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)
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.
dowry, marriage settlement, marriage portion · mahr
çekim: çoğul mahar-mahar
eş: maskawin
köken: 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.