Seraglio

Etymology
From seraglio:, from  *undefined:, from a late form of  serare:, from sera:. The Italian word was used (because of phonetic similarity) to translate Persian سرای:. Compare serai:, serail:.

Pronunciation
An Italian-type pronunciation would be something like "se-ra-lyo", but in a poem by Rudyard Kipling the meter shows a 4-syllable phonetic pronunciation "se-rag-li-o".

Noun

 * 1) The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
 * At these words he started up, and beheld—not his Sophia—no, nor a Circassian maid richly and elegantly attired for the grand Signior's seraglio.
 * 1) The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in a Turkish Muslim household.
 * 2) A brothel or place of debauchery.
 * 3) An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.
 * 1) An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.

Translations

 * Hungarian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сарај
 * Roman: saraj


 * Turkish:

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