gelin

Meaning

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

gelmek

1. (intransitive) to come, move closer
2. (intransitive) to come, to appear, to manifest
3. (intransitive) to weigh (have a certain weight)
4. (impersonal, intransitive) to seem, to appear
5. (intransitive) to pretend
6. (impersonal) to feel like doing something
7. (intransitive) to visit, to come over
8. (intransitive) to come off; to escape or get off, to come out of a situation without significant harm.
9. (intransitive) to come off, to come across, to feel like, to seem like
10. (intransitive) to arise, to become apparent
11. (slang) to come, to ejaculate

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Concepts

bride

daughter-in-law

daughter in law

fiancée

girlfriend

nuptial

Synonyms

gidelim

gelinle ilgili

düğünle ilgili

Translations

νύφη

Braut

belle-fille

Schwiegertochter

bru

nuora

sposa

mariée

novia

schoondochter

nora

nora

bûk

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ɟeˈlin]

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: كلین

Cognate with Old Turkish: 𐰚𐰠𐰤

Cognate with Azerbaijani: gəlin

Cognate with Turkmen: gelin

Cognate with Kazakh: келін

Cognate with Kyrgyz: келин

Cognate with Uzbek: kelin

In summary

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.