• (America) IPA: /bəˈtɹoʊð/

betroth (betroths, present participle betrothing; past and past participle betrothed)

1. To promise to give in marriage.

   He betrothed his daughter to a distant relative.

   • 1885 — Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado

     We loved each other at once, but she was betrothed to her guardian Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor.

2. To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Deuteronomy 20:7 ↗:

     What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her?

• French: fiancer
• German: verloben
• Italian: fidanzare, promettere in sposa
• Portuguese: prometer
• Russian: обруча́ть
• Spanish: prometer en matrimonio

• French: fiancer
• German: verloben
• Italian: promessa matrimoniale
• Russian: обруча́ться