mahr

See also: Mahr

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَهْر (mahr) .

Noun

mahr (countable and uncountable, plural mahrs)

1. (Islam) A mandatory gift from the groom (or his family) to the bride (or her family) upon marriage in Islamic cultures.

   Antonym: dowry (from bride's family to groom's family)

   Hypernyms: bride price, reverse dowry, dower < marriage-portion < price, fee, gift

   Coordinate terms: dower (likewise an assurance, but receivable at death rather than upon marriage); lobola (Bantu)

Translations

a mandatory gift from the groom to the bride upon marriage in Islamic cultures

• Arabic: مَهْر m (mahr), صَدَاق m (ṣadāq)
• Bashkir: мәһәр (məhər)
• Bengali: মহর (bn) (mohor)
• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: mahari

• French: mahr (fr) m
• German: Brautgabe f
• Hindi: महर (hi) m (mahar)
• Indonesian: maskawin (id), mahar (id)
• Japanese: マフル (mafuru)
• Malay: mas kahwin (ms), mahar (ms)
• Pashto: مهر m (mahr)
• Persian: مهر (fa) (mahr), مهریه (fa) (mahriye)
• Russian: махр (ru) m (maxr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мехр m

  Latin: mehr m

• Spanish: acidaque (es) m, mahr m
• Swahili: mahari (sw)
• Swedish: mahr (sv) c
• Tajik: маҳр (mahr)
• Tatar: мәһәр (tt) (mähär)
• Turkish: mehir (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: مهر (mehr)

• Urdu: مہر m (mahr)
• Uzbek: mahr (uz)

Anagrams

• Hmar, harm