macramé

1865, borrowed from French macramé, from Italian macramè, from Ottoman Turkish مقرمه (makrame), 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]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmækɹəˌmeɪ/, /məˈkɹɑːmi/, /məˈkɹɑːmeɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmi, -ɑːmeɪ

macramé (countable and uncountable, plural macramés)

1. A form of decorative textile made by knotting and weaving.
   • 2020 October 19, Thunderbox Entertainment, Tsuro - The Game of The Path:

     Robby is contemplating macramé.

macramé (third-person singular simple present macramés, present participle macraméing, simple past and past participle macraméed or macraméd)

1. To create textiles using the macramé technique.

Borrowed from Italian macramè, 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.

• IPA^(key): /ma.kʁa.me/

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macramé m (plural macramés)

1. macramé

• “macramé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French macramé.

• IPA^(key): /makɾaˈme/ [ma.kɾaˈme]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ma‧cra‧mé

macramé m (plural macramés)

1. macramé

• “macramé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024