gelin

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A woman dressed up and prepared for her own wedding or who has just married; a bride.
2. A woman who has joined a family through marriage; a daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or niece-in-law etc. depending on the speaker's perspective.

Verb

second-person plural imperative of gelmek

Met koppelteken als

ge‧lin

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

[ɟeˈlin]

Etymologie (Engels)

From Ottoman Turkish كلین (gelin, “bride, daughter in law”), from Proto-Turkic *kẹlin (“bride, daughter-in-law”), from Proto-Turkic *kẹl- (“to come”) with the suffix Proto-Turkic *-in (“derives nouns from intransitive verbs”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰠𐰤 (kl²n²), Azerbaijani gəlin, Turkmen gelin, Kazakh келін (kelın), Kyrgyz келин (kelin), Uzbek kelin.