bride

See also: Bride, bridé, bríde, and Bríde

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɹaɪd/

• Audio (California):

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

2. A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

   Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:9:

     I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

   • 1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode:

     Has by his own experience tried
     How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.

3. (obsolete, figurative) An object ardently loved.

Derived terms

• 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

Translations

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 noeng^4-2)

  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

  Alemannic German: Bruut f, Gspuusi n

• Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 f (bruþs)
• Greek: νύφη (el) f (nýfi)

  Ancient: νύμφη f (númphē)

  Doric: νύμφα f (númpha)

• 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:

  Central Kurdish: بووک (bûk)

  Laki: بەوی (bewî)

  Northern Kurdish: bûk (ku) f

  Southern Kurdish: وەۊ (weẅ)

• 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:

  Cyrillic: бэр (mn) (ber)

• Nepali: दुलही (dulahī), वधू (ne) (vadhū), बेहुली (behulī)
• Norman: mathiée f (Jersey), mathié f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brud (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: brud f, brur f

• 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:

  Iranian Persian: عَروس (arus), بَیو (bayu), دُغْد (doğd)

• 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:

  Cyrillic: нѐвеста f, мла̑да f

  Roman: nèvesta (sh) f, mlȃda (sh) f

• Slovak: nevesta (sk) f
• Slovene: nevesta (sl) f
• Southern Altai: колту (koltu), келин (kelin)
• 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

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

Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

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

Anagrams

• bider, birde, rebid

French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁid/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bride f (plural brides)

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

Derived terms

• à bride abattue
• à cheval donné on ne regarde pas la bride
• tourner bride

Descendants

• → Portuguese: brida

Verb

bride

1. inflection of brider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “bride”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

bride f

1. plural of brida

Middle English

Alternative forms

• brid, bryd, bryde
• brud, brude (Southern, West Midlands)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English brȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbriːd(ə)/, (West Midlands, Southern) /ˈbryːd(ə)/

Noun

bride (plural brides or bruden)

1. a bride; a woman recently married or to be married
2. (theology) Christendom as God's partner
3. (rare) any young woman in a relationship
4. (rare) a groom; a man recently married or to be married

Related terms

• bridale
• bridegome

Descendants

• English: bride
• Scots: bride
• Yola: breede

References

• “brīd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Portuguese

Verb

bride

1. inflection of bridar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾide/ [ˈbɾi.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ide
• Syllabification: bri‧de

Verb

bride

1. inflection of bridar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative