"mahr" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mahrs [plural]
Etymology: From Arabic مَهْر (mahr) Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ar|مَهْر}} Arabic مَهْر (mahr), {{root|en|ar|م ه ر}} Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mahr (countable and uncountable, plural mahrs)
  1. (Islam) A mandatory gift from the groom to the bride upon marriage in Islamic cultures. Wikipedia link: mahr Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Islam, Marriage Translations (a mandatory gift from the groom to the bride upon marriage in Islamic cultures): مَهْر (mahr) [masculine] (Arabic), صَدَاق (ṣadāq) [masculine] (Arabic), мәһәр (məhər) (Bashkir), মহর (mohor) (Bengali), mahr [masculine] (French), Brautgabe [feminine] (German), महर (mahar) [masculine] (Hindi), maskawin (Indonesia), mahar (Indonesia), マフル (mafuru) (Japanese), mahari (Ngazidja Comorian), مهر (mahr) [masculine] (Pashto), مهر (mahr) (Persian), مهریه (mahriye) (Persian), махр (maxr) [masculine] (Russian), мехр [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), mehr [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), acidaque [masculine] (Spanish), mahr [masculine] (Spanish), mahari (Swahili), mahr [common-gender] (Swedish), маҳр (mahr) (Tajik), мәһәр (mähär) (Tatar), mehir (Turkish), مہر (mahr) [masculine] (Urdu), mahr (Uzbek)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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