Betroth

"Betroth" in Finnish

kihlata

(of a man: to promise to take (a woman) as a future spouse)

kihlautua

(of a man: to promise to take (a woman) as a future spouse)

lupautua

(of God: to enter into a relationship with (believers, or the church as a whole))

lupautua

(of a priest: to pledge (himself) to the church prior to being consecrated as a bishop)

luvata puolisoksi

(often of a parent or guardian: to promise that (two people) be married to each other; to promise that (a woman) be given in marriage to a man)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.