daughter-in-law

English

Etymology

From Middle English douȝter in lawe; equivalent to daughter +‎ in +‎ law.

Noun

daughter-in-law (plural daughters-in-law)

1. The wife of one's child.

Related terms

• brother-in-law
• father-in-law
• mother-in-law
• sister-in-law
• son-in-law

Translations

wife of one's child

• Albanian: nuse (sq) f
• Arabic: زَوْجَة اَلاِبْن f (zawjat al-ibn)
• Armenian: հարս (hy) (hars)
• Aromanian: norã f, nor (roa-rup)
• Assamese: বোৱাৰী (büari)
• Asturian: nuera (ast) f, ñuera (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: gəlin (az)
• Bactrian: ασνωυο (asnōuo)
• Bashkir: килен (kilen)
• Belarusian: няве́стка f (njavjéstka)
• Breton: merc'h-kaer (br) f, merc'heg f
• Bulgarian: снаха́ (bg) f (snahá)
• Burmese: ချွေးမ (my) (hkywe:ma.)
• Catalan: nora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新婦／新妇 (yue), 新妇 (san¹ pou⁵, sam¹ pou⁵), 媳婦／媳妇 (sik¹ fu⁵), 媳妇 (sik¹ fu⁵) (formal)

  Hakka: 心臼 (sîm-khiû)

  Mandarin: 媳婦／媳妇 (zh), 媳妇 (zh) (xífù), 兒媳／儿媳 (zh) (érxí), 儿媳 (zh) (érxí), 兒媳婦／儿媳妇, 儿媳妇 (érxífù)

  Min Nan: 新婦／新妇 (zh-min-nan), 新妇 (sin-pū, sin-pǔ, sim-pū), 囝新婦／囝新妇, 囝新妇 (kiáⁿ-sin-pū, káⁿ-sin-pǔ, kiáⁿ-sim-pū)

• Cornish: gohydh f
• Czech: snacha (cs) f
• Danish: svigerdatter (da) c
• Dutch: schoondochter (nl) f
• Erzya: урьва (uŕva)
• Esperanto: bofilino
• Estonian: minia (et)
• Ewe: lɔ̃xoyɔvi
• Faroese: verdóttir f
• Finnish: miniä (fi)
• French: bru (fr) f, belle-fille (fr) f
• Friulian: brût, nore f
• Galician: nora (gl) f
• Georgian: რძალი (rʒali)
• German: Schwiegertochter (de) f, Schnur (de) f (dialectal, otherwise obsolete))
• Greek: νύφη (el) f (nýfi), κόρη (el) f (kóri)

  Ancient: νύμφη f (númphē)

• Hebrew: כַּלָּה (he) f (kala)
• Hungarian: meny (hu)
• Hunsrik: Schwiegherdochter f
• Icelandic: tengdadóttir (is) f
• Ido: bofiliino (io)
• Irish: iníon-i-ndlí f, banchliamhain m
• Italian: nuora (it) f
• Japanese: 嫁 (ja) (よめ, yome)
• Kabuverdianu: jénra
• Karakalpak: kelin
• Korean: 며느리 (ko) (myeoneuri)
• Latin: nurus f
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• Lithuanian: marti (lt) f
• Macedonian: сна́а f (snáa)
• Malay: menantu perempuan, menantu
• Manx: 'neen 'sy leigh f, ben chleuin f
• Maori: hunaonga, hunōnga
• Marathi: सून f (sūn)
• Mongolian: бэр (mn) (ber)
• Navajo: hazháʼáád
• Neapolitan: nòra f
• Norman: belle-fil'ye f
• Northern Sami: mannji
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svigerdatter (no) m or f, sønnekone m or f

  Nynorsk: svigerdotter f, sonekone f, verdotter f

• Novial:
• Occitan: nòra (oc) f
• Old Assamese: বহাৰী (boharī)
• Old Church Slavonic: снъха (snŭxa), невѣста f (nevěsta)
• Old English: snoru f
• Persian: سنه (fa) (sonoh), سنهار (sonhâr)
• Polish: synowa (pl) f, snecha (pl) f (dated)
• Portuguese: nora (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਨੂੰਹ f (nū̃h)
• Romanian: noră (ro) f
• Russian: неве́стка (ru) f (nevéstka) (usually for a mother-in-law), сноха́ (ru) f (snoxá) (for a father-in-law, also)
• Sardinian: nura f
• Scottish Gaelic: bean-mhic f, nighean-chèile f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: снаха f, снаја f

  Roman: snaha (sh) f, snaja (sh) f

• Sicilian: nora (scn) f
• Skolt Sami: mââʹnnj
• Slovak: nevesta (sk) f
• Slovene: snaha (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pśichodna źowka f, syna žeńska f, šwigerźowka f, synowa žeńska f

• Spanish: nuera (es) f
• Swedish: svärdotter (sv) c, sonhustru (sv) c
• Tagalog: babaeng manugang
• Taos: phȉwéna, sə̀oyi’ína
• Telugu: కోడలు (te) (kōḍalu)
• Thai: ลูกสะไภ้ (loog-sa-pai)
• Turkish: gelin (tr)
• Ukrainian: неві́стка f (nevístka)
• Vietnamese: con dâu, dâu (vi)
• Volapük: lüdaut (vo)
• Welsh: merch-yng-nghyfraith f, gwaudd f, merched yng nghyfraith f pl
• Yiddish: שנור f (shnur)