the women or wives belonging to a rich man, especially in some Muslim societies in the past 哈来姆（尤指旧时某些穆斯林社会中富人的女眷） the separate part of a traditional Muslim house where the women live （穆斯林传统女眷居住的）内室，妇女住房 - (specialist)
a group of female animals that share the same male for producing young 眷群（和同一雄性动物交配的一群雌性动物）
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in sense (2)): from Arabic ḥaram, ḥarīm, literally ‘prohibited, prohibited place’ (hence ‘sanctuary, women's quarters, women’), from ḥarama ‘be prohibited’.