dowry
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dowry (plural dowries)
- Property or payment given by one spouse or his/her family to the other spouse or her/his family at time of marriage. (In some cultures, the dowry is given from wife to husband, in others vice versa.)
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property or payment given at time of marriage
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- Kurdish: next (ku) m, qelen (ku) m
- Latin: dos (la) f
- Luxembourgish: Dott (lb) f
- Macedonian: мираз (mk) (míraz) m, чеиз (mk) (čéiz) m, приќе (mk) (príḱe) n
- Malay: mahar (ms), mas kahwin (ms)
- Polish: posag (pl) m, wiano (pl) n
- Portuguese: dote (pt) m
- Romanian: zestre (ro)
- Russian: приданое (ru) (pridánoje) n
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прћија (sh) m, женинство (sh) n, мираз (sh) m
- Roman: prćija (sh) m, ženinstvo (sh) n, miraz (sh) m
- Sotho: lobola (st)
- Spanish: dote (es) m and f
- Swedish: hemgift (sv) c
- Telugu: కట్నం (te) (kaTnam)
- Turkish: çeyiz (tr), başlık (tr), drahoma (tr) (for Jews and Christians in Turkey)
- Urdu: جہیز (ur) (jahez) m
- Vietnamese: của hồi môn (vi)
- Volapük: jigamagivot (vo)
- Welsh: agweddi (cy)
- Zulu: ilobolo (zu) 5/6
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