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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From -in-law.
Noun
in-law (plural in-laws)
- (often in the plural) A relative by marriage (or through affinity).
- Synonym: affine
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- Sometimes specifically a parent-in-law of one's child, for which the dedicated terms co-mother-in-law, co-father-in-law are rare.
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Translations
relative by marriage
- Armenian: խնամի (hy) (xnami)
- Azerbaijani: qayın (az), quda (az)
- Cebuano: umagad
- Danish: (in-laws) svigerfamilie c
- Dutch: aangetrouwd familielid, schoonfamilie (nl) pl, aanverwant (nl)
- Faroese: verfólk n
- Finnish: puolison sukulainen
- French: membre de la belle-famille (fr) f
- German: angeheirateter Verwandter, Anverwandter (de), (collective, informal) Schwiegerfamilie (de), (loosely) Schwager (de)
- Greek: (plural) πεθερικά (el) n pl (petheriká)
- Italian: parente acquisito m
- Kapampangan: manuyang
- Kumyk: къайын (qayın)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: хнами (xnamî), xizm (ku) m or f
- Latin: (please verify) politicus relativus m
- Macedonian: сват m (svat)
- Malay: ipar
- Maori: kaireperepe
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: (in-laws) svigerfamilie (no) m
- Nynorsk: (in-laws) svigerfamilie m
- Portuguese: afim (pt) m or f
- Russian: родня́ (со стороны́ му́жа/жены́) f (rodnjá (so storoný múža/žený))
- Spanish: pariente (político) m, familia política f
- Swahili: shemeji (sw), mkwe (sw)
- Swedish: släkting genom giftermål, ingift (sv)
- Tagalog: manugang (tl)
- Tok Pisin: tambu
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parent-in-law of one's child
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