Dowry

//ˈdaʊəɹi//

Synonyms for "dowry" (55 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (11)

Noun(3 words)

ability appanage bump caliber calibrate capability capacity dot

Strong matches (17)

dower endowed endowment equipment faculty flair forte foundation genius gift goods instinct invested investment jointure legal jointure

Noun(1 words)

dowery

Related words (27)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

4 entries

fee gift marriage-portion price

Antonyms

2 entries

bride price dower

Related terms

5 entries

dowager endow glory box hope chest trousseau

derived

4 entries

antidowry dowry death dowryless reverse dowry

has context

1 entries

less common

is a

2 entries

gift marriage portion

related to

28 entries

bride bride price chest concept cowrie dowager dower endow endowment gift glory box groom hope hope chest marriage marriage gift

Showing 16 of 28 words.

Translations

150 translations across 86 languages.

Afrikaans

2 entries

bruidsprys noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
lobola noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Akkadian

1 entries

nidintum noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Albanian

2 entries

pajë noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
prikë noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Ancient Greek

3 entries

προίξ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
προίξ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
φερνή noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Arabic

2 entries

مهر noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
مَهْر noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Armenian

1 entries

օժիտ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

cehiz noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Belarusian

3 entries

ве́на noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
выпра́ва noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
паса́г noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Bengali

2 entries

পণ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
যৌতুক noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Breton

1 entries

argouroù noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Bulgarian

4 entries

ве́но noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
вено́ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
зе́стра noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
при́дан noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Burmese

1 entries

ခန်းဝင်ပစ္စည်း noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Catalan

1 entries

dot noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Cebuano

1 entries

bugay noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

妝奩 /妆奁 noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
嫁妝 /嫁妆 noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
陪嫁 noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
陪送 noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Czech

1 entries

věno noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Danish

1 entries

medgift noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Dutch

1 entries

bruidsschat noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Egyptian

1 entries

g:r-grg:t-Y1V noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Esperanto

1 entries

doto noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Estonian

1 entries

kaasavara noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Finnish

1 entries

myötäjäiset noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

French

1 entries

dot noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Galician

1 entries

dote noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Georgian

1 entries

მზითევი noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

German

3 entries

Aussteuer noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
Brautschatz noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
Mitgift noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Greek

1 entries

προίκα noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Hebrew

1 entries

נְדוּנְיָה noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Hindi

3 entries

जहेज़ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
दहेज़ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
महर noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Hungarian

1 entries

hozomány noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Ido

2 entries

doario noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
doto noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Indonesian

1 entries

harta sesan noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Irish

3 entries

coibhche noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
crodh noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
spré noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Italian

1 entries

dote noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Japanese

1 entries

持参金 noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Kannada

1 entries

ವರದಕ್ಷಿಣೆ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Kazakh

1 entries

жасау noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Khmer

1 entries

ជំនូន noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Korean

2 entries

지참금 noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
혼수 noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

сеп noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Latin

2 entries

dōs noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
marītāgium noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Latvian

1 entries

pūrs noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Lithuanian

1 entries

kraitis noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Dott noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Macedonian

3 entries

мираз noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
приќе noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
чеиз noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Malay

1 entries

hantaran kahwin noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Malayalam

1 entries

സ്ത്രീധനം noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Manchu

1 entries

ᡶᡠᡩᡝᡥᡝ ᠵᠠᡴᠠ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Marathi

1 entries

हुंडा noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Marwari

1 entries

देज noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Māori

3 entries

pākū(w)hā noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
reperepe noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
tāpākūhā noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Northern Kurdish

3 entries

cihêz noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
next noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
qelen noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

medgift noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

medgift noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Old East Slavic

1 entries

вѣно noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Persian

4 entries

جهاز noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
جهیز noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
جهیزیه noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
مهر noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Brutpriess noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Polabian

1 entries

madgit noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Polish

2 entries

posag noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
wiano noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Portuguese

1 entries

dote noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Punjabi

2 entries

داج noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
ਦਾਜ noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Romanian

2 entries

dotă noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
zestre noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Russian

2 entries

ве́но noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
прида́ное noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

miraz noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
prćija noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
vijeno noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
ženinstvo noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Slovak

1 entries

veno noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Slovene

1 entries

dota noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Sotho

1 entries

lobola noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Southern Altai

1 entries

сеп noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Spanish

2 entries

dote noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
prebenda noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Swahili

1 entries

mahari noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Swedish

1 entries

hemgift noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Tagalog

3 entries

bigay-kaya noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
dote noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
ubad noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Tajik

2 entries

маҳр noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
ҷиҳоз noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Tamil

2 entries

சீதனம் noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
வரதட்சணை noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Telugu

2 entries

కట్నం noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
వరకట్నం noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Thai

1 entries

สินสอด noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Turkish

3 entries

başlık noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
drahoma noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
çeyiz noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎎𐎅𐎗 noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Ukrainian

4 entries

ви́права noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
випра́ва noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
ві́но noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
діви́зна noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Urdu

3 entries

جہیز noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
دہیز noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
مہر noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Uzbek

2 entries

mahr noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
sep noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Vietnamese

1 entries

của hồi môn noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Volapük

1 entries

jigamagivot noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Welsh

3 entries

agweddi noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
argyfrau noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)
gwaddol noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Yiddish

1 entries

נדן noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Zulu

1 entries

ilobolo noun (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It used to be that a girl could only marry if she had a dowry.

Source: tatoeba (729875)

A beautiful face is half of the dowry.

Source: tatoeba (4639914)

"Mary, who would have thought it would be 2021 and the entire United States is on carbohydrate lockdown by the Chinese authorities," said Tom. "When we were just married, Tom, I never told you about my secret dowry. This can of beans," said Mary.

Source: tatoeba (6614222)

And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son. And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.

Source: tatoeba (7819064)

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