mahari

Swahili

noun

Definitions

dowry, bride price

Etymology

Derived from Arabic مَهْر (dowry, marriage portion).

Origin

Arabic

مَهْر

Gloss

dowry, marriage portion

Concept

Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

مَهْر Arabic
مهر Persian
mahar Indonesian
mtr' Middle Persian
𐎷𐎰𐎼 Old Persian