Uncle
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English
Noun
uncle, plural uncles
- a brother of someone's father (paternal uncle)
- a brother of someone's mother (maternal uncle)
- a brother-in-law of someone's father
- a brother-in-law of someone's mother
Antonyms
Related terms
- grand-aunt
- grand-uncle
- great aunt
- great uncle
Translations
- Breton: eontr m (1,2), eontr da-heul (3,4), tonton m child's language
- Bulgarian: чичо m (1), вуйчо m (2)
- Catalan: [1,2,3,4] tiu m (ca); oncle m (ca)
- Chinese Characters: 叔 (1: younger brother), 尗 (1: younger brother), 伯 (1: elder brother)
- Chinese: 伯父
- Czech: strýc (1, 2), strýc z druhého kolena (3, 4) m
- Dutch: oom m, nonkel m (in Flanders), vaderlijke oom (1), moeder oom (2)
- Esperanto: onklo
- Finnish: setä (1), eno (2)
- French: oncle m, tonton m (familiar), oncle paternel (1), oncle maternel (2)
- Frisian: omke m
- German: Onkel m (de)
- Greek: θείος (theíos) (1,2,3,4)
- Guaraní: tuty (2)
- Hebrew: דּוֹד m (1,2,3,4)
- Indonesian: paman, oom
- Interlingua: oncle, avunculo (1,2,3,4)
- Irish; uncail m4
- Italian: zio m, zio paterno (1), zio materno (2)
- Japanese: 叔父さん (おじさん, ojisan)
- Latin: patruus (1), avunculus (2), patruus politicus (3), avunculus politicus (4)
- Pitjantjatjara: mama maḻatja (father's younger brother); mama puḻka (father's older brother); kamuṟu (mother's brother); kulypal, kulypalpa (mother's brother)
- Polish: wuj m, wujek m
- Portuguese: tio m (1,2,3,4); tio paterno (1,3); tio materno (2,4)
- Romanian: unchi m
- Russian: дядя (dyadya)
- Slovak: strýc, strýko (1), ujo, učok (2) m, svák (3, 4) m
- Spanish: tío m (1,2), tío paterno (1), tío materno (2)
- Swedish: farbror (1), morbror (2), onkel
- Tupinambá: uba (t-, t-) (1), tutyra (2)
- Turkish: amca (1), dayı (2), enişte (3,4)
