English[edit]
best man (plural best men)
- The primary attendant to the groom in a wedding ceremony.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see best, man.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
primary attendant to the groom
- Afrikaans: strooijonker
- Asturian: padrín (ast) m
- Bulgarian: кум (bg) m (kum)
- Catalan: padrí (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 男儐相／男傧相 (zh) (nánbīnxiāng)
- Czech: družba (cs) m, ženichův svědek m, svědek (cs) m
- Danish: forlover c
- Dutch: getuige voor de bruidegom
- Esperanto: fianĉamiko
- Finnish: bestman (fi), puhemies (fi)
- French: témoin (fr) m, garçon d’honneur (fr) m
- Georgian: მეჯვარე (meǯvare)
- German: Trauzeuge (de) m
- Greek: κουμπάρος (el) m (koumpáros)
- Hungarian: vőfély (hu), násznagy (hu)
- Icelandic: svaramaður m
- Irish: vaidhtéir m
- Italian: testimone (it), testimone di nozze m
- Japanese: ベストマン (besutoman), 介添人 (かいぞえにん, kaizoenin)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: birazava (ku) m
- Macedonian: кум (mk) m (kum), старосват m (starosvat), девер m (dever), шафер m (šafer) (regional)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forlover m
- Nynorsk: forlovar m
- Polish: drużba (pl) m
- Portuguese: padrinho (pt) m
- Romanian: cavaler de onoare (ro) m
- Russian: ша́фер (ru) m (šáfer), дру́жка (ru) m or f (drúžka), свиде́тель (ru) m (svidételʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: fear-comhailteachd m, fleasgach m, fleasgach fear-bainnse m, gille-comhailteachd m
- Serbo-Croatian: девер m, dever (sh) m
- Spanish: padrino (es) m
- Sundanese: pagarbagus
- Tagalog: abay na lalaki
- Thai: เพื่อนเจ้าบ่าว
- Turkish: sağdıç (tr)
- Ukrainian: свідок m (svidok) (на весіллі), дружба (uk) f (družba)
- Zazaki: doçman
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