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English
Noun
maternal uncle (plural maternal uncles)
- The brother or brother-in-law of one’s mother. (This entry is a translation hub.)
1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 42:The social organization of the Trobriand Islanders of Melane-
sia is characterized by matrilineal descent, free and familiar rela-
tions between father and son, and a marked antagonism between
maternal uncle and nephew.31 On the other hand, the patrilineal
Cherkess of the Caucasus place the hostility between father and
son, while the maternal uncle assists his nephew and gives him a
horse when he marries.32
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Translations
brother of one's mother
- Albanian: dajë (sq); xhaxha (mother's brother-in-law)
- Arabic: خَال (ar) m (ḵāl)
- Armenian: քեռի (hy) (kʻeṙi), (rare) մորեղբայր (hy) (moreġbayr)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܵܠܵܐ m (ḥālā)
- Bengali: মামা (bn) m (mama), খালু (bn) m (khalu) (mother's brother-in-law)
- Bulgarian: вуйчо (bg) m (vujčo)
- Chichewa: malume
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 舅父 (zh) (jiùfù), 舅舅 (zh) (jiùjiu), 舅父 (zh) (jiùfù), 舅舅 (zh) (jiùjiu), 姨父 (zh) (yífù), 姨丈 (zh) (yízhàng) (mother's brother-in-law)
- Teochew: 阿舅 (a1 gu6), 舅 (gu6), 阿丈 (a1 dion6), 丈 (dion6) (mother's brother-in-law)
- Crimean Tatar: dayı
- Czech: ujec (cs) m
- Danish: morbror (da) c (blood maternal uncle), onkel (da) c (in-law maternal uncle / informal)
- Dutch: oom (nl) m, (Flemish) nonkel (nl) m
- Ewe: wɔfa
- Faroese: morbróðir m, móðurbróðir m, mammubeiggi m
- Finnish: eno (fi); enopuoli (mother's brother-in-law)
- French: oncle maternel m
- Georgian: ბიძა დედის მხრიდან (biʒa dedis mxridan)
- German: Oheim (de) m, (rare) Onkel (de) m
- Greek: θείος (el) m (theíos)
- Greenlandic: angak
- Hausa: rafani, kawu
- Hebrew: דּוֹד (dod) m
- Hindi: मामा (hi) m (māmā)
- Hungarian: anyai (ágról való) nagybácsi
- Icelandic: móðurbróðir (is) m
- Interlingua: oncle
- Italian: zio (it) m, zio materno m
- Kabyle: zizi m
- Kashmiri: مام (ks) (mām) (mother's brother), ماسُو (ks) (māsuv) (mother's brother-in-law)
- Korean: 외삼촌 (ko) (oesamchon)
- Krisa: wini
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: خاڵ (ckb) (xall)
- Northern Kurdish: xal (ku)
- Latin: avunculus (la) m
- Macedonian: вујко m (vujko)
- Malayalam: അമ്മാവന് (ammāvaṉ)
- Manx: braar mayrey m
- Maore Comorian: zama
- Marathi: मामा (mr) m (māmā)
- Nupe: mmà
- Old English: ēam m
- Old Irish: amnair m
- Ottoman Turkish: دایی (dayı)
- Pashto: ماما (ps) m
- Persian: دایی (fa) (dâ'i)
- Pitjantjatjara: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: wuj (pl) m, wujek (pl) m
- Portuguese: tio (pt), tio materno (pt)
- Quechua: kaka, kaku
- Romanian: unchi (ro) m, unchi după mamă m
- Russian: дя́дя (ru) m (djádja), дя́дя по ма́тери m (djádja po máteri), дя́дя по матери́нской ли́нии m (djádja po materínskoj línii)
- Sanskrit: मातुल (sa) m (mātula)
- Scots: mither-brither, eme
- Scottish Gaelic: bràthair-màthar m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у̏ја̄к m, да̀иџа m (regional, non-standard); (mother's brother-in-law) те́так m, течо m (regional, non-standard)
- Roman: ȕjāk (sh) m, dàidža (sh) m (regional, non-standard); (mother's brother-in-law) tétak (sh) m, tečo m (regional, non-standard)
- Sinhalese: මාමා (māmā)
- Slovene: stric (sl) m, dundo m
- Somali: abti
- Spanish: tío (es) m, tío materno m
- Swahili: mjomba (sw)
- Swedish: morbror (sv) c, onkel (sv) c; mor (sv)s svåger (sv) c, ingift (sv) morbror (sv) c
- Tamil: மாமா (ta) (māmā), பெரியப்ப (periyappa) (mother’s elder brother-in-law), சிதப்ப (citappa) (mother’s younger brother-in-law)
- Taos: mį̏mína
- Telugu: మామ (te) (māma)
- Thai: ลุง (th) (lung) (mother’s elder brother), น้า (th) (náa) (mother’s younger brother)
- Tibetan: ཨ་ཞང (a zhang)
- Turkish: dayı (tr), enişte (tr) (mother's brother-in-law)
- Vietnamese: cậu (vi) (for both elder and younger than mother, mostly for southerners; for northerners bác (vi) is for the elder one, chú (vi) for the younger one)
- West Frisian: omke m
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