms for "houri" (43 found)

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Closest matches (9)

Noun(1 words)
arabic loanword

Strong matches (13)

Noun(3 words)
celestial maidenexotic tropeheavenly maiden

Related words (21)

Noun(5 words)
literary stereotypenymphorientalist tropeparadise maidenquranic loanword

Related word relations

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More general

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adult femalelinguistic usageliterary tropemythical beingwoman

More specific

6 entries
erotic stereotypeexotic tropeheavenly maideninterpretive translationliteral translationparadise maiden

Collocations

6 entries
Islamic paradiseQur'anic descriptionexotic tropeheavenly maidenshouri tropeparadise inhabitants

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

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Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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They went through the courtyard, past a naked copper houri tilting a water-jar that merely dripped[.]

Source: wiktionary

We cannot go into the technical details of his methodology but it allows Luxenberg, to the probable horror of all Muslim males dreaming of sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter, to conjure away the wide-eyed houris promised to the faithful in suras XLIV.54; LII.20, LV.72, and LVI.22. Luxenberg's new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris.

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The repetition of material about the houri suggests that the popularization of that figure occurred as early as the ninth century and continued well into the twelfth century. By then, the houri had become a kind of metonymy for the Garden, as well as an accepted object. A new role of the houri as the superlative being of the Garden emerged through the use of traditions, and most of all the structure of the text. Al-Qadi's text provides an excellent example of the importance of the houri.

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What if in paradise there are no houris waiting? / What if but all you get are grapes, succulent grapes? / What if it's all just a mistake in the translation?

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