houri
英 ['hʊərɪ]
美['hʊri]
- n. 天堂女神；迷人的美女；富有魅力的美女
英英释义
- 1. a voluptuously beautiful young woman
- 2. (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise
英文词源
- houri (n.)
- "nymph of Muslim paradise," 1737, from French houri (1650s), from Persian huri "nymph in Paradise," from Arabic haura "to be beautifully dark-eyed," like a gazelle + -i, Persian formative element denoting the singular.
词态变化
复数: houris;