dowry
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. προίξ, ἡ, P. and V. φερνή, ἡ.
bridal gifts: V. ἕδνα, τά (Euripides, Andromache 2, 153, 873).
bring dowry with one (of a wife): P. ἐπιφέρεσθαι προῖκα.
he took my mother to wife though she brought no dowry: P. τὴν ἐμὴν μητέρα ἔλαβεν οὐδὲν ἐπιφερομένην.
give as a dowry, v.: P. ἐπιδιδόναι.
giving her a dowry of twenty-five minae, besides clothes and ornaments: P. σὺν ἱματίοις καὶ χρυσίοις πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι μνᾶς ἐπιδούς (Isaeus 69).
without a dowry, adj.: P. ἄπροικος.
Translations
Afrikaans: bruidsprys, lobola; Albanian: pajë, prikë; Arabic: دُوطَة, مَهْر; Egyptian Arabic: مهر; Armenian: օժիտ; Azerbaijani: cehiz; Belarusian: пасаг, выправа, вена; Bengali: যৌতুক; Breton: argouroù; Bulgarian: зестра, придан, чеиз, вено, вено; Burmese: ခန်းဝင်ပစ္စည်း; Catalan: dot; Chinese Mandarin: 嫁妝, 嫁妆, 陪嫁, 陪送; Czech: věno; Danish: medgift; Dutch: bruidsschat; Esperanto: doto; Estonian: kaasavara; Finnish: myötäjäiset; French: dot; Galician: dote; Georgian: მზითევი; German: Aussteuer; Mitgift, Brautschatz; Greek: προίκα; Ancient Greek: προίξ, φερνή; Hebrew: נְדוּנְיָה; Hindi: दहेज़, जहेज़, महर; Hungarian: hozomány; Ido: doto, doario; Indonesian: mas kawin, mahar; Irish: coibhche, crodh, spré; Italian: dote; Japanese: 持参金; Kannada: ವರದಕ್ಷಿಣೆ; Kazakh: жасау; Khmer: ជំនូន; Korean: 지참금(持參金); Kurdish Northern Kurdish: next, qelen, cihêz; Kyrgyz: сеп; Latin: dos, maritagium; Latvian: pūrs; Lithuanian: kraitis; Luxembourgish: Dott; Macedonian: мираз, чеиз, приќе; Malay: mahar, mas kahwin; Malayalam: സ്ത്രീധനം; Manchu: ᡶᡠᡩᡝᡥᡝ, ᡶᠵᠠᡴᠠ; Maori: reperepe, tāpākūhā; Norwegian Bokmål: medgift; Nynorsk: medgift; Old East Slavic: вѣно; Persian: جهیزیه, جهاز, جهیز, مهر, کابین; Plautdietsch: Brutpriess; Polish: posag, wiano; Portuguese: dote; Punjabi Gurmukhi: ਦਾਜ; Shahmukhi: داج; Rajasthani: देज; Romanian: zestre; Russian: приданое, вено; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: мираз, вијено, женинство, прћија; Roman: miraz, vijeno, ženinstvo, prćija; Slovak: veno; Slovene: dota; Sotho: lobola; Spanish: dote; Swahili: mahari; Swedish: hemgift; Tagalog: bigay-kaya, ubad; Tajik: ҷиҳоз, маҳр; Tamil: வரதட்சனை, சீதனம்; Telugu: కట్నం, వరకట్నం; Thai: สินสอด; Turkish: çeyiz, başlık, drahoma; Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎅𐎗; Ukrainian: посаг, виправа, виправа, придане, придане, ві́но, дівизна; Urdu: جہیز, دہیز, مہر; Uzbek: sep, mahr; Vietnamese: của hồi môn; Volapük: jigamagivot; Welsh: gwaddol, argyfrau, agweddi; Westrobothnian: heimafåli; Yiddish: נדן; Zulu: ilobolo