gelin.
A woman dressed up and prepared for her own wedding or who has just married; a bride.
Meaning & usage
A woman dressed up and prepared for her own wedding or who has just married; a bride.
A woman who has joined a family through marriage; a daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or niece-in-law etc. depending on the speaker's perspective.
Where this word comes from
From Ottoman Turkish كلین (gelin, “bride, daughter in law”), from Proto-Turkic *kẹlin (“bride, daughter-in-law”), from Proto-Turkic *kẹl- (“to come”) with the suffix Proto-Turkic *-in (“derives nouns from intransitive verbs”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰠𐰤 (k²l²n²), Azerbaijani gəlin, Turkmen gelin, Kazakh келін (kelin), Kyrgyz келин (kelin), Uzbek kelin.
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