better half
Meaning
- A person's spouse or lover, most commonly a man's wife.
- (archaic) A very close friend or companion.
Translations
صاحِب شرِيك حياة بعْل بعْلة حلِيل قرِين صاحِبة قرِينة شرِيكة حياة
boda زَوْجEtymology
Ultimately from such Latin poetic phrases as animae dīmidium meae (“half of my soul”) (Horace writing about Virgil), when it instead referred to a close friend (compare soulmate). First written instance of it meaning “spouse” was in 1580 by Sir Philip Sidney.
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