child bride

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man, as practiced in some cultures.
 * 2) * 1878, Frank Leslie's Sunday magazine, Volumes 3-4, page 206
 * With a smile and baksheesh for the little fair-faced girl destined to be the child-bride of some unknown Egyptian
 * 1) * 1912, Metropolitan, Volume 36, page 1
 * Alone in [he]r tent the frightened child-bride [w]aits her husband, who will see her... [sic] ...for the first time.
 * 1) * 1993 Alixa Naf, Becoming American, page 142
 * Ohio, where she had peddled with her parents until she became a child bride to Salem's brother Khalil, in 1896
 * 1) * 2008, Hafiza Nilofar Khan, The University of Southern Mississippi, Treatment of a wife's body in the fiction of Indian subcontinental women writers, page 46
 * "en"
 * 1) * 2008, Hafiza Nilofar Khan, The University of Southern Mississippi, Treatment of a wife's body in the fiction of Indian subcontinental women writers, page 46
 * "en"

- In this article she discusses the 1992 incident in which a Hyderabadi Muslim father sells his daughter as a child-bride to an Arab named Yahya Mohammed al-Sageih for Rs. 6000.

Translations

 * Arabic: عُرُوس طِفْلَة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: lapsimorsian
 * French: enfant mariée
 * Italian: sposa bambina
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: barnebrud
 * Nynorsk: barnebrud
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: малоле́тняя неве́ста
 * Spanish: novia niña, novia menor de edad