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See also: nikâh
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic نِكَاح (nikāḥ, “marriage”).
Noun
[edit]nikah (countable and uncountable, plural nikahs)
- The Islamic marriage ceremony
- 2015 July 29, “The Skype ceremony – the young Tajiks getting married online”, in The Guardian[1]:
- There are no official statistics on how many Tajiks have married via Skype, but we spoke to five couples who said they performed the Islamic wedding ceremony nikah through the video chat service, which they say is becoming even more common in more the country’s rural areas.
Anagrams
[edit]Azerbaijani
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic نِكَاح (nikāḥ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nikah (definite accusative nikahı, plural nikahlar)
Declension
[edit]Declension of nikah | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | nikah |
nikahlar | ||||||
definite accusative | nikahı |
nikahları | ||||||
dative | nikaha |
nikahlara | ||||||
locative | nikahda |
nikahlarda | ||||||
ablative | nikahdan |
nikahlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | nikahın |
nikahların |
Derived terms
[edit]- təknikahlılıq (“monogamy”)
- çoxnikahlılıq (“polygamy”)
- nikahlamaq (“to wed”, transitive)
- nikahlanmaq (“to wed”, reciprocal or intransitive)
- nikahlı (“married”)
Collocations
[edit]marriage
- xoşbəxt nikah ― happy marriage
- vətəndaşlıq nikahı ― civil marriage
- vətəndaş nikahı ― cohabitation
- qanunsuz nikah ― illegitimate marriage
- qeyd edilmiş nikah ― registered marriage
- dini nikah ― religious marriage
- nikahın etibarsızlığı ― invalidity of marriage
- nikah bağlamaq ― to conclude a marriage
- nikaha daxil olmaq ― to enter into marriage
- nikahı pozmaq ― to dissolve the marriage
- nikah ittifaqı ― marital union
- nikah yaşı ― marriage (marriageable) age
- nikah müqaviləsi ― prenuptial agreement
- nikah kəsmək ― to wed (to perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony)
Further reading
[edit]- “nikah” in Obastan.com.
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Malay nikah, from Arabic نِكَاح (nikāḥ).
Noun
[edit]nikah (first-person possessive nikahku, second-person possessive nikahmu, third-person possessive nikahnya)
Usage notes
[edit]In everyday speech, nikah is preferred over kawin, since kawin tends to refer to the mating of non-human animals.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Terms derived from nikah
Further reading
[edit]- “nikah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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