seraglio

Etymology
From, from , from a late form of , from. The Italian word was used (because of phonetic similarity) to translate Turkish. Compare,.

Noun

 * 1) A palace of a sultan.
 * 2) The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
 * 3)  A profligate or decadent residence of a rich person.
 * 4) The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.
 * 5) A brothel or place of debauchery.
 * 6) An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.
 * 1) A brothel or place of debauchery.
 * 2) An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, харем
 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto: serajlo
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Ottoman Turkish: سرای
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: са̀рај
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: serrallo
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: