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bride price

money or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the family of the bride
Thing Custom Q765157
bride price
Пимоненко Николай Корнилиевич · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
custom, deed[2]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[4][5]
Different from
Wiano, dowry, hope chest[6][7][8]
Said to be the same as
mahr[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en bride wealth en bridewealth en bride price en brideprice ar المهر ar صداق ar فريضة الزواج ar مهر ar الفريضة ar الصداق ar الأجر ar أجر الزواج da Brudepris de Brautpreis de Brautgeld es excrex fa شیربها fi Morsiuslunnaat fr prix de la fiancée he מוהר
🔖 Identifiers · 17
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294902546
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300262901
Concepticon concept set ID
3024
Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID
1571
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID
EQSIM-00063
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/bridewealth
Freebase ID
/m/01j2b3
Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
5053
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1882795
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
brachnyi-vykup-e304b2
Harper's tag
bride-price
Interlingual Index ID
i106365
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JSTOR topic ID (archived)
bride-price
Lex ID
brudepris
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779533931
NL CR AUT ID
ph1218061
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
baslik

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🔗 Connections
← Different from 3
dowry, hope chest, nuptial gift
Different from 2
dowry, hope chest
Instance of 2
custom, deed
Subtypes 2
Lobolo, kalim
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Said to be the same as 1
mahr
← Said to be the same as 1
mahr
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Summary

bride price is a custom[1].

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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017) → 1882795
    Instance of → custom, deed
    Said to be the same as → mahr
    Different from → Wiano, dowry, hope chest
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: bride-price, Matched to bride price (#289920263) in Harper's tag"
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