dowry

Etymology
From, , from , , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
 * 2)  Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
 * 3)  Dower.
 * 4) A natural gift or talent.
 * 5)  A large amount.
 * But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.
 * But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.
 * But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: bruidsprys,
 * Albanian: ,
 * Ancient Greek: προίξ
 * Arabic: دُوطَة, مَهْر
 * Egyptian Arabic: مهر
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: паса́г, выпра́ва, ве́на
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, , , вено́, ве́но
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: medgift
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: doto
 * Estonian: kaasavara
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ;, Brautschatz
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: προίξ, φερνή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: दहेज़, जहेज़,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian: mas kawin,
 * Irish: coibhche, crodh, spré
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:, marītāgium
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: kraitis
 * Luxembourgish: Dott
 * Macedonian: мираз, чеиз, приќе
 * Malay: mahar,
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᡶᡠᡩᡝᡥᡝ ᠵᠠᡴᠠ
 * Maori: reperepe, tāpākūhā
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: medgift
 * Nynorsk: medgift
 * Old East Slavic: вѣно
 * Persian:, , , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Brutpriess
 * Polabian: madgit
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਦਾਜ
 * Shahmukhi: داج
 * Rajasthani: देज
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мираз, вијено, женинство, прћија
 * Roman:, vijeno, ženinstvo, prćija
 * Slovak: veno
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: lobola
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bigay-kaya, ubad
 * Tajik: ҷиҳоз, маҳр
 * Tamil: வரதட்சணை,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎅𐎗
 * Ukrainian: по́саг, ви́права, випра́ва, при́дане, прида́не, ві́но, діви́зна
 * Urdu: جہیز, دہیز, مہر
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: của hồi môn
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: gwaddol, argyfrau, agweddi
 * Yiddish: נדן
 * Zulu: ilobolo

Verb

 * 1) To bestow a dowry upon.