English Explanatory Dictionary

Haram al-Sharif

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The Temple Mount; the Noble Sanctuary.

Word forms

Haram al-Sharif

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْحَرَم الشَّرِيف (al-ḥaram aš-šarīf, “the noble sanctuary”), a sobriquet also used for the other two holiest sites in Islam in Mecca and Medina.

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