dowry

Naija

Etymology

From: English dowry

Pronunciation

• dáúrì

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 8
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 8830

Noun

• Money wey de dey pay give woman family when de want marry am.

• Dem don pay im dowry?  — (Egbokhare_2020, Have they paid her bride price?)
• As you dey ready marry so, keep dowry down. For dat area, de no get joy.  — (NSC_Onwuegbuzia_2021, Ensure that you keep some money for the dowry. In that community, they are not very nice.)

Synonyms

• brideprice

Translations

• English: dowry