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kalıŋ

Meaning:
dowry, bride price, money or estate that a woman brings to her groom

kalıŋ denotes property or money given by the groomā€™s family to the brideā€™s family as part of the marriage arrangement. The variants kalın and kalım continue the same word, with different developments of the final nasal.

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen galyň
Turkish (Azerbaijan) kalım
Turkish (TĆ¼rkiye) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Salar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Gagauz kalım
Crimean No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uyghur No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uzbek qalin
Kazakh kalıŋ
Nogai qalım
Siberian Tatar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kyrgyz kalıŋ
Altai qalım
Alan qalın
Kumyk qalım
Tatar kalım
Bashkir qalım
Tıva No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Khakas xalım
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Khalaj No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Chuvash No cognate has been entered for this language yet.

Examples

Boyla Qutlug Yargan
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Translations

German:
Mitgift, Brautpreis; Brautgabe
Russian:
ŠæрŠøŠ“Š°Š½Š¾Šµ Š“Š»Ń Š½ŠµŠ²ŠµŃŃ‚Ń‹, ŠŗŠ°Š»Ń‹Š¼
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
kalım, başlıq pulu
Turkish (TĆ¼rkiye):
Ƨeyiz, başlık parası
Turkmen:
gelinlik

  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 622
    1 kalıŋ ā€˜bride priceā€™, that is a sum of money paid by a bridegroom to the family of his intended bride; cf. kabın. S.i.a.m.l.g. except SE, the modern forms varying between kalıŋ, kalım (from which the Russian word kalym is derived), and kalın. L.-w. in Pe. etc., Doerfer III 1407. (Uyğ. ix kızımın kalıŋsız bėrtim ā€˜I gave my daughters (in marriage) without (demanding) a bride priceā€™ Suci 7): Xak. xi kalıŋ al-mahr ā€˜bride priceā€™ Kaş. III 371 (prov.; verse): Ƈağ. xv ff. kalın ā€˜a sum of money (mālÄ«) which a suitor sends to the family of his (intended) bride when seeking her hand in marriageā€™ San. 276r. 14: Kıp. xiii mahruā€™l-zawca kalın Hou. 27, 19: xv kalın al-mahr Ä°d. 74: xv ditto Tuh. 35b. 2: Osm. xiv to xvi kalıŋ ā€˜bride priceā€™; in several texts TTS I 406; II 568; III 398; IV 456.