maternal aunt

English

Noun

maternal aunt (plural maternal aunts)

1. An aunt on one's mother's side of the family, including both
   1. A sister of one's mother.
   2. A sister-in-law of one's mother; the wife or ex-wife of a maternal uncle.
2. (imprecise) A similar great aunt, etc.

Coordinate terms

• maternal uncle
• paternal aunt, paternal uncle

Translations

one's mother's sister

• Arabic: خَالَة (ar) f (ḵāla)
• Armenian: մորաքույր (hy) (morakʻuyr)
• Azerbaijani: xala (az)
• Bengali: খালা (khala), মই (bn) (moi)
• Catalan: tia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 姨媽／姨妈 (zh) (yímā), 姨妈 (zh) (ji4 maa1) (mother's elder sister), 阿姨 (zh) (aa3 ji4-1) (mother's younger sister), 姨姨 (zh) (ji4-1 ji4-1) (mother's younger sister)

  Mandarin: (any age, formal) 姨母 (zh) (yímǔ); (any age, informal, affectionate) 阿姨 (zh) (āyí); (married, informal) 姨媽／姨妈 (zh) (yímā), 姨妈 (zh) (yímā); (mother's eldest sister, if older than her) 大姨 (zh) (dàyí); (middle daughters in mother's family in numerical rank following eldest) 二姨 (èr yí), etc.; (mother's youngest sister, if younger than her) 小姨 (zh) (xiǎoyí)

  Teochew: ,

• Czech: teta (cs) f
• Danish: moster (da) c (blood maternal aunt), tante (da) c (in-law maternal aunt / informal)
• Dutch: tante (nl) f
• Esperanto: onklino (eo)
• Ewe: (elder) dagã, nɔgã; (younger) daɖia, nɔɖi
• Faroese: mostir f
• Finnish: täti (fi), äidin sisko
• French: tante (fr) f; (informal) tatie f
• Georgian: დეიდა (ka) (deida)
• German: Tante mütterlicherseits f
• Hebrew: דּוֹדָה f (dóda)
• Hindi: मौसी (hi) (mausī)
• Hungarian: anyai (ágról való) nagynéni
• Icelandic: móðursystir (is) f
• Irish: aintín f
• Italian: zia (it) f
• Japanese: おば (ja) (oba)
• Kashmiri: ماس (ks) (mās)
• Korean: 이모 (ko) (imo)
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• Krisa: (elder) moni baʼ, (younger) moni pung
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پوور (ckb) (pûr)

  Northern Kurdish: xalet (ku)

• Latin: matertera (la)
• Malayalam: അമ്മായി (ml) (ammāyi)
• Marathi: माउशी f (māuśī), मावशी (mr) f (māvśī)
• Navajo: amáyázhí
• Norwegian: tante (no) m or f, moster m or f
• Persian: خاله (fa) (xâle)
• Polish: ciotka macierzysta (pl) f
• Portuguese: tia (pt) f
• Romanian: mătușă după mamă f
• Russian: тётя (ru) f (tjótja), тётя по ма́тери f (tjótja po máteri), тётя по матери́нской ли́нии f (tjótja po materínskoj línii)
• Scottish Gaelic: piuthar-màthar f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: те̏тка f

  Roman: tȅtka (sh) f

• Slovak: teta (sk) f
• Slovene: teta (sl) f
• Spanish: tía (es) f
• Swedish: moster (sv) c
• Tamil: (elder) ^{(please verify)} Periy'yamma, (younger) ^{(please verify)} Chi'thi
• Taos: kàyúna
• Telugu: పిన్ని (te) (pinni), పెదమ్మ (te) (pedamma)
• Tibetan: སྲུ་མོ (sru mo)
• Turkish: teyze (tr)
• Turoyo: ܚܘܠܬܳܐ (ḥulto)
• West Frisian: muoike (fy) c
• Zazaki: xal (diq)

one's mother's sister-in-law

• Armenian: քեռակին (hy) (kʻeṙakin)
• Bengali: মামী (mamī), মামানী (mamanī)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 舅母 (zh) (kau5 mou5), 妗母 (zh) (kam5 mou5)

  Mandarin: 舅母 (zh) (jiùmu), (colloquial) 舅媽／舅妈 (zh) (jiùmā), 舅妈 (zh) (jiùmā), (colloquial) 妗母 (zh) (jìnmǔ)

  Teochew: a1-gim6 (in-law)

• Danish: tante (da)
• Finnish: enon vaimo
• Hindi: मामी (hi) (māmī)
• Kashmiri: مامَنؠ (ks) (māman')
• Polish: wujenka (pl) f
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• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ујна f, (regional) даиџинца f

  Roman: ujna (sh) f, (regional) daidžinca f

• Swedish: tant (sv) c
• Tamil: मामी (regional)
• Telugu: అత్త (te) (atta)
• Turkish: yenge (tr)