mahr

See also: Mahr

English

Etymology

From Arabic مَهْر (mahr)

Noun

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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 (mohor) French: mahr (fr) m German: Brautgabe f Hindi: महर (hi) m (mahar) Indonesia: maskawin (id), mahar (id) Japanese: マフル (mafuru) Ngazidja Comorian: mahari Pashto: مهر m (mahr) Persian: مهر (fa) (mahr), مهریه (fa) (mahriye) Russian: махр (ru) m (maxr) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мехр m Roman: 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) Urdu: مہر m (mahr) Uzbek: mahr (uz)

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