paternal aunt

English

Noun

paternal aunt (plural paternal aunts) (This entry is a translation hub.)

1. A sister of someone’s father.
2. The wife of a sibling of someone’s father.

Translations

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

the sister or sister-in-law of someone's father

• Albanian: hallë (sq) f
• Arabic: عَمَّة (ar) f (ʕamma)
• Armenian: հորաքույր (hy) (horakʻuyr)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܡܬܵܐ f (ʿamtā)
• Azerbaijani: bibi (az), mama (az) (dialectal)
• Bengali: ফুফু (bn) f (phuphu) (father's sister), চাচী f (caci) (father's brother's wife)
• Catalan: tia (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

  Teochew: (father's sister) 阿姑 (a¹ gou¹), 姑 (gou¹), (father's elder brother's wife) 阿姆 (a¹ m²), 姆 (m²), (father's younger brother's wife) 阿嬸／阿婶 (a¹ sim²), 嬸／婶 (sim²)

• 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)
• Hausa: gwaggo
• Hebrew: דּוֹדָה (he) f (dóda)
• Hungarian: apai (ágról való) nagynéni
• Icelandic: föðursystir (is) f
• Irish: aintín f
• Italian: zia (it) f
• Japanese: おば (ja) (oba)
• Kashmiri: پۄپھ (ks) (pọph) (father's sister), پیٚچھَنؠ (ks) (pechan') (father’s brother’s wife)
• Komo: bbasʉma
• Korean: 고모 (ko) (gomo)
• Krisa: wini
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پوور (ckb) (pûr)

  Northern Kurdish: met (ku)

• Latin: amita (la), thia f
• Macedonian: тетка (mk) f (tetka), стрина f (strina), нина f (nina), тетка по татко f (tetka po tatko)
• Meriam: apu
• Navajo: abízhí
• Northern Sami: siessá
• Norwegian: tante (no) m or f, faster (no) m or f
• Nupe: macinmà
• Pashto: عمه (ps) f (amma)
• Persian: عمه (fa) ('amme)
• Polish: ciotka ojczysta (pl) f (blood), stryjenka (pl) f (in-law)
• Portuguese: tia (pt) f
• Romanian: mătușă după tată f
• Russian: тётя (ru) f (tjótja), тётя по отцу́ f (tjótja po otcú), тётя по отцо́вской ли́нии f (tjótja po otcóvskoj línii)
• Sami:

  Lule Sami: siessá

• Sanskrit: पितृव्या f (pitṛvyā)
• Scottish Gaelic: piuthar-athar f
• Serbo-Croatian:

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

  Roman: tetka (sh) f, strina (sh) 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: į̀ęmęʼéna
• Tày: a, à (blood paternal aunt, younger); a lùa (in-law paternal aunt, younger)
• Telugu: అత్త (te) (atta)
• Tibetan: ཨ་ནེ (a ne)
• Turkish: hala (tr), yenge (tr) (in-law)
• Urdu: پھپو (phuppo)
• West Frisian: muoike (fy)
• Zazaki: ’em

See also

• maternal aunt
• maternal uncle
• paternal uncle