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: Doublet of چاغ (čâġ) and from the same Turkic source as the former. The semantic development must have been along the lines of 'measure of something' → 'in high measure' → 'strong' → 'thick, healthy, sound' etc. Compare Uzbek chogʻ (“happy, gay, joyful”), Azerbaijani çağ (“healthy; well-fed; happy”) for a similar development. Cognate with Talysh çok (“good”). Persian چاغ (čâġ) was borrowed from a…
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.
köken: From Middle Dutch dichte, from Old Dutch *thīhti, from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz. Cognate with English tight and German dicht (“dense”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-der.? Sanskrit घ॒न (ghaná) Prakrit 𑀖𑀡 (ghaṇa) Hindi घना Inherited from Prakrit 𑀖𑀡 (ghaṇa), from Sanskrit घ॒न (ghaná), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-. Doublet of घन (ghan).