مهر
Persian
noun
Definitions
- (Islam) Mahr, dowry, bride-price or bride gift; a pre-negotiated gift of monetary or symbolic value which is promised to a bride by a groom upon marriage.
- contracting
- contract
- covenant
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَهْر (dowry, marriage portion) inherited from Middle Persian mtr' (contract, bond) derived from Old Persian 𐎷𐎰𐎼 derived from Avestan 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬋 (contract, oath, covenant) derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mitra (treaty, agreement, covenant, promise).
Origin
Proto-Indo-Iranian
*mitra
Gloss
treaty, agreement, covenant, promise
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Mehr English
- goldmohur English
- mohur English
- अमित्र Sanskrit
- मित्र Sanskrit
- مَهْر Arabic
- मित्र Hindi
- मुहर Hindi
- มิตร Thai
- mahar Indonesian
- mitra Indonesian
- mohor Indonesian
- mohor Malay
- mitta Pali
- មិត្ត Pali
- муур Macedonian
- мухур Macedonian
- મિત્ર Gujarati
- *mitra Proto-Indo-Iranian
- mahari Swahili
- मित्र Marathi
- មិត្ត Central Khmer
- *mitrás Proto-Indo-Aryan
- متر Urdu
- mtr' Middle Persian
- mwdl Middle Persian
- 𑀫𑀺𑀢𑁆𑀢 Sauraseni Prakrit
- 𐎷𐎰𐎼 Old Persian
- ಮಿತ್ರ Kannada
- maitär Tocharian B
- 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬋 Avestan
- ᬫᬶᬢ᭄ᬭ Balinese
- मित्र Nepali
- mehherei Dongxiang
- 𑀫𑀺𑀢𑁆𑀢 Magadhi Prakrit