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gelin.

A woman dressed up and prepared for her own wedding or who has just married; a bride.

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun[ɟeˈlin]
  1. A woman dressed up and prepared for her own wedding or who has just married; a bride.

  2. 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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