macramé

See also: macrame and macramè

English edit

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macramé

The emblem of Tiberias, Israel made from macramé.

Macramé bracelets from Tobatí, Paraguay.

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

Noun edit

macramé (countable and uncountable, plural macramés)

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.

Translations edit

textile

Basque: makrame
Bulgarian: макраме n (makrame)
Dutch: macramé (nl) n
Esperanto: makrameo, makramo
Finnish: makramee (fi)
French: macramé (fr) m
German: Makramee (de) n
Hebrew: מַקְרָמֶה (he) m (makrame)
Hungarian: makramé (hu)
Irish: macraime m
Italian: macramè (it) m
Kazakh: макраме (makrame)
Persian: مکرمه (makrame)
Polish: makrama f
Portuguese: macramé (pt) m
Russian: макраме́ (ru) n (makramɛ́)
Spanish: macramé (es) m
Swedish: makramé (sv) c
Turkish: makreme (tr)
Ukrainian: макраме n (makrame)

Verb edit

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

To create textiles using the macramé technique.

References edit

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

French edit

Etymology edit

From 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.