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- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɹaɪd/
- Rhymes: -aɪd
From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).
bride (plural brides)
- A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
- Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom
1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode:
Has by his own experience tried
How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
- (obsolete, figurative) An object ardently loved.
- always a bridesmaid, never a bride
- blushing bride
- bridal
- bride-ale
- brideangroom
- bridebed
- bridecake
- bridechamber
- bride gift
- bride-gift
- bridegroom
- bridehood
- brideless
- bridelet
- bridelike
- bridely
- bridemaid
- bridenapping
- Bride of the Red Sea
- Bride of the Sea
- bride-price
- bride price
- bridesmaid
- bridesmaiden
- bridesman
- bridesmatron
- brideswear
- bride-to-be
- bride token
- bridewain
- bride wealth
- bridewealth
- bride-wealth
- bride wear
- bridewear
- bridewort
- bridey
- bridezilla
- bridie
- child bride
- child-bride
- cyberbride
- December bride
- mail-order bride
- mourning bride
- off like a bride's nightie
- picture bride
- runaway bride
- the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral
- war bride
- would-be bride
woman in the context of her own wedding
- Afar: qibna
- Afrikaans: bruid (af)
- Albanian: nuse (sq) f
- Amharic: ሙሽራ (mušra)
- Arabic: عَرُوس f (ʕarūs)
- Moroccan Arabic: عروسة f (ʕrūsa)
- Armenian: հարս (hy) (hars), հարսնացու (hy) (harsnacʻu)
- Assamese: কইনা (koina)
- Azerbaijani: gəlin (az)
- Bashkir: кәләш (kələş)
- Bats: წინუს (c̣inus)
- Belarusian: няве́ста f (njavjésta), малада́я f (maladája)
- Bengali: বধূ (bn) (bodhu)
- Bulgarian: бу́лка (bg) f (búlka), младоже́нка f (mladožénka), годени́ца (bg) f (godeníca), неве́ста (bg) f (nevésta), невя́ста f (nevjásta)
- Burmese: သတို့သမီး (my) (sa.tui.sa.mi:)
- Catalan: núvia (ca) f
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵙⵍⵉⵜ (tislit)
- Chechen: нускал (nuskal)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 新娘 (san1 noeng4-2)
- Dungan: щифур (xifur), щинщифур (xinxifur)
- Eastern Min: 新人 (sìng-ìng)
- Gan: 新娘子 (xin1 nyiong4 zi), 新娘 (xin1 'nyiong4)
- Hakka: 新娘 (sîn-ngiòng)
- Hokkien: 新娘 (sin-niû)
- Jin: 新娘子 (xing1 nion1 zeh)
- Mandarin: 新娘 (zh) (xīnniáng), 新婦 / 新妇 (zh) (xīnfù), 新娘子 (zh) (xīnniángzi), 新媳婦兒 / 新媳妇儿 (xīnxífur) (colloquial)
- Northern Min: 新娘 (séng-niông)
- Wu: 新娘子 (1shin-gnian-tsy)
- Xiang: 新娘子 (xin1 nyian2 zr)
- Chukchi: ӈэвъэнлыӄыл (ṇėvʺėnlyqyl)
- Cornish: benyn bries f
- Czech: nevěsta (cs) f
- Danish: brud (da) c
- Dutch: bruid (nl) f
- Esperanto: novedzino
- Estonian: pruut
- Faroese: brúður f
- Finnish: morsian (fi)
- French: mariée (fr) f
- Gagauz: gelin
- Galician: noiva f, alarosa f
- Georgian: დედოფალი (ka) (dedopali), პატარძალი (ṗaṭarʒali)
- German: Braut (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 f (bruþs)
- Greek: νύφη (el) f (nýfi)
- Gujarati: નવવધૂ f (navavdhū), નવોઢા f (navoḍhā)
- Hebrew: כַּלָּה (he) f (kalá)
- Hindi: दुलहन (hi) f (dulhan), नवोढा f (navoḍhā), नववधू f (navavdhū), वधू (hi) f (vadhū), अरूस (hi) f (arūs)
- Hungarian: menyasszony (hu), ara (hu)
- Icelandic: brúður (is) f
- Ido: (♂♀) fiancito (io), (♂) fiancitulo (io), (♀) fiancitino (io)
- Indonesian: pengantin (id), pengantin perempuan
- Ingrian: morsia, noorikke
- Ingush: нускал (nuskal)
- Irish: brídeach f
- Italian: fidanzata (it), sposa (it) f
- Japanese: 花嫁 (ja) (はなよめ, hanayome), 新婦 (ja) (しんぷ, shinpu), 嫁 (ja) (よめ, yome)
- Kashmiri: مَہاریٚنؠ (mahāren')
- Kazakh: қалыңдық (qalyñdyq)
- Khmer: កូនក្រមុំ (koun krɑmum)
- Kikuyu: mũhiki class 1
- Korean: 신부(新婦) (ko) (sinbu)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: колукту (koluktu)
- Ladin: nevicia f
- Lao: ເຈົ້າສາວ (chao sāo)
- Latin: nūpta f
- Latvian: līgava f
- Laz: გელინო (gelino)
- Lithuanian: nuotaka f
- Low German: Bruud f
- Macedonian: не́веста f (névesta)
- Malay: pengantin perempuan
- Maltese: għarusa f
- Maori: wahine mārena
- Megleno-Romanian: niveastă f
- Middle English: bryd
- Mingrelian: მოჭყუდუ (moč̣q̇udu)
- Mongolian:
- Nepali: दुलही (dulahī), वधू (ne) (vadhū), बेहुली (behulī)
- Norman: mathiée f (Jersey), mathié f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: невѣста f (nevěsta)
- Old English: brȳd f
- Old High German: brūt f
- Old Norse: brúðr f
- Old Saxon: brūd f
- Pannonian Rusyn: нєвеста f (njevesta), млода f (mloda)
- Papiamentu: brùit
- Pashto: جنجۍ (ps) f (janjə́y)
- Persian:
- Plautdietsch: Brut f
- Polish: panna młoda (pl) f, młoda (pl) f (colloquially), oblubienica (pl) f (dated), niewiasta (pl) f (regional)
- Portuguese: noiva (pt) f
- Romani: bori f
- Romanian: nevastă (ro) f, mireasă (ro) f
- Russian: неве́ста (ru) f (nevésta), новобра́чная (ru) f (novobráčnaja), молода́я (ru) f (molodája)
- Saho: cibna
- Sanskrit: वधू (sa) f (vadhū)
- Scottish Gaelic: bean na bainnse f, bean nuadh-phòsda f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: nevesta (sk) f
- Slovene: nevesta (sl) f
- Spanish: novia (es) f
- Svan: წუ̂ილ (c̣ûil)
- Swahili: biarusi, biharusi
- Swedish: brud (sv) c
- Tajik: арус (tg) (arus)
- Talysh:
- Asalemi: ویو (vayu)
- Tamil: மணப்பெண் (ta) (maṇappeṇ)
- Tarifit: tasrit f
- Tatar: кәләш (tt) (käläş)
- Telugu: వధువు (te) (vadhuvu), పెళ్ళి కూతురు (peḷḷi kūturu)
- Thai: เจ้าสาว (th) (jâo-sǎao)
- Tibetan: མནའ་མ (mna' ma)
- Turkish: gelin (tr)
- Turkmen: gelin, gelneje
- Ukrainian: наре́чена f (naréčena), молода́ f (molodá), неві́ста f (nevísta), зару́чена f (zarúčena)
- Urdu: دُلْہَن f (dulhan), عَرُوس f ('arūs)
- Uyghur: كېلىن (këlin)
- Uzbek: kelin (uz)
- Vietnamese: cô dâu (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) gam (vo), (♂) higam (vo), (♀) jigam (vo)
- Walloon: marieye (wa) f
- Welsh: priodferch (cy) f
- White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: כּלה f (kale)
- Zhuang: bawxmoq
bride (third-person singular simple present brides, present participle briding, simple past and past participle brided)
- (obsolete) to make a bride of
Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).
bride (plural brides)
- an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework
Inherited from Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German brīdel (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German brīdil (“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil (“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-West Germanic *brigdil (“bridle”).
Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.
bride f (plural brides)
- → Portuguese: brida
bride
- inflection of brider:
- “bride”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
bride f
Inherited from Old English brȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”).
bride (plural brides or bruden)
- a bride; a woman recently married or to be married
- (theology) Christendom as God's partner
- (rare) any young woman in a relationship
- (rare) a groom; a man recently married or to be married
- “brīd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.
bride
- inflection of bridar:
bride
- inflection of bridar: