father-in-law

English

Noun

Wikipedia father-in-law (plural fathers-in-law or father-in-laws)

1. One's spouse's father.
2. (dated) A stepfather.

   1839, Charles Dickens, “IV”, in Nicholas Nickleby, ISBN 1-85326-264-1, page 41:

   `Yes,` replied Snawley. `The fact is, I am not their father, Mr Squeers. I'm only their father-in-law.`

Derived terms

• (uncommon) co-father-in-law

Related terms

• brother-in-law
• daughter-in-law
• mother-in-law
• sister-in-law
• son-in-law

Translations

One's spouse's father

• Afrikaans: skoonpa
• Albanian: vjehërr (sq) m
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: (husband's father) սկեսրայր (hy) (skesrayr), (wife's father) աներ (hy) (aner)
• Aromanian: socru (rup) m
• Asturian: suegru (ast) m
• Basque: aitaginarreba (eu)
• Catalan: sogre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公公 (cmn) (gōnggong) (husband's father), 岳父 (cmn) (yuèfù) (wife's father), 嫜 (cmn) (zhāng) (wife's father)

• Czech: tchán (cs) m
• Danish: svigerfar (da) c
• Dutch: schoonvader (nl) m
• Esperanto: bopatro (eo)
• Estonian: äi (et)
• Ewe: to
• Finnish: appi (fi)
• French: beau-père (fr) m
• Friulian: missêr m
• German: Schwiegervater (de) m
• Gooniyandi: lambadi
• Greek: πεθερός (el) (petherós)
• Hebrew: חָם (kham) m
• Hungarian: após (hu)
• Ido: bopatro (io)
• Indonesian: ayah mertua, bapak mertua
• Interlingua: patre affin
• Irish: athair céile
• Italian: suocero (it) m
• Japanese: 義父 (ja) (gifu), 岳父 (ja) (gakufu) (husband's father), 舅 (しゅうと, shūto)
• Korean: (wife’s father-in-law) 시아버지 (siabeoji); (husband’s father-in-law) 장인어른 (jang-in-eoreun)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: خه‌زور (ku) (xezur)

• Latin: socer (la) m

• Luxembourgish: Schwéierpapp (lb) m
• Macedonian: свекор (mk) (svékor) m, тест (mk) (tést) m
• Malay: bapa mertua (ms), ayah mertua (ms)
• Malayalam: (ammayi appan)
• Maori: hungarei (mi)
• Marathi: सासरा (mr) (sāsarā) m
• Northern Sami: vuohppa
• Occitan: sògre (oc) m
• Old English: swēor (ang) m
• Persian: پدرشوهر (fa) (pedar-šouhar) (husband's father), پدرزن (fa) (pedar-zan) (wife's father)
• Polish: teść (pl) m, (archaic; husband's father) świekr (pl) m
• Portuguese: sogro (pt) m
• Romanian: socru (ro) m
• Russian: (wife’s father-in-law) свёкор (ru) (svjókor) m; (husband’s father-in-law) тесть (ru) (test') m
• Sardinian: socru (sc) m
• Scottish Gaelic: athair-cèile m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свекар (sh) m (husband's father), пунац (sh) m (wife's father)

  Roman: svekar (sh) m (husband's father), punac (sh) m (wife's father)

• Seri: aaquéect ctam (of a male)
• Sicilian: soggiru (scn) m
• Slovak: svokor m
• Slovene: tast (sl) m
• Spanish: suegro (es) m
• Swahili: babamkwe (sw)
• Swedish: svärfar (sv) c
• Tamil: மாமனார் (ta) (maamaNaar)
• Taos: tǫ̏ména
• Tupinambá: menduba (wife’s father-in-law); atu'uba (t-) (husband’s father-in-law)
• Turkish: kaynata (tr), kayınbaba (tr), kayınpeder (tr)
• Vietnamese: cha chồng (vi), cha vợ (vi)
• Volapük: lüfat (vo)
• Yiddish: מחותּן (yi) (mekhutn) m