paternal aunt

English

Noun

paternal aunt (plural paternal aunts)

A sister of someone’s father.
The wife of a sibling of someone’s father.

Translations

Several languages distinguish between blood paternal aunts (someone's father's sister) and in-law paternal aunts (someone's father's sister-in-law).

the sister or sister-in-law of someone's father

Albanian: hallë (sq) f
Arabic: عَمَّة‎ (ar) f (ʿamma)
Armenian: հորաքույր (hy) (horakʿuyr)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܡܬܵܐ‎ f (ʿamtā)
Azerbaijani: bibi (az), mama (az) (dialectal)
Bengali: ফুফু (bn) f (phuphu) (father's sister), চাচী f (cacī) (father's brother's wife)
Catalan: tia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: (father's sister) 姑 (zh) (gū), 姑媽／姑妈 (zh) (gūmā), 姑姑 (zh) (gūgu), 姑母 (zh) (gūmǔ), (father’s elder brother’s wife) 伯母 (zh) (bómǔ), (father’s younger brother’s wife) 叔母 (zh) (shúmǔ), 嬸母／婶母 (zh) (shěnmǔ), 嬸嬸／婶婶 (zh) (shěnshen)
Teochew: (father's sister) 阿姑 (a1 gou1), 姑 (gou1), (father's elder brother's wife) 阿姆 (a1 m2), 姆 (m2), (father's younger brother's wife) 阿嬸 (a1 sim2), 嬸 (sim2)
Czech: teta (cs) f
Danish: faster (da) c (blood paternal aunt), tante (da) c (in-law paternal aunt, informal)
Dutch: tante (nl) f
Esperanto: onklino (eo)
Estonian: tädi (et)
Ewe: tasi, te
Finnish: täti (fi), isän sisko; sedän vaimo (in-law)
French: tante (fr) f, tatie (fr) f (informal)
Georgian: მამიდა (ka) (mamida)
German: Tante (de) f väterlicherseits
Greek: θεία (el) f (theía); θεια (el) f (theia), θείτσα (el) f (theítsa) (affectionate terms but also pejoratives)
Hausa: gwaggo
Hebrew: דּוֹדָה‎ f (dóda)
Hungarian: apai (ágról való) nagynéni
Icelandic: föðursystir (is) f
Irish: aintín f
Italian: zia (it) f
Japanese: おば (ja) (oba)
Kashmiri: پۄپھ‎ (ks) (pọph) (father's sister), پیٚچھَنؠ‎ (ks) (pechan') (father’s brother’s wife)
Komo: bbasʉma
Korean: 고모 (ko) (gomo)
Krisa: wini
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پوور‎ (ku) (pûr)
Northern Kurdish: met (ku)
Latin: amita (la)
Macedonian: тетка (mk) f (tetka), стрина f (strina), нина f (nina), тетка по татко f (tetka po tatko)
Meriam: apu
Navajo: abízhí
Northern Sami: siessá
Norwegian: tante (no) m or f, faster (no) m or f
Nupe: macinmà
Pashto: عمه‎ (ps) f (amma)
Persian: عمه‎ (fa) ('amme)
Polish: ciotka ojczysta (pl) f (blood), stryjenka (pl) f (in-law)
Portuguese: tia (pt) f
Romanian: mătușă după tată f
Russian: тётя (ru) f (tjótja), тётя по отцу́ f (tjótja po otcú), тётя по отцо́вской ли́нии f (tjótja po otcóvskoj línii)
Sami:
Lule Sami: siessá
Sanskrit: पितृव्या f (pitṛvyā)
Scottish Gaelic: piuthar-athar f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тетка f, стрина f, амиџинца f (regional, non-standard)
Roman: tetka (sh) f, strina (sh) f, amidžinca f (regional, non-standard)
Seri: aac
Slovene: teta (sl) f
Somali: eedo (so)
Spanish: tía (es) f
Swahili: shangazi (sw)
Swedish: faster (sv) c, tant (sv) c
Tamil: அத்தை (ta) (attai); (in-law) பெரியம்மா (ta) (periyammā) (elder), சித்தி (ta) (citti) (younger)
Taos: į̀ęmę’éna
Tày: a, à (blood paternal aunt, younger); a lùa (in-law paternal aunt, younger)
Telugu: అత్త (te) (atta)
Tibetan: ཨ་ནེ (a ne)
Turkish: hala (tr), yenge (tr) (in-law)
Urdu: پھپو‎ (phuppo)
West Frisian: muoike (fy)
Zazaki: ’em

paternal aunt

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