bride price

Alternative forms

 * bride-price, brideprice

Noun

 * 1) A sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride, in some cultures.

Synonyms

 * bride gift, bride-gift, bridegift
 * bride token
 * bride wealth, bride-wealth, bridewealth
 * dower
 * reverse dowry
 * mahr

Translations

 * Acehnese: jeunamè
 * Amharic: ማጫ
 * Arabic: صَدَاق
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Banjarese:
 * Bashkir: ҡалым
 * Belarusian: ве́на
 * Bulgarian: вено́, ве́но
 * Chechen: там, урдо
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: brudepris, brudesum
 * Dutch: buidsprijs
 * Estonian: mõrsjaluna
 * Finnish:
 * French: prix de la fiancée
 * German:, Brautgeld
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush: урдув
 * Italian: prezzo della sposa
 * Kannada: ಕನ್ಯಾಶುಲ್ಕ
 * Kazakh: қалың, қалың мал
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, калың мал
 * Malay: mahar
 * Maori: kaireperepe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: brudepris
 * Nynorsk: brudepris
 * Old East Slavic: вѣно
 * Ossetian: ирӕд
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, preço de noiva
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вѐно, вијѐно
 * Roman: vèno, vijèno
 * Shona: roora
 * Slovak: veno
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, the transaction:
 * Tajik: ширбаҳо
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: galyň
 * Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎅𐎗
 * Ukrainian: віно́
 * Uzbek:, , qalin puli
 * Welsh: pris priodferch
 * Yakut: сулуу