bride price (a payment, known in some cultures, by the bridegroom [or his family] to the bride [or her family]) · mahr (a bride price prescribed by Islamic law)
Terme de droit musulman qui désigne un douaire coutumier. Celui-ci peut varier d’une somme d’argent symbolique (un dinar en Tunisie) à des biens plus considérables que le prétendant doit fournir à sa future épouse.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kalïŋ. Cognate with Kazakh қалың (qalyñ), Kumyk къалын (qalın), Bashkir ҡалын (qalın), Southern Altai калыҥ (kalïŋ), Azerbaijani qalın, Turkish kalın, Turkmen galyň, Uzbek qalin, etc.
Inherited from Malay mahar, from Arabic مَهْر (mahr, “marriage portion”), from Old Persian 𐎷𐎰𐎼 (mithra), from Avestan 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬋 (miθrō, “covenant, contract, oath”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mitra (“covenant, treaty, agreement, promise”). Doublet of mitra and mohor.