English Dictionary

zenana

IPA（発音記号）

/zəˈnɑːnə/

名詞

A harem on the Indian subcontinent; a part of the house reserved for high-caste women; a system of segregating women into harems.

日本語の意味

インド亜大陸におけるハーレム、つまり女性専用の住居または区域 / 高カーストの女性が隔離されて生活するための家屋の一部を指す

The historian uncovered diaries from the zenana that revealed the private lives of its inhabitants.

歴史家はそのハーレムの日記を発見し、住人たちの私生活が明らかになった。

意味（1）

A harem on the Indian subcontinent; a part of the house reserved for high-caste women; a system of segregating women into harems.

Depend upon it, Solomon would never have built altars to Ashtaroth and all those ladies with queer names, if there had not been trouble of some kind in his zenana, and nowhere else.

意味（2）

An effeminate or crossdressing male in northern India or Pakistan. (Also spelled zanána.)

For some years past the zanánas have celebrated the Holi as a carnival. They assume female names, by which they are called in their own circle. Most of them are beardless youth; those who have beards shave them. Náz nakhra (flirtation) becomes their second nature.

zenanas （ plural ）