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From Middle English wedding ring, wedding ryng, weddynge rynge, weddyng ryng.
wedding ring (plural wedding rings)
- (jewelry) One of a pair or rings exchanged by spouses in a wedding ceremony, and afterwards worn by them, symbolizing continuous fidelity.
1837 February, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born, and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 6:The surgeon leant over the body, and raised the left hand. "The old story," he said, shaking his head: "no wedding-ring, I see. Ah! good night!"
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a ring symbolizing marriage
- Arabic: خَاتَم زَوَاج m (ḵātam zawāj)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 結婚戒指/结婚戒指 (git3 fan1 gaai3 zi2), 婚戒 (fan1 gaai3)
- Hokkien: 結婚手指/结婚手指 (kiat-hun chhiú-chí)
- Mandarin: 結婚戒指/结婚戒指 (jiéhūn jièzhi), 結婚指環/结婚指环 (jiéhūn zhǐhuán), 婚戒 (hūnjiè)
- Crimean Tatar: nişan yüzügi
- Czech: snubní prsten m
- Danish: vielsesring (da) c
- Dutch: trouwring (nl) m
- Esperanto: geedzoringo
- Finnish: vihkisormus (fi)
- French: alliance (fr) f
- Georgian: ნიშნობის ბეჭედი (nišnobis beč̣edi)
- German: Ehering (de) m, Trauring (de) m
- Greek: βέρα (el) f (véra)
- Hungarian: jegygyűrű (hu)
- Italian: fede (it) f, vera (it) f
- Japanese: 結婚指輪 (ja) (kekkon yubiwa)
- Macedonian: бу́рма f (búrma), ве́нчален пр́стен m (vénčalen pŕsten)
- Maltese: ċurkett ta’ tieġ
- Maori: rīngi mārena, rīngi mārenatanga
- Norman: bague dé neuches f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: giftering m
- Nynorsk: giftering m
- Persian: حلقه ازدواج (halqe-ye ezdevâj)
- Polish: obrączka (pl) f, obrączka ślubna (pl) f
- Portuguese: aliança (pt) f
- Romanian: verighetă (ro) f, inel de logodnă (ro) n
- Russian: обруча́льное кольцо́ (ru) n (obručálʹnoje kolʹcó)
- Scottish Gaelic: fàinne-pòsaidh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бурма f
- Roman: burma (sh) f
- Slovak: snubný prsteň m
- Spanish: alianza (es) f, anillo de boda m, anillo de casado m
- Swedish: vigselring (sv) c
- Telugu: ఉంకుటుంగరము (te) (uṅkuṭuṅgaramu)
- Turkish: alyans (tr)
- Ukrainian: обру́чка f (obrúčka)
- Vietnamese: nhẫn cưới (vi)
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