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Uncle in Different Languages: Usually, uncles are male relatives who are either siblings of the parents or who are married to the parents’ siblings. The term uncle is used to describe a male relative within an extended family. A cousin of a child’s parents can be called an uncle in some cultures and families.
Uncle in European Languages
Translation of word Uncle in almost 42 European languages.
Different Languages | Word Uncle |
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Albanian | dajë |
Basque | osaba |
Belarusian | дзядзька |
Bosnian | ujak |
Bulgarian | чичо |
Catalan | oncle |
Corsican | ziu |
Croatian | ujak |
Czech | strýc |
Danish | onkel |
Dutch | oom |
Estonian | onu |
Finnish | setä |
French | oncle |
Frisian | omke |
Galician | tío |
German | Onkel |
Greek | θείος [theíos] |
Hungarian | nagybácsi |
Icelandic | Frændi |
Irish | uncail |
Italian | zio |
Latvian | tēvocis |
Lithuanian | dėdė |
Luxembourgish | Monni |
Macedonian | чичко |
Maltese | ziju |
Norwegian | onkel |
Polish | wujek |
Portuguese | tio |
Romanian | unchi |
Russian | дядя [dyadya] |
Scots Gaelic | uncail |
Serbian | стриц [stric] |
Slovak | strýko |
Slovenian | stric |
Spanish | tío |
Swedish | farbror |
Tatar | абзый |
Ukrainian | дядько [dyad'ko] |
Welsh | ewythr |
Yiddish | פעטער |
Uncle in Asian Languages
Translation of word Uncle in almost 36 Asian languages.
Different Languages | Word Uncle |
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Armenian | հորեղբայր |
Azerbaijani | əmi |
Bengali | চাচা |
Chinese Simplified | 叔叔 [shūshu] |
Chinese Traditional | 叔叔 [shūshu] |
Georgian | ბიძა [bidza] |
Gujarati | કાકા |
Hindi | चाचा |
Hmong | tus txiv ntxawm |
Japanese | 叔父 |
Kannada | ಮಾವ |
Kazakh | аға |
Khmer | ពូ |
Korean | 삼촌 [samchon] |
Kyrgyz | байке |
Lao | ລຸງ |
Malayalam | അമ്മാവൻ |
Marathi | काका |
Mongolian | авга ах нь |
Myanmar (Burmese) | ဘကြီး |
Nepali | मामा |
Odia | ମାମୁଁ |
Pashto | تره |
Punjabi | ਚਾਚਾ |
Sindhi | چاچو |
Sinhala | මාමා |
Tajik | амак |
Tamil | மாமா |
Telugu | మామయ్య |
Thai | ลุง |
Turkish | amca dayı |
Turkmen | daýy |
Urdu | چچا |
Uyghur | تاغىسى |
Uzbek | amaki |
Vietnamese | Chú |
Uncle in Middle East Languages
Translation of word Uncle in 4 middle eastern languages.
Different Languages | Word Uncle |
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Arabic | اخو الام [akhw al'umi] |
Hebrew | דוֹד |
Kurdish (Kurmanji) | mam |
Persian | دایی |
Uncle in African Languages
Translation of word Uncle in almost 13 African languages.
Different Languages | Word Uncle |
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Afrikaans | oom |
Amharic | አጎት |
Chichewa | amalume |
Hausa | kawun |
Igbo | nwanne nna |
Kinyarwanda | nyirarume |
Sesotho | Malome |
Shona | sekuru |
Somali | adeerkiis |
Swahili | mjomba |
Xhosa | umalume |
Yoruba | arakunrin |
Zulu | umalume |
Uncle in Austronesian Languages
Translation of word Uncle in almost 10 Austronesian languages.
Different Languages | Word Uncle |
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Cebuano | uyoan |
Filipino | tiyuhin |
Hawaiian | ʻanakala |
Indonesian | paman |
Javanese | lik |
Malagasy | rahalahin-drain'i |
Malay | bapa saudara |
Maori | matua keke |
Samoan | tuagane o le aiga |
Sundanese | mamang |
Uncle in Other Foreign Languages
Different Languages | Word Uncle |
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Esperanto | onklo |
Haitian Creole | tonton |
Latin | avunculus |
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