nikah

• nikaah

From Arabic نِكَاح‎ (nikāḥ, “marriage”).

nikah (countable and uncountable, plural nikahs)

1. The Islamic marriage ceremony
   • 2015 July 29, “The Skype ceremony – the young Tajiks getting married online”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

• Nakhi, ḳinah

From Arabic نِكَاح‎ (nikāḥ).

nikah (plural nikah-nikah, first-person possessive nikahku, second-person possessive nikahmu, third-person possessive nikahnya)

1. Islamic marriage
2. marriage (in general)

In everyday speech, nikah is more preferred than kawin since kawin is often referred to animal mating.

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