köken: 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”).
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.