bride

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bɹʌɪd/
• (US) IPA: /bɻaɪd/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

Etymology 1

From Old English brȳd, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz. Cognate with West Frisian breid, Dutch bruid, German Braut, Swedish and Danish brud.

Noun

bride (plural brides)

1. A woman who is going to marry or who has just been married.

Derived terms

• bridezilla
• bride-to-be

Coordinate terms

• bridegroom
• groom

Derived terms

Terms derived to bride

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bride-to-be bride wealth off like a bride's nightie war bride would-be bride

Translations

bride

• Arabic: عروس (ar) (ʿurūs) f
• Armenian: հարս (hy) (hars), հարսնացու (hy) (harsnac'u)
• Azeri: gəlin (az)
• Belarusian: нявеста (be) (njavjésta) f, маладая (be) (maladája) f
• Bulgarian: булка (bg) (búlka) f, младоженка (bg) (mladožénka) f, годеница (bg) (godeníca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵙⵍⵉⵜ (tislit)
• Chinese:

  Gan: 新婦, 新妇 (shin fuh)

  Mandarin: 新娘 (cmn) (xīnniáng), 新婦 (cmn), 新妇 (cmn) (xīnfù)

• Czech: nevěsta (cs) f
• Danish: brud (da) c
• Dutch: bruid (nl) f
• Esperanto: novedzino (eo)
• Finnish: morsian (fi)
• French: jeune mariée (fr) f, future mariée (fr) f, mariée (fr) f, future épouse (fr) f, épouse (fr) f
• Georgian: დე­დო­ფა­ლი (ka) (dedop'ali) f, პა­ტარ­ძა­ლი (ka) (pat'armali) f
• German: Braut (de) f
• Greek: νύφη (el) (nýfi) f
• Gujarati: નવવધૂ (navvadhū) f
• Hebrew: כַּלָּה (he) (kalá) f
• Hindi: दुलहन (hi) (dul'han) f, नवोढा (hi) (navōḍhā) f, नववधू (hi) (navvadhū) f, वधू (hi) (vadhū) f
• Ido: (♂♀) fiancito (io), (♂) fiancitulo (io), (♀) fiancitino (io)
• Italian: fidanzata (it), sposa (it) f
• Japanese: 花嫁 (ja) (hanayome), 新婦 (ja) (shinpu), 嫁 (ja) (yome)
• Jèrriais: mathiée f, mathié f
• Korean: 신부 (ko) (sinbu) (新婦 (ko))
• Kurdish: bûk (ku) f

  Sorani: بووک

• Latvian: līgava (lv)

• Low German: Bruut (nds) f
• Macedonian: невеста (mk) (névesta) f
• Malay: pengantin perempuan
• Maltese: għarusa (mt) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brud (no) m and f

  Nynorsk: brud (nn) f

• Old Church Slavonic: нєвѣста (nevěsta) f
• Persian: عروس (fa) (arus)
• Polish: panna młoda (pl) f, narzeczona (pl) f
• Portuguese: noiva (pt) f
• Romanian: mireasă (ro) f
• Russian: невеста (ru) (nevésta) f, новобрачная (ru) (novobráčnaja) f, молодая (ru) (molodája) f
• Scottish Gaelic: bean na bainnse f, bean nuadh-phòsda f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: невеста (sh) f, млада (sh) f

  Roman: nevesta (sh) f, mlada (sh) f

• Slovak: nevesta (sk) f
• Slovene: nevesta (sl) f
• Spanish: novia (es) f
• Swedish: brud (sv) c
• Talysh:

  Asalemi: ویو (vayu)

• Telugu: వధువు (vadhuvu), పెళ్ళి కూతురు (pelli kooturu)
• Thai: เจ้าสาว (th) (jâo săao)
• Turkish: gelin (tr)
• Ukrainian: наречена (uk) (naréčena) f, молода (uk) (molodá) f
• Urdu: دلہن (ur) (dul'han) f, نذوڈھا (ur) (navōḍhā) f
• Vietnamese: cô dâu (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) gam (vo), (♂) higam (vo), (♀) jigam (vo)
• Yiddish: כּלה (yi) (kale) f

See also

• husband-to-be
• wife-to-be

Verb

bride (third-person singular simple present brides, present participle briding, simple past and past participle brided)

1. (obsolete) To make a bride of.

Etymology 2

From French bride (“bridle”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

1. An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework.

Anagrams

• birde, rebid

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French

Etymology

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-Germanic *brigdilaz (“bridle”). Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /bʁid/, X-SAMPA: /bRid/

Noun

bride f (plural brides)

1. (horsemanship) bridle
2. strap
3. loop (of a button); bride (of lace)
4. (medicine) adhesion

Verb

bride

1. first-person singular present indicative of brider
2. third-person singular present indicative of brider
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of brider
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of brider
5. second-person singular imperative of brider

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Italian

Noun

bride f

1. Plural form of brida