morning gift, dower (gift, often something valuable such as jewelry, given by the bridegroom to his newly married wife in the morning after the wedding)
dowry (gift presented to a newlywed family by the bride's kin)
çekim: çoğul зе́стри
köken: Borrowed from Romanian zestre (“dowry”), from Latin dextrae pl (“pledging”). According to Stefan Mladenov, the Bulgarian and Romanian terms may alternatively stem from Proto-Slavic *zęt- (“kinship”) + *-tra.
From Middle High German wideme, wideme, from Old High German widomo, widamo, widemo, from Proto-West Germanic *weþmō, from Proto-Germanic *wetmô. Not related to German Witwe (“widow”).