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haramize

haramize verb: to make (something) haram.

Verb

haramize (third-person singular simple present haramizes, present participle haramizing, simple past and past participle haramized)

  1. (rare, transitive) To make (something) haram.
    • had to enter the “haramized” or taboo state1999, Robert Chazan, כי ברוך הוא: Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Judaic Studies in Honor of Baruch Levine, page 321
    • Many Muslim groups do not practice haramized lifestyles.2005, Signe Howell, The Ethnography of Moralities

Examples of haramize in a sentence

  • […] like the “haramized” Muslim pilgrims about to begin the hajj (see II/6), and was thus removed from ordinary use or circulation, a point over which Jesus argued with the Pharisees (Mark 7:11)2009, F. E. Peters, The Monotheists, page 159:
  • […] the effects of the massive Islamization on the increasingly ‘haramized’ (Peletz 2011: 137) non-Muslim population in Malaysia should be studied as well.2014, Dominik Mueller, Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia: The Pop-Islamist Reinvention of PAS:

Antonyms of haramize

Forms of haramize

third-person singular presentharamizes
present participleharamizing
past participleharamized
pastharamized

Origin of haramize

From haram + -ize.

Questions about haramize

What does haramize mean?
Haramize means to make (something) haram.
How do you use haramize in a sentence?
[…] like the “haramized” Muslim pilgrims about to begin the hajj (see II/6), and was thus removed from ordinary use or circulation, a point over which Jesus argued with the Pharisees (Mark 7:11)
What part of speech is haramize?
Haramize is a verb.
What is the past tense of haramize?
The past tense of haramize is haramized.

Words near haramize in the dictionary

  1. haramiyid
  2. haramiyidan
  3. haramiyidans
  4. haramiyids
  5. haramization
  6. haramize
  7. haramized
  8. haramizes
  9. haramizing
  10. haramness
  11. harams

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