kinship

English

Etymology

From kin +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪnʃɪp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

kinship (countable and uncountable, plural kinships)

1. relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption
2. relation or connection by nature or character
   • 1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774:

     The first of these were the ten engines of class "C8", Nos.290-299, which had a very strong kinship to the C.R. "Carbrooks".

Related terms

• kin
• kith as in kith and kin

Translations

relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption

• Arabic: قَرَابَة f (qarāba)
• Armenian: ազգակցություն (hy) (azgakcʿutʿyun)
• Belarusian: ро́днасць f (ródnascʹ), ро́днасьць f (ródnasʹcʹ), свая́цтва n (svajáctva)
• Bulgarian: ро́дство (bg) n (ródstvo), родни́нство n (rodnínstvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 親屬關係／亲属关系 (qīnshǔ guānxì), 血緣／血缘 (zh) (xuèyuán), 親屬／亲属 (zh) (qīnshǔ)

• Cimbrian: bròintekhot f
• Czech: příbuznost f, příbuzenství n
• Danish: slægtskab n, slægt c
• Dutch: verwantschap (nl) f
• Esperanto: parenceco
• Estonian: sugulussuhted pl
• Finnish: sukulaisuus (fi), sukulaisuussuhde (fi)
• French: parenté (fr) f
• Georgian: ნათესაობა (natesaoba)
• German: Verwandtschaft (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰 f (sibja)
• Greek: συγγένεια (el) f (syngéneia)

  Ancient Greek: συγγένειᾰ f (sungéneia)

• Hungarian: rokonság (hu)
• Italian: parentela (it) f
• Japanese: 血族関係 (けつぞくかんけい, ketsuzoku kankei), 血縁 (ja) (けつえん, ketsuen, けちえん, kechien), 親族 (ja) (しんぞく, shinzoku)
• Korean: 친족 관계(親族關係) (chinjok gwan'gye), 혈연(血緣) (ko) (hyeoryeon), 친족(親族) (ko) (chinjok)
• Macedonian: сродство n (srodstvo)
• Maori: whanaungatanga
• Middle English: kynrede
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slekt m or f

• Persian: خویشاوندی (fa) (xišâvandi), خویشاوندان (fa) (xišâvandân)
• Plains Cree: wahkohtowin, ᐊᐧᐦᑯᐦᑐᐃᐧᐣ
• Polish: pokrewieństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: parentesco (pt) m
• Romanian: înrudire (ro) f, rudenie (ro) f
• Russian: родство́ (ru) n (rodstvó)
• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сро̀дство n

  Roman: sròdstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: príbuzenstvo n
• Slovene: sorodstvo n
• Spanish: parentesco (es) m
• Swedish: släkt (sv) c
• Tajik: хешовандӣ (xešovandī)
• Turkish: akrabalık (tr)
• Ukrainian: спорі́днення n (sporídnennja), спорі́дненість f (sporídnenistʹ)
• Welsh: ach f

relation or connection by nature or character

• Bulgarian: бли́зост (bg) f (blízost), при́лика (bg) f (prílika)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: příbuznost f
• Finnish: yhteisyys (fi), sielunveljeys
• French: parenté (fr) f
• Georgian: მსგავსება (msgavseba)
• German: Verwandtschaftsbeziehung (de) f, Verwandtschaft (de) f
• Italian: parentela (it) f
• Portuguese: parentesco (pt) m
• Russian: схо́дство (ru) n (sxódstvo), бли́зость (ru) f (blízostʹ), подо́бие (ru) n (podóbije)
• Ukrainian: бли́зкість f (blýzkistʹ), поді́бність f (podíbnistʹ)
• Welsh: ach f

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