maternal uncle

maternal uncle

English

Noun

maternal uncle (plural maternal uncles)

1. The brother or brother-in-law of one’s mother.
   • 1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 42:

     The social organization of the Trobriand Islanders of Melane-
     sia is characterized by matrilineal descent, free and familiar rela-
     tions between father and son, and a marked antagonism between
     maternal uncle and nephew.³¹ On the other hand, the patrilineal
     Cherkess of the Caucasus place the hostility between father and
     son, while the maternal uncle assists his nephew and gives him a
     horse when he marries.³²

Related terms

• maternal aunt
• paternal uncle

Translations

brother of one's mother

Albanian: dajë (sq); xhaxha (mother's brother-in-law) Arabic: خَال‎ (ar) m (ḵāl) Armenian: քեռի (hy) (kʿeṙi), (rare) մորեղբայր (hy) (morełbayr) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܵܠܵܐ‎ m (ḥālā) Bengali: মামা (bn) m (mama) (mother's brother), খালু (bn) m (khalu) (mother's brother-in-law) Bulgarian: вуйчо (bg) m (vujčo) Chichewa: malume Chinese: Mandarin: 舅父 (zh) (jiùfù), 舅舅 (zh) (jiùjiu), 舅父 (zh) (jiùfù), 舅舅 (zh) (jiùjiu), 姨父 (zh) (yífù), 姨丈 (zh) (yízhàng) (mother's brother-in-law) Teochew: 阿舅 (a1 gu6), 舅 (gu6), 阿丈 (a1 dion6), 丈 (dion6) (mother's brother-in-law) Crimean Tatar: dayı Czech: ujec (cs) m Danish: morbror (da) c (blood maternal uncle), onkel (da) c (in-law maternal uncle / informal) Dutch: oom (nl) m, (Flemish) nonkel (nl) m Ewe: wɔfa Faroese: morbróðir m, móðurbróðir m, mammubeiggi m Finnish: eno (fi); enopuoli (mother's brother-in-law) French: oncle maternel m Georgian: ბიძა დედის მხრიდან (biʒa dedis mxridan) German: Oheim (de) m, (rare) Onkel (de) m Greek: θείος (el) m (theíos) Greenlandic: angak Hausa: rafani, kawu Hebrew: דּוֹד (dod) m Hindi: मामा (hi) m (māmā) Hungarian: anyai (ágról való) nagybácsi Icelandic: móðurbróðir (is) m Interlingua: oncle Italian: zio (it) m, zio materno m Kabyle: zizi m Kashmiri: مام‎ (ks) (mām) (mother's brother), ماسُو‎ (ks) (māsuv) (mother's brother-in-law) Korean: 외삼촌 (ko) (oesamchon) Krisa: wini Kurdish: Central Kurdish: خاڵ‎ (xall) Northern Kurdish: xal (ku) Latin: avunculus (la) m Macedonian: вујко m (vujko) Malayalam: അമ്മാവൻ (ammāvaṉ) Manx: braar mayrey m Maore Comorian: zama Marathi: मामा (mr) m (māmā) Nupe: mmà Old English: ēam m Old Irish: amnair m Ottoman Turkish: دایی‎ (dayı) Pashto: ماما‎ (ps) m Persian: دایی‎ (fa) (dâ'i) Pitjantjatjara: please add this translation if you can Polish: wuj (pl) m, wujek (pl) m Portuguese: tio (pt), tio materno (pt) Quechua: kaka, kaku Romanian: unchi (ro) m, unchi după mamă m Russian: дя́дя (ru) m (djádja), дя́дя по ма́тери m (djádja po máteri), дя́дя по матери́нской ли́нии m (djádja po materínskoj línii) Sanskrit: मातुल (sa) m (mātula) Scots: mither-brither, eme Scottish Gaelic: bràthair-màthar m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: у̏ја̄к m, да̀иџа m (regional, non-standard); (mother's brother-in-law) те́так m, течо m (regional, non-standard) Roman: ȕjāk (sh) m, dàidža (sh) m (regional, non-standard); (mother's brother-in-law) tétak (sh) m, tečo m (regional, non-standard) Sinhalese: මාමා (māmā) Slovene: stric (sl) m, dundo m Somali: abti Spanish: tío (es) m, tío materno m Swahili: mjomba (sw) Swedish: morbror (sv) c, onkel (sv) c; mor (sv)s svåger (sv) c, ingift (sv) morbror (sv) c Tamil: மாமா (ta) (māmā), பெரியப்ப (periyappa) (mother’s elder brother-in-law), சிதப்ப (citappa) (mother’s younger brother-in-law) Taos: mį̏mína Telugu: మామ (te) (māma) Thai: ลุง (th) (lung) (mother’s elder brother), น้า (th) (náa) (mother’s younger brother) Tibetan: ཨ་ཞང (a zhang) Turkish: dayı (tr), enişte (tr) (mother's brother-in-law) Vietnamese: cậu (vi) (for both elder and younger than mother, mostly for southerners; for northerners bác (vi) is for the elder one, chú (vi) for the younger one) West Frisian: omke m

See also

• uterine nephew