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English
Noun
maternal aunt (plural maternal aunts) (This entry is a translation hub.)
- An aunt on one's mother's side of the family, including both
- A sister of one's mother.
- A sister-in-law of one's mother; the wife or ex-wife of a maternal uncle.
- (imprecise) A similar great aunt, etc.
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Translations
one's mother's sister
- Arabic: خَالَة (ar) f (ḵāla)
- Armenian: մորաքույր (hy) (morakʻuyr)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܵܠܬܵܐ f (ḥāltā)
- Azerbaijani: xala (az)
- Bengali: খালা (bn) (khala), মই (bn) (moi)
- Catalan: tia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 姨媽／姨妈 (yue) (ji4 maa1) (mother's elder sister), 阿姨 (aa3 ji4-1) (mother's younger sister), 姨姨 (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); (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: 阿姨 (a1 i5), 姨 (i5)
- 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 (he) 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)
- Krisa: (elder) moni baʼ, (younger) moni pung
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پوور (ckb) (pûr)
- Northern Kurdish: xalet (ku)
- Latin: matertera (la)
- Macedonian: тетка (mk) f (tetka), тетка по мајка f (tetka po majka)
- Malayalam: അമ്മായി (ml) (ammāyi)
- Marathi: माउशी f (māuśī), मावशी (mr) f (māvśī)
- Navajo: amáyázhí
- Norwegian: tante (no) m or f, moster m or f
- Nupe: ǹnági
- 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, teta (sh) f (Croatia)
- 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)
- Urdu: خالَہ f (xāla), ماسی f (māsī) (uncommon)
- West Frisian: muoike (fy) c
- Zazaki: xal (diq)
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one's mother's sister-in-law