bride

See also: Bride, bridé, bríde, and Bríde

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

Etymology 1

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), French bru (“daughter-in-law”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

1. A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
   • Bible, Revelation xxi. 9

     I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

   • (Can we date this quote by George Lyttelton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Has by his own experience tried / How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.

   Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom

2. (obsolete, figurative) An object ardently loved.

Derived terms

• always a bridesmaid, never a bride
• bridal
• bride gift
• bridegroom
• bridely
• Bride of the Red Sea
• Bride of the Sea
• bride price
• bridesmaid
• bride-to-be
• bride wealth
• bridezilla
• December bride
• off like a bride's nightie
• war bride
• would-be bride

 

Translations

woman in the context of her own wedding

• Afrikaans: bruid
• Albanian: nuse (sq) f
• Arabic: عَرُوس f (ʕarūs)

  Moroccan Arabic: عْروسة f (ʿrusa)

• Armenian: հարս (hy) (hars), հարսնացու (hy) (harsnacʻu)
• Assamese: কইনা (koina)
• Azerbaijani: gəlin (az)
• Bashkir: кәләш (kələş)
• Belarusian: няве́ста f (njavjésta), малада́я f (maladája)
• Bengali: নববধূ (nobbodhu)
• Bulgarian: бу́лка (bg) f (búlka), младоже́нка f (mladožénka), годени́ца (bg) f (godeníca), неве́ста (bg) f (nevésta)
• Burmese: သတို့သမီး (my) (sa.tui.sa.mi:)
• Catalan: núvia (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵙⵍⵉⵜ (tislit)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新娘 (san¹ noeng^4-2)

  Gan: 新娘子 (xin¹ nyiong⁴ zi), 新娘 (xin¹ nyiong⁴)

  Hakka: 新娘 (sîn-ngiòng)

  Jin: 新娘子 (xing¹ nion¹ zeh)

  Mandarin: 新娘 (zh) (xīnniáng), 新婦／新妇 (zh) (xīnfù), 新妇 (zh) (xīnfù), 新娘子 (zh) (xīnniángzi), 新媳婦兒／新媳妇儿, 新媳妇儿 (xīnxífur) (colloquial)

  Min Nan: 新娘 (sin-niû)

  Xiang: 新娘子 (xin¹ nyian² zr)

• Chukchi: ӈэвъэнлыӄыл (ṇėvʺėnlyqyl)
• Czech: nevěsta (cs) f
• Danish: brud (da) c
• Dutch: bruid (nl) f
• Esperanto: novedzino
• Estonian: pruut
• Faroese: brúður f
• Finnish: morsian (fi)
• French: jeune mariée (fr) f, future mariée f, mariée (fr) f, future épouse f, épouse (fr) f
• Gagauz: gelin
• Galician: noiva f, alarosa f
• Georgian: დედოფალი (dedopali), პატარძალი (ṗaṭarʒali)
• German: Braut (de) f

  Alemannic German: Bruut f, Gspuusi n

• Greek: νύφη (el) f (nýfi)

  Ancient: νύμφη f (númphē)

• Gujarati: નવવધૂ f (navavdhū)
• Hebrew: כַּלָּה (he) f (kalá)
• Hindi: दुलहन (hi) f (dulhan), नवोढा f (navoḍhā), नववधू f (navavdhū), वधू (hi) f (vadhū)
• Hungarian: menyasszony (hu), ara (hu)
• Icelandic: brúður (is) f
• Ido: (♂♀) fiancito (io), (♂) fiancitulo (io), (♀) fiancitino (io)
• Indonesian: pengantin (id), pengantin perempuan
• Irish: brídeach f
• Italian: fidanzata (it), sposa (it) f
• Japanese: 花嫁 (ja) (hanayome), 新婦 (ja) (shinpu), 嫁 (ja) (yome)
• Kazakh: қалыңдық (kk) (qalyñdyq)
• Khmer: កូនក្រមុំ (koun krɑmum)
• Korean: 신부 (ko) (sinbu) (新婦 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:bûk (ku) f

  Laki: بەوی (bewî)

  Sorani: بووک (bûk)

  Southern Kurdish: وەۊ (weẅ)

• Kyrgyz: колукту (koluktu)
• Lao: ເຈົ້າສາວ (chao sāo)
• Latvian: līgava f
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• Lithuanian: nuotaka f
• Low German: Bruud f
• Macedonian: невеста f (nevesta)
• Malay: pengantin perempuan
• Maltese: għarusa f
• Maori: wahine mārena
• Megleno-Romanian: niveastă f
• Middle English: bryd
• Mongolian: бэр (mn) (ber)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: mathiée f (Jersey), mathié f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brud (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: brud f, brur f

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: невѣста f (nevěsta)

• Old English: brȳd f
• Old High German: brūt f
• Old Norse: brúðr f
• Old Saxon: brūd f
• Pashto: جنجۍ (ps) f (ǰanǰə́y)
• Persian: عروس (fa) ('arus), بیوگ (fa) (bayug)
• Polish: panna młoda (pl) f, narzeczona (pl) f, niewiasta (pl) f (dated or regional)
• Portuguese: noiva (pt) f
• Romanian: nevastă (ro) f, mireasă (ro) f
• Russian: неве́ста (ru) f (nevésta), новобра́чная (ru) f (novobráčnaja), молода́я (ru) f (molodája)
• Scottish Gaelic: bean na bainnse f, bean nuadh-phòsda f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нѐвеста f, мла̑да f

  Roman: nèvesta (sh) f, mlȃda (sh) f

• Slovak: nevesta (sk) f
• Slovene: nevesta (sl) f
• Spanish: novia (es) f
• Swahili: biarusi, biharusi
• Swedish: brud (sv) c
• Tajik: арус (tg) (arus)
• Talysh:

  Asalemi: ویو (vayu)

• Tatar: кәләш (tt) (käläş)
• Telugu: వధువు (te) (vadhuvu), పెళ్ళి కూతురు (peḷḷi kūturu)
• Thai: เจ้าสาว (th) (jâo-sǎao)
• Tibetan: མནའ་མ (mna' ma)
• Turkish: gelin (tr)
• Turkmen: gelin, gelneje
• Ukrainian: наре́чена f (naréčena), молода́ f (molodá), неві́ста f (nevísta), зару́чена f (zarúčena)
• Urdu: دلہن f (dulhan), نذوڈھا f (navōḍhā)
• Uyghur: كېلىن (këlin)
• Uzbek: kelin (uz)
• Vietnamese: cô dâu (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) gam (vo), (♂) higam (vo), (♀) jigam (vo)
• Walloon: marieye (wa) f
• Welsh: priodferch (cy) f, priodferched f pl
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: כּלה f (kale)
• Zhuang: bawxmoq

See also

• husband-to-be
• wife-to-be

Verb

1. (obsolete) to make a bride of

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

1. an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework

Anagrams

• bider, birde, rebid

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French

Etymology

From Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German brīdel (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German brīdil (“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil (“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-Germanic *brigdilaz (“bridle”). Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁid/

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• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bride f (plural brides)

1. (equestrianism) bridle
2. strap
3. loop (of a button); bride (of lace)
4. (medicine) adhesion
5. flange

Verb

bride

1. inflection of brider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “bride”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

bride f

1. plural of brida

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• brid, bryd, bryde, brude

Etymology

Inherited from Old English brȳd, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbriːd/

Noun

bride (plural brides or bruden)

1. a bride; a woman recently married or to be married
2. (theology) Christendom as God's partner
3. (rare) any young woman in a relationship
4. (rare) a groom; a man recently married or to be married

Related terms

• bridale
• bridegome

 

Descendants

• English: bride
• Scots: bride
• Yola: breede

References

• “brīd(e (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾide/ [ˈbɾi.ð̞e]

Verb

bride

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bridar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bridar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of bridar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bridar.