drahoma
Meaning
property or payment given by a wife to a husband at the time of marriage, dowry.
Etymology
In summary
From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (drahoma), from Greek τράχωμα (tráchoma, “dowry given in money”), from Byzantine Greek τραχύ (trakhú, “trachy, a kind of Byzantine silver coin”, literally “rough, eneven”), neuter of τραχύς (trakhús, “rough, eneven”), referring to the concavity of the coins.
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