macramè

See also: macrame and macramé

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مقرمه (makrame), from Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”), from قَرَمَ (qarama, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Semitic *q-r-m.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.kraˈmɛ/*
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: ma‧cra‧mè

Noun

macramè m (invariable)

  1. macramé

References

  1. ^ “macramè”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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