paternal aunt

English

Noun

paternal aunt (plural paternal aunts)

1. the sister or sister-in-law of one's father

Translations

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

the sister of one's father

• Albanian: hallë (sq) f
• Arabic: عَمَّة (ar) f (ʕamma)
• Armenian: հորաքույր (hy) (horakʻuyr)
• Catalan: tia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (father's sister) 姑 (zh) (gū), 姑媽／姑妈 (zh) (gūmā), 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), 婶母 (zh) (shěnmǔ), 嬸嬸／婶婶 (zh) (shěnshen), 婶婶 (zh) (shěnshen)

  Teochew: (father's sister) , , (father's elder brother's wife) , , (father's younger brother's wife) ,

• 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) f
• Hausa: gwaggo
• Hebrew: דּוֹדָה f (dóda)
• Hungarian: nagynéni (hu)
• Icelandic: föðursystir (is) f
• Irish: aintín f, 4th decl.
• Italian: zia (it) f
• Japanese: おば (ja) (oba)
• Korean: 고모 (ko) (gomo)
• Krisa: wini
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

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• Latin: amita (la)
• Meriam: apu
• Navajo: abízhí
• Norwegian: tante (no) m or f, faster (no) m or f
• Persian: عمه (fa) ('amme)
• Polish: ciotka ojczysta (pl) f (blood), stryjenka (pl) f (in-law)
• Portuguese: tia (pt) f
• Russian: тётя (ru) f (tjótja), тётя по отцу́ f (tjótja po otcú), тётя по отцо́вской ли́нии f (tjótja po otcóvskoj línii)
• Scottish Gaelic: piuthar-athar f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тетка f, стрина f, амиџинца f (regional, non-standard)

  Roman: tetka f, strina 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
• Telugu: అత్త (te) (atta)
• Tibetan: ཨ་ནེ (a ne)
• Turkish: hala (tr), yenge (tr) (in-law)
• Urdu: پھپو (phuppo)
• West Frisian: muoike (fy)

See also

• maternal aunt
• maternal uncle
• paternal uncle