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English
Etymology
From Middle English douȝter in lawe; equivalent to daughter + -in-law.
Pronunciation
Noun
daughter-in-law (plural daughters-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) daughter-in-laws)
- The wife of one's child.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
wife of one's child
- Adyghe: нысэ (nəsɛ)
- Albanian: nuse (sq) f
- Andi: нуса (nusa)
- Arabic: زَوْجَة اَلاِبْن f (zawjat al-ibn)
- Archi: нусдур (nusdur)
- Armenian: հարս (hy) (hars)
- Aromanian: norã f, nor (roa-rup)
- Assamese: বোৱাৰী (büari)
- Asturian: nuera (ast) f, ñuera (ast) f
- Avar: нус (nus)
- Azerbaijani: gəlin (az)
- Bactrian: ασνωυο (asnōuo)
- Bashkir: килен (kilen)
- Belarusian: няве́стка f (njavjéstka)
- Breton: merc'h-kaer (br) f, merc'heg f
- Bulgarian: снаха́ (bg) f (snahá)
- Burmese: ချွေးမ (my) (hkywe:ma.)
- Catalan: nora (ca) f
- Chechen: нус (nus)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 新婦／新妇 (yue) (san1 pou5, sam1 pou5), 媳婦／媳妇 (sik1 fu5) (formal)
- Hakka: 心臼 (sîm-khiû)
- Hokkien: 新婦／新妇 (zh-min-nan) (sin-pū, sin-pǔ, sim-pū), 囝新婦／囝新妇 (kiáⁿ-sin-pū, káⁿ-sin-pǔ, kiáⁿ-sim-pū)
- Mandarin: 媳婦／媳妇 (zh) (xífù), 兒媳／儿媳 (zh) (érxí), 兒媳婦／儿媳妇 (zh) (érxífù)
- Chuvash: кин (kin)
- Cornish: gohydh f
- Czech: snacha (cs) f
- Danish: svigerdatter (da) c
- Dutch: schoondochter (nl) f
- Erzya: урьва (uŕva)
- Esperanto: bofilino
- Estonian: minia (et)
- Ewe: lɔ̃xoyɔvi
- Faroese: verdóttir f
- Finnish: miniä (fi)
- French: bru (fr) f, belle-fille (fr) f
- Friulian: brût, nore f
- Galician: nora (gl) f
- Georgian: რძალი (rʒali)
- German: Schwiegertochter (de) f, Schnur (de) f (dialectal, otherwise obsolete))
- Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 f (bruþs)
- Greek: νύφη (el) f (nýfi), κόρη (el) f (kóri)
- Ancient: νύμφη f (númphē), νυός f (nuós)
- Hebrew: כַּלָּה (he) f (kala)
- Hindi: बहू (hi) (bahū)
- Hungarian: meny (hu)
- Hunsrik: Schwiegherdochter f
- Icelandic: tengdadóttir (is) f
- Ido: bofiliino (io)
- Indonesian: menantu perempuan, menantu (id)
- Ingrian: minjä
- Ingush: нус (nus)
- Irish: iníon-i-ndlí f, banchliamhain m
- Italian: nuora (it) f
- Japanese: 嫁 (ja) (よめ, yome)
- Kabuverdianu: jénra
- Karakalpak: kelin
- Kashmiri: نۄش (ks) (nọś)
- Komi-Zyrian: монь (moń)
- Korean: 며느리 (ko) (myeoneuri)
- Ladino: ermuera f, almuera f, ilmuera f, nuera f
- Latin: nurus f, nura
- Lithuanian: marti (lt) f
- Lombard: nöra f, nœura f
- Macedonian: сна́а f (snáa)
- Malay: menantu perempuan, menantu
- Malayalam: മരുമകൾ (marumakaḷ)
- Manx: 'neen 'sy leigh f, ben chleuin f
- Maori: hunaonga, hunōnga
- Marathi: सून f (sūn)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: ше́шке (šéške)
- Western Mari: шешкӹ (šeškÿ), енгӓ (jengä)
- Mongolian: бэр (mn) (ber)
- Navajo: hazháʼáád
- Neapolitan: nora f, nòra f
- Norman: belle-fil'ye f
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) мань (manʹ)
- Northern Sami: mannji
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svigerdatter (no) m or f, sønnekone m or f
- Nynorsk: svigerdotter f, sonekone f, verdotter f
- Occitan: nòra (oc) f
- Odia: ବଧୂ (or) (bôdhu)
- Old Assamese: বহাৰী (boharī)
- Old Church Slavonic: снъха (snŭxa), невѣста f (nevěsta)
- Old English: snoru f
- Ossetian: чындз (ḱynʒ), ностӕ (nostæ) (Digor)
- Pashto: ناوې (ps) f, نږور (ps) f
- Pennsylvania German: Schwiegerdochder f
- Persian: سنه (fa) (sonoh), سنهار (sonhâr), عروس (fa) ('arus)
- Plautdietsch: Schwiadochta f
- Polish: synowa (pl) f, snecha (pl) f (dated)
- Portuguese: nora (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਨੂੰਹ f (nū̃h)
- Romagnol: nöra f
- Romani: bori f
- Romanian: noră (ro) f
- Russian: неве́стка (ru) f (nevéstka) (usually for a mother-in-law), сноха́ (ru) f (snoxá) (for a father-in-law, also)
- Sanskrit: स्नुषा (sa) f (snuṣā)
- Sardinian: nura f
- Scottish Gaelic: bean-mhic f, nighean-chèile f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: снаха f, снаја f
- Roman: snaha (sh) f, snaja (sh) f
- Sicilian: nora (scn) f
- Skolt Sami: mââʹnnj
- Slovak: nevesta (sk) f
- Slovene: snaha (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pśichodna źowka f, syna žeńska f, šwigerźowka f, synowa žeńska f
- Spanish: nuera (es) f
- Swedish: svärdotter (sv) c, sonhustru (sv) c
- Tagalog: babaeng manugang
- Taos: phȉwéna, sə̀oyiʼína
- Tatar: килен (tt) (kilen)
- Telugu: కోడలు (te) (kōḍalu)
- Thai: ลูกสะใภ้ (th) (lûuk-sà-pái)
- Turkish: gelin (tr)
- Udmurt: кен (ken)
- Ukrainian: неві́стка f (nevístka)
- Vietnamese: con dâu, dâu (vi)
- Volapük: lüdaut (vo)
- Welsh: merch-yng-nghyfraith f, gwaudd f, merched yng nghyfraith f pl
- Yiddish: שנור f (shnur)
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