1) In Islam, a forbidden activity, food, drink, or thought. Examples of haram things are: eating pork, drinking alcohol, having sex at daytime during Ramadan, extramarital sex, neglect of prayer and fasting, and blasphemy.
2) In the
slang of Arabic and languages influenced by Arabic, anything evil or sinful. Forms compounds
like Arabic
ibn haram 'bastard' (lit. 'son of sin'), and Malay anak haram (also meaning 'bastard').