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

• (rare) 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 Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: (husband's father) սկեսրայր (hy) (skesrayr), (wife's father) աներ (hy) (aner) Basque: aitaginarreba (eu) Chinese: 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. 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. Malayalam: (ammayi appan) Northern Sami: vuohppa 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. 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) Slovak: svokor m. Slovene: tast (sl) m. Spanish: suegro (es) m. Swahili: babamkwe (sw) 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) Volapük: lüfat (vo)