dowry

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊəɹi/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊɹi/
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• rhymes with -aʊəɹi
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From Middle English dowarye, dowerie, from Anglo-Norman dowarie, douarie, from Old French douaire, from Medieval Latin dōtārium, from Latin dōs. Doublet of dower.

150 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bruidsprys — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Afrikaans: lobola — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Akkadian: nidintum — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Albanian: pajë — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Albanian: prikë — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Southern Altai: сеп (sep) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Arabic: مَهْر (mahr) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Arabic: مهر (mahr) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Armenian: օժիտ (ōžit) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Azerbaijani: cehiz — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Belarusian: паса́г (pasáh) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Belarusian: выпра́ва (vypráva) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Belarusian: ве́на (vjéna) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Bengali: যৌতুক (jōutuk) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Bengali: পণ (pon) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Breton: argouroù — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Bulgarian: зе́стра (zéstra) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Bulgarian: при́дан (prídan) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Bulgarian: чеи́з (čeíz) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Bulgarian: вено́ (venó) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Bulgarian: ве́но (véno) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Burmese: ခန်းဝင်ပစ္စည်း (hkan:wangpaccany:) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Catalan: dot — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Cebuano: bugay — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Chinese Mandarin: 嫁妝 /嫁妆 (jiàzhuāng) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Chinese Mandarin: 陪嫁 (péijià) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Chinese Mandarin: 陪送 (péisong) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Chinese Mandarin: 妝奩 /妆奁 (zhuānglián) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Czech: věno — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Danish: medgift — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Dutch: bruidsschat — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Egyptian: g:r-grg:t-Y1V (grgt) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Esperanto: doto — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Estonian: kaasavara — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Finnish: myötäjäiset — property or payment given at time of marriage
• French: dot — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Galician: dote — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Georgian: მზითევი (mzitevi) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• German: Aussteuer — property or payment given at time of marriage
• German: Mitgift — property or payment given at time of marriage
• German: Brautschatz — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Greek: προίκα (proíka) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ancient Greek: προίξ (proíx) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ancient Greek: προίξ (proíx) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ancient Greek: φερνή (phernḗ) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Hebrew: נְדוּנְיָה (n'dúnya) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Hindi: दहेज़ (dahez) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Hindi: दायजा (dāyjā) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Hindi: महर (mahar) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Hungarian: hozomány — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ido: doto — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ido: doario — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Indonesian: harta sesan — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Irish: coibhche — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Irish: crodh — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Irish: spré — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Italian: dote — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Japanese: 持参金 (jisankin) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Kannada: ವರದಕ್ಷಿಣೆ (varadakṣiṇe) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Kazakh: жасау (jasau) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Khmer: ជំនូន (cumnuun) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Korean: 지참금 (jichamgeum) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Korean: 혼수 (honsu) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Northern Kurdish: next — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Northern Kurdish: qelen — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Northern Kurdish: cihêz — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Kyrgyz: сеп (sep) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Latin: dōs — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Latin: marītāgium — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Latvian: pūrs — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Lithuanian: kraitis — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Luxembourgish: Dott — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Macedonian: мираз (miraz) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Macedonian: чеиз (čeiz) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Macedonian: приќе (priḱe) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Malay: hantaran kahwin — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Malayalam: സ്ത്രീധനം (strīdhanaṁ) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Manchu: ᡶᡠᡩᡝᡥᡝ ᠵᠠᡴᠠ (fudehe jaka) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Māori: reperepe — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Māori: tāpākūhā — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Māori: pākū(w)hā — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Marathi: हुंडा (huṇḍā) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Marwari: देज (dej) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Norwegian Bokmål: medgift — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Norwegian Nynorsk: medgift — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Old East Slavic: вѣно (věno) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Persian: جهیزیه (jahiziyye) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Persian: جهاز (jahâz) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Persian: جهیز (jahiz) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Persian: مهر (mahr) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Persian: کابین (kâbin) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Plautdietsch: Brutpriess — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Polabian: madgit — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Polish: posag — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Polish: wiano — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Portuguese: dote — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Punjabi: ਦਾਜ (dāj) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Punjabi: داج (dāj) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Romanian: zestre — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Romanian: dotă — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Russian: прида́ное (pridánoje) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Russian: ве́но (véno) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Serbo-Croatian: мираз — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Serbo-Croatian: вијено — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Serbo-Croatian: женинство — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Serbo-Croatian: прћија — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Serbo-Croatian: miraz — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Serbo-Croatian: vijeno — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Serbo-Croatian: ženinstvo — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Serbo-Croatian: prćija — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Slovak: veno — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Slovene: dota — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Sotho: lobola — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Spanish: dote — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Spanish: prebenda — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Swahili: mahari — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Swedish: hemgift — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Tagalog: bigay-kaya — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Tagalog: ubad — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Tagalog: dote — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Tajik: ҷиҳоз (jihoz) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Tajik: маҳр (mahr) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Tamil: வரதட்சணை (varataṭcaṇai) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Tamil: சீதனம் (cītaṉam) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Telugu: కట్నం (kaṭnaṁ) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Telugu: వరకట్నం (varakaṭnaṁ) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Thai: สินสอด (sǐn-sɔ̀ɔt) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Turkish: çeyiz — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Turkish: başlık — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Turkish: drahoma — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎅𐎗 (mhr) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ukrainian: по́саг (pósah) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ukrainian: ви́права (výprava) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ukrainian: випра́ва (vypráva) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ukrainian: при́дане (prýdane) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ukrainian: прида́не (prydáne) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ukrainian: ві́но (víno) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Ukrainian: діви́зна (divýzna) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Urdu: جہیز (jahez) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Urdu: دہیز (dahez) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Urdu: مہر (mahr) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Uzbek: sep — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Uzbek: mahr — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Vietnamese: của hồi môn — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Volapük: jigamagivot — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Welsh: gwaddol — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Welsh: argyfrau — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Welsh: agweddi — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Yiddish: נדן (nadn) — property or payment given at time of marriage
• Zulu: ilobolo — property or payment given at time of marriage