macramé

See also: macrame and macramè

English
The emblem of Tiberias, Israel made from macramé.
Macramé bracelets from Tobatí, Paraguay.

Etymology

1865, borrowed from French macramé, from Italian macramè, from Turkish makreme, 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]

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

Noun

macramé (countable and uncountable, plural macramés)

  1. A form of decorative textile made by knotting and weaving.

Translations

Verb

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.

References
  1. "macramé." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2008.
  2. “macramé”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

French

Etymology

Italian macramè, from Turkish makreme, from Arabic مِقْرَمَة‎ (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم‎ (miqram, “bedspread”), from قَرَمَ‎ (qarama, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Semitic *q-r-m.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ma.kʁa.me/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

macramé m (plural macramés)

  1. macramé

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

From French macramé.

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

Noun

macramé m (plural macramés)

  1. macramé

Further reading
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