dowry - Meaning in Hindi

Meaning of dowry in Hindi

Noun

• दहेज
• यौतक
• कौशल
• प्रतिभा
• योग्यता
• यौतुक

dowry Definition

Noun

• property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.

dowry Example

• Elizabeth's dowry was to be $45,000 in diamonds ( हीरों में एलिजाबेथ का दहेज $४५,००० होना था )
• In that case the dowry must be returned to the wife. ( ऐसे में दहेज पत्नी को लौटाना होगा। )
• If she thus bring a good dowry to her husband, he does not care to inquire, or is not sensitive, about the mode in which it was acquired. ( यदि वह इस प्रकार अपने पति के लिए एक अच्छा दहेज लाती है, तो वह पूछताछ करने की परवाह नहीं करता है, या उस तरीके के बारे में संवेदनशील नहीं है जिसमें इसे प्राप्त किया गया था। )
• The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost. ( प्रतीक, और मेरा दहेज बिस्तर, बाकी सब खो गया है। )

More Sentence

• But the purchase of the woman by dowry does not extinguish all claim on her by her family.
• Settlements and dowry are discussed, and finally the girl herself is consulted.
• Whatever he offers for dowry and for presents to me, the white man will give double.
• The final compact is by dowry money, the most of which must be paid in advance.
• If either of the parents were dead, the dowry was given to the nearest relative.
• I heard gossiping in the crowd about the bride's wealth—about her dowry of five hundred thousand rubles—so and so much for pocket money.
• A large dowry was a status symbol in the village and many girls tried to accumulate their "treasures" to impress their prospective husbands.
• How often she went once around the clock without a word, her head in her books, her saving grace for suitability, the mansion held up as dowry.
• I know all the ins and outs of the business, and they shall give you the whole dowry, and you'll be a wealthy man with a career before you !.
• He got 10 or 12 cattle beasts, and he paid them for the dowry, and everyone went [inhales sharply] wow, even the best we've ever heard of is three.
• Did you know, Ilusha, he is just married, got a dowry of a thousand roubles, and his bride's a regular fright of the first rank and the last degree.
• But with the young lady there was to come as dowry a house, and though it was a nasty little wooden house of one storey, yet it was property of a kind.
• The best of it is, that it will be a little fortune to the keeper, and a dowry to his weans.
• The daughter was counting up her dowry of linen and wool, and a maid was working in the kitchen.
• The American is insulted if mention of dowry is made in his wedding arrangements.
• Anna Mikhaylovna, who often visited the Karagins, while playing cards with the mother made careful inquiries as to Julie's dowry (she was to have two estates in Penza and the Nizhegorod forests).
• He did not know at all how much he had, what his debts amounted to, or what dowry he could give Vera.
• The dowry might include real estate, but generally consisted of personal effects and household furniture.