marriage

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from. Equivalent to. . Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1) The state of being married.
 * 2) A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, and/or religious rights and responsibilities.
 * 3) * 1944, Tiaki Hikawera Mitira, Takitimu, page 123:
 * By his marriage to his two wives, Tapuwae quietly strengthened all of the pas of the Wairoa district, as many of them came under his control through these unions.
 * 1) * 1990, John Stevens, Lust for enlightenment: Buddhism and sex:
 * One layman in Buddha's time decided to embrace celibacy and relinquished his marriage vows to his four wives. When he asked them what they wanted in terms of a settlement, one said,
 * 1) * 1995, Edith Deen, All of the women of the Bible, page 275:
 * The account of the loss of the blessing of his father Isaac appears immediately after Esau's marriage to his Hittite wives.
 * 1)  The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.
 * My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.
 * Pat and Leslie's marriage to each other lasted forty years.
 * 1)  The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.
 * 2) A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed.
 * You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.
 * 1)  A close union.
 * 2) * 2006 August 9, Amy Scattergood, A wild dream in the wild, published in the Los Angeles Times, republished in 2009 in The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant (by Michelle and Phillip Wojtowicz and Michael Gilson with Catherine Price), on the cover:
 * But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
 * 1) A joining of two parts.
 * 2)  A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
 * 3)  In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
 * 4)  A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.
 * 1) * 2006 August 9, Amy Scattergood, A wild dream in the wild, published in the Los Angeles Times, republished in 2009 in The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant (by Michelle and Phillip Wojtowicz and Michael Gilson with Catherine Price), on the cover:
 * But the food is real: a marriage of local ingredients and serious technique.
 * 1) A joining of two parts.
 * 2)  A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
 * 3)  In solitaire or patience games, the placing a card of the same suit on the next one above or below it in value.
 * 4)  A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.
 * 1)  A homosexual relationship between male prisoners.

Usage notes

 * For a detailed discussion of marriage as an institution, with its traditions, its norms, and its accompanying legal rights and obligations, please consult the Wikipedia article on marriage.
 * On Wiktionary, see also "common-law marriage", "open marriage", and "gay marriage".

Hyponyms

 * wedlease

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan: 𐔾𐔰𐕝𐕄𐕒
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ጋብቻ
 * Arabic: زَوَاج, نِكَاح
 * Egyptian Arabic: جواز
 * Moroccan Arabic: زواج
 * Aragonese: matrimonio
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Assamese: বিয়া
 * Asturian: matrimoniu
 * Azerbaijani: nikah
 * Bashkir: никах
 * Basque: ezkontza
 * Belarusian: шлюб, жані́цьба, заму́жжа , заму́ства
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bole: kai bono
 * Bulgarian:, , съпру́жество
 * Burmese:, လက်ထပ်ခြင်း, ,
 * Buryat: гэрлэлгэ
 * Catalan:
 * Chamorro: akkamo'
 * Chechen: брак
 * Cherokee: ᏨᏓᏓᏨᏍᏙᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 婚姻, 結婚
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:, giftermål
 * Dutch: ,
 * Elfdalian: ektnskap
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: hjúnaband, hjúnalag, hjúnaskapur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: matrimoni
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ქორწინება
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Ee
 * Gothic: 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γάμος
 * Greenlandic: aappariinneq, aappariilerneq
 * Gujarati:
 * Haitian Creole: maryaj
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ब्याह
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo:, nwanyi
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: pósadh
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: kazamentu
 * Kannada:
 * Kashmiri: کھانٛدَر, نیتھٕر
 * Kazakh: неке
 * Khmer: ការរៀបការ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ການສົມຣົດ
 * Latin:, coniugium, nūptus, cōnūbium, marītāgium
 * Latvian: laulība
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lun Bawang: aweh
 * Luxembourgish: Bestietnes
 * Macedonian: брак
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: വിവാഹജീവിതം,
 * Maltese: żwieġ
 * Manchu: ᡥᠣᠯᠪᠣᠨ
 * Manx: poosey
 * Maori: mārenatanga, mārena
 * Marathi: लग्न
 * Mauritian Creole: maryaz
 * Mirandese: casamiento, matrimónio
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: iigeh
 * Nepali: बिहा
 * Norman: mathiage
 * Northern Sami: náittosdilli, náittus
 * Northern Sotho: lenyalo
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, giftemål, giftermål
 * Nynorsk: ekteskap, giftarmål
 * Occitan: ,
 * Odia:
 * Okinawan: にーびち
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: бракъ
 * Old English: sinsċipe
 * Oromo: gaa'ela
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Ehe
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi: ਵਿਆਹ
 * Rajasthani:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: lètg, letg , alach , lai , matrimoni
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sami:
 * Lule Sami: gállasjvuohta
 * Southern Sami: ektievoete
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian:
 * Scots: mairiage
 * Scottish Gaelic: pòsadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бра̑к, жѐнидба, у̏даја
 * Roman:, ,
 * Seychellois Creole: maryaz
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi: विहांउ
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: manželstvo,
 * Slovene: zakonska zveza
 * Somali: guur
 * Sotho: lenyalo
 * Southern Ndebele: umtjhado
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swazi: umshado
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, pagkakasal
 * Tajik:, никоҳ
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Tetum: kaben
 * Thai: ,
 * Tigrinya: መውስቦ
 * Tsonga: vukati
 * Tswana: lenyalo
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: nika
 * Udi: лашӏкӏой
 * Ukrainian:, одру́ження , замі́жжя , заму́жжя
 * Urdu: شادی, اِزْدِواج, نِکاح, بِیاہ, وِواہ
 * Uyghur: نىكاھ
 * Uzbek:
 * Venda: mbingano
 * Vietnamese:, , , lể cưới
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Xhosa: umtshato
 * Yiddish: זיווגשאַפֿט, מאַן־און־ווײַב־לעבן, זיווג־לעבן, נישׂואין
 * Zulu:


 * Arabic: زَوَاج
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: loáre
 * Asturian: matrimoniu
 * Azerbaijani: evlilik
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏨᏓᏓᏨᏍᏙᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 婚姻
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, giftermål
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Ewe: srɔ̃ɖeɖe
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: naimiskauppa
 * Irish: pósadh, lánúnas
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kashmiri: کھانٛدَر, نیتھٕر
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: coniugium
 * Latvian: laulība
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: Eihe
 * Macedonian: брак
 * Maltese: żwieġ
 * Manchu: ᡥᠣᠯᠪᠣᠨ
 * Manx: poosey
 * Maore Comorian: ndrola
 * Maori: mārenatanga
 * Ngazidja Comorian: nɗola
 * Norman: mathiage
 * Old English: sinsċipe
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Ehe
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: mairiage
 * Scottish Gaelic: pòsadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бра̑к
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu: نِکاح
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yámana: tuku
 * Yiddish: זיווג, פֿאָרפֿאָלקשאַפֿט


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عُرْس,
 * Moroccan Arabic: عرس
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: вясе́лле, сва́дзьба
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 婚禮
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲅⲁⲙⲟⲥ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nupto
 * Estonian: pulm, pulmad
 * Ewe: srɔ̃ɖeɖe
 * Faroese: brúdleyp
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ქორწილი
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γάμος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , , , ब्याह
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: pósadh,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kashmiri: کھانٛدَر, نیتھٕر
 * Kazakh: той
 * Khmer:, មង្គលការ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: кыз тою
 * Latin: nuptiae, marītāgium
 * Latvian: kāzas, vedības, laulības
 * Lithuanian: vestuvės,
 * Luxembourgish: Bestietnes, Hochzäit
 * Macedonian: свадба, венчавка, женидба
 * Malayalam:, , , , താലികെട്ട്
 * Maltese: żwieġ, tieġ
 * Manx: poosey, bannish
 * Maori: mārenatanga
 * Marathi: लग्न
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: mathiage
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: bryllaup
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: сватьба
 * Old East Slavic: сватьба
 * Old English: ġifta
 * Old French: mariage
 * Old Polish: swadźba, swaćba
 * Pashto: توى,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: mairiage
 * Scottish Gaelic: banais, pòsadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сва̀дба, венча́ње, вјенча́ње
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: svadba,, veselie
 * Slovene:, svatba
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:, тӯй
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: งานแต่งงาน,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, , сва́йба
 * Urdu: وِواہ, شادی
 * Uyghur: توي
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Yiddish: חתונה, חופּה, קידושין


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, forening
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:


 * Danish: forening
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: stato coniugale
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᡥᠣᠯᠪᠣᠨ
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: мариа́ж
 * Russian:


 * Italian:
 * Kannada:
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian:
 * Sindhi: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: