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aunt

noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • änt
  • /ɑːnt/
  • rhymes with -ɑːnt
  • homophone: aren't (some non-rhotic accents)
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • ănt
  • /ænt/
  • rhymes with -ænt
  • homophone: ant
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Scotland: /ant/
  • Scotland: [änt]
  • New-England: ônt
  • New-England: /ɔnt/
  • rhymes with -ɔːnt
  • ŭnt African-American Vernacular
  • /ʌnt/ African-American Vernacular
  • rhymes with -ʌnt
  • Southern-US: ānt
  • Southern-US: /eɪnt/
  • rhymes with -eɪnt
  • homophone: ain't
  • CMU ARPABET: AE1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: AO1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: endearing

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Any elderly woman.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A procuress or bawd.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: auntie, aunty

Antonyms: uncle

Broader terms: kinswoman

Narrower terms: great-aunt, grandaunt, maiden aunt

History

Etymology

From Middle English aunte, from Anglo-Norman aunte, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“father's sister”). Displaced native Middle English modrie (“aunt”) (from Old English mōdriġe (“maternal aunt”); compare Old English faþu, faþe (“paternal aunt”)). Notes on pronunciation and spelling The digraph ⟨au⟩ representing /æ ~ ɑː/ (rather than /ɔː/) is irregular. It likely reflects a development of Middle English /au̯/ to [aː~æː] before /m n/ in some varieties of Early Modern English, which later came to be identified with either /æ/ or [æː] from pre-fricative lengthening (in the latter case, creating a phoneme /æː/; this is the basis of the bath lexical set). Such pronunciations historically competed with more learned ones where /au̯/ underwent its normal development to /ɔː/, with the standard language eventually adopting /æ ~ ɑː/ in words that came to be spelt with ⟨a⟩ and /ɔː/ in those which came to be spelt with ⟨au⟩ except in this word. However, dialects may have /æ/ or /ɑː/ in other words such as launch, especially in the UK. An alternative explanation derives /æ ~ ɑː/ in this word (and other instances of bath before /m n/) from a collateral Middle English form with /a/, which would've undergone lengthening before nasals analogous to that occuring before fricatives. Though such a collateral form may be ancestral to pronunciations with /a ~ æ/ in some varieties, this hypothesis cannot explain why inherited instances of bath before /m n/ only derive from Middle English words which had variants in /au̯m au̯n/.

Across languages

Translations

411 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abinomn: nyebak — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Afrikaans: tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Albanian: teze — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Albanian: emtë — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Albanian: hallë — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Aleut: tuutkax̂ — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Aleut: quliigix̂ — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Southern Altai: эје (eǰe) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Alutor: ыссэ (əsse) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Amharic: ኣከስት (ʾakäst) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Arabic: عَمَّة (ʕamma) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Arabic: خَالَة (ḵāla) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Arabic: زَوْجةُ العَمّ (zawjatu l-ʕamm) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Arabic: زَوْجةُ الخال (zawjatu l-ḵāl) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܡܬܵܐ (ʿamtā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܵܠܬܵܐ (ḥāltā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܟ݂ܬ ܥܲܡܵܐ (baḵt ʿamā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܟ݂ܬ ܚܵܠܵܐ (baḵt ḥālā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Armenian: հորաքույր (horakʻuyr) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Armenian: մորաքույր (morakʻuyr) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Armenian: քեռակին (kʻeṙakin) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assamese: পেহী (pehi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assamese: জেঠাই (zethai) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assamese: মাহী (mahi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assamese: খুৰী (khuri) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assamese: বৰমা (boroma) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Asturian: tía — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Aukan: tanto — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Aukan: tiya — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Azerbaijani: xala — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Azerbaijani: bibi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bakhtiari: کچی (keči) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Basque: izeba — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Basque: izeko — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Basque: ttantta — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Belarusian: цётка (cjótka) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Belarusian: цёця (cjócja) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: খালা (khala) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: মৈ (khala) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: ফুফী (phuphi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: ফুফু (phuphi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: চাচী (caci) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: মামী (mami) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: মাসী (maśi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: মাসীমা (maśima) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: কাকিমা (kakima) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: কাকি (kaki) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bengali: খুড়ি (khuṛi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bhojpuri: काकी (kākī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Breton: moereb — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Bulgarian: ле́ля (lélja) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Burmese: ဒေါ်ကြီး (dau-kri:) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Burmese: ကြီးတော် (kri:tau) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Burmese: ဒေါ်လေး (daule:) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Burmese: အဒေါ် (a.dau) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Burmese: ထွေးလေး (htwe:le:) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Burmese: ထွေးတော် (htwe:tau) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Burmese: အရီး (a.ri:) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Carpathian Rusyn: тю́̈тка (tjú̈tka) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Catalan: tia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chichewa: bambo wamkazi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chichewa: mayi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chichewa: mayi wamkulu — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chichewa: mayi wamng'ono — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 姑 (gū) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 姑媽 /姑妈 (gūmā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 姑姑 (gūgu) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 姑母 (gūmǔ) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 伯母 (bómǔ) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 大娘 (dàniáng) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 叔母 (shúmǔ) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 嬸母 /婶母 (shěnmǔ) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 婶母 (shěnmǔ) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 嬸嬸 /婶婶 (shěnshen) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 婶婶 (shěnshen) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 姨 (yí) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 姨媽 /姨妈 (yímā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 阿姨 (āyí) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 姨母 (yímǔ) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 舅母 (jiùmǔ) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 舅媽 /舅妈 (jiùmā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 妗母 (jìnmǔ) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese: 妗子 (jìnzi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese Cantonese: 姑媽 /姑妈 (gu1 maa1) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese Cantonese: 姑姐 (gu1 ze1) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese Cantonese: 伯娘 (baak3 noeng4) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese Cantonese: 阿嬸 /阿婶 (aa3 sam2) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese Cantonese: 姨媽 /姨妈 (ji4 maa1) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese Cantonese: 阿姨 — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinese Cantonese: 舅母 (kau5 mou5) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinook Jargon: kwalh — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Chinook Jargon: khwaɬ — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Cornish: modrep — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Czech: teta — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Danish: tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Danish: faster — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Danish: moster — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Central Dusun: inai — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Dutch: tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Esperanto: onklino — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Estonian: tädi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ewe: tasi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ewe: te — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ewe: dagã — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ewe: nɔgã — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ewe: daɖia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ewe: nɔɖi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Faroese: fastir — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Faroese: mostir — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Finnish: täti — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • French: tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • French: tatie — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • French: matante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Old French: ante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Old French: aunte — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Saterland Frisian: Möie — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • West-Frisian: muoike — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Friulian: agne — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Galician: tía — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Georgian: დეიდა (deida) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Georgian: მამიდა (mamida) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • German: Tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Greek: θεία (theía) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ancient Greek: θεία (theía) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ancient Greek: τηθίς (tēthís) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Greenlandic: aja — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Greenlandic: atsa — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Gunwinggu: berluh — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Gunwinggu: karrang — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Gunwinggu: morlah — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hamer-Banna: aaká — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hamer-Banna: indá — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hamer-Banna: mishá — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hawaiian: makuahine — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hawaiian: ʻanakē — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hebrew: דּוֹדָה (dóda) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hindi: बूआ (būā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hindi: मौसी (mausī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hindi: चाची (cācī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hindi: ताई (tāī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hindi: मामी (māmī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Hungarian: nagynéni — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Icelandic: frænka — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ido: onklino — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Indonesian: bibi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Indonesian: tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ingrian: täti — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Irish: aintín — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Istriot: gnagna — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Italian: zia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Japanese: おば (oba) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Japanese: 叔母 (oba) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Japanese: 伯母 (oba) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Jeju: 고모 (gomo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Jeju: 이모 (imo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Jeju: 큰어멍 (keuneomeong) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Jeju: ᄆᆞᆮ삼촌어머니 (mawtsamchoneomeoni) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Jeju: 족은어멍 (jogeuneomeong) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Jeju: 셋어멍 (seseomeong) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Jeju: 말젯어멍 (maljeseomeong) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Jeju: 웨숙모 (wesungmo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Kambaata: lankaama — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Kapampangan: dara — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Kashmiri: پۄپھ (pọph) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Kashmiri: پیٚچھَنؠ (pechan') — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Kashmiri: ماس (mās) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Kashmiri: مامَنؠ (māman') — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Kazakh: апа (apa) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Kazakh: апай (apai) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Khoekhoe: antis — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Kis: omoigwa — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 고모 (gomo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 이모 (imo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 이모님 (imonim) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 백모 (baengmo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 백모님 (baengmonim) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 둘째어머니 (duljjaeeomeoni) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 중모 (jungmo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 큰어머니 (keuneomeoni) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 큰어머님 (keuneomeonim) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 큰엄마 (keuneomma) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 큰어미 (keuneomi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 숙모 (sungmo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 숙모님 (sungmonim) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 작은어머니 (jageuneomeoni) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 작은어머님 (jageuneomeonim) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 작은엄마 (jageuneomma) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 작은어미 (jageuneomi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 삼촌댁 (samchondaek) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 외숙모 (oesungmo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 외숙모님 (oesungmonim) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 외삼촌댁 (oesamchondaek) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Korean: 구모 (gumo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Krisa: wini — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Krisa: moni baʼ — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Krisa: moni pung — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Central Kurdish: پوور (pûr) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Northern Kurdish: xaltî — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Northern Kurdish: met — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Southern Kurdish: میمِگ (mîmig) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Latgalian: cjoceite — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Latin: amita — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Latin: mātertera — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Latin: thia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Latvian: tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Latvian: tēva māsa — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Latvian: mātes māsa — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Lithuanian: teta — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Luhya: senge — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Luxembourgish: Tatta — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Macedonian: тетка (tetka) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Brunei Malay: babu — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malay: امق ساودارا — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malay: مق چيق — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malay: تنتى — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malay: emak saudara — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malay: mak cik — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malay: tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malayalam: അമ്മായി (ammāyi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malayalam: മേമ (mēma) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malayalam: മാമി (māmi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malayalam: വല്യമ്മ (valyamma) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Malayalam: ചെറിയമ്മ (ceṟiyamma) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Maltese: zija — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Manchu: ᠠᠮᡠ (amu) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Manchu: ᠠᠮᠪᡠ (ambu) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Manchu: ᠨᡝᡴᠴᡠ (nekcu) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Māori: whaea kēkē — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Māori: whaene — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Māori: matua kēkē (genderless) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Marathi: माउशी (māuśī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Marathi: मामी (māmī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Marathi: आत्या (ātyā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Marathi: काकी (kākī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Eastern Mari: ака (aka) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Mazanderani: پرخا (perxā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Meriam: apu — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Middle English: aunte — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Miyako: ブバ (buba) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Miyako: ブバマ (bubama) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Mòcheno: moa'm — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ngarrindjeri: barno — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Norman: tànte — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Norman: tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Norwegian Bokmål: faster — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Norwegian Bokmål: moster — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Norwegian Bokmål: morsøster — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Occitan: tanta — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Northern Ohlone: 'ansik — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Old English: mōdriġe — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Old English: faþu — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Oromo: adaadaa — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Pannonian Rusyn: андя (andja) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Pannonian Rusyn: нина (nina) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Pashto: ترور — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Pennsylvania German: Aent — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Pennsylvania German: Aendi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Iranian Persian: عَمِّه (amme) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Iranian Persian: خالِه (xâle) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Iranian Persian: دایْزِه (dâyze) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Iranian Persian: کاکی (kâki) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Plautdietsch: Mumm — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Plautdietsch: Taunte — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Polish: ciotka — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Polish: ciocia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Polish: wujenka — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Polish: stryjenka — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Portuguese: tia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Réunion Creole French: matant — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Romani: bibi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Romanian: mătușă — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Russian: тётя (tjótja) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Russian: тётка (tjótka) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Russian: тётушка (tjótuška) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Northern Sami: goaski — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Northern Sami: muoŧŧá — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Northern Sami: siessá — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Northern Sami: ipmi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Skolt-Sami: sieˊss — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Sanskrit: पितृव्या (pitṛvyā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Sardinian: tzia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Sardinian: tia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Scottish Gaelic: piuthar-athar — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Scottish Gaelic: piuthar-màthar — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Scottish Gaelic: antaidh — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: teta — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: тетка — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: хала — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: ујна — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: стрина — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: tetka — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: hala — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: ujna — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: daidžinca — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: strina — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Serbo-Croatian: amidžinca — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Seri: aac — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Sicilian: zia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Sidamo: la'lama — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Sinhalese: නැන්දා (nændā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Slovak: teta — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Slovene: teta — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Somali: eddo — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Lower Sorbian: śota — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Spanish: tía — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Sudovian: mosa — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Sundanese: ébé — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Swahili: shangazi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Swedish: faster — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Swedish: moster — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Swedish: tant — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tagalog: tita — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tagalog: tiya — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tagalog: tiyahin — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tamil: அத்தை (attai) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tamil: சித்தி (citti) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tamil: பெரியம்மா (periyammā) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tamil: மாமி (māmi) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Telugu: అత్త (atta) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Telugu: పిన్ని (pinni) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Telugu: పెదమ్మ (pedamma) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Thai: ป้า (bpâa) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Thai: อา (aa) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Thai: น้า (náa) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tibetan: སྲུ་མོ (sru mo) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tibetan: ཨ་ནེ — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tokelauan: faimātua — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tokelauan: matua hā — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Tokelauan: tuātina — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Turkish: hala — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Turkish: bibi — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Turkish: eme — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Turkish: teyze — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Turkish: yenge — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Turkmen: daýza — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ukrainian: ті́тка (títka) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ukrainian: тьо́тя (tʹótja) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ukrainian: цьоця (cʹocja) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ukrainian: ву́йна (vújna) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ukrainian: ву́йчина (vújčyna) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ukrainian: тета (teta) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ukrainian: цьо́тка (cʹótka) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ukrainian: вуянка (vujanka) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ukrainian: стри́йна (strýjna) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Ulithian: aanti — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Urdu: خالَہ (xāla) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Urdu: ماسی (māsī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Urdu: پھوپھی (phophī) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Venetan: amia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Venetan: àmeđa — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Venetan: àmeda — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Venetan: àmia — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Vietnamese: cô — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Vietnamese: dì — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Volapük: jiter — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Volapük: zian — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Walloon: matante — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Welsh: modryb — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Wolaytta: aayyee michchiyo — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Wolaytta: aawaa michchiyo — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Yámana: tanowa-kipa — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Yiddish: מומע (mume) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Yoruba: ẹ̀gbọ́n màmá mi obìnrin — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Yoruba: ẹ̀gbọ́n bàbá mi obìnrin — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Yoruba: àbúrò màmá mi obìnrin — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Yoruba: àbúrò bàbá mi obìnrin — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Zazaki: ām — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Zazaki: xale (diq) — a parent's sister or sister-in-law
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܵܠܬܘܿ (ḥālto) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܢ݇ܬܬܘܿ (atto) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Armenian: հորաքույր (horakʻuyr) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Armenian: մորաքույր (morakʻuyr) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Bengali: মাসী (maśi) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Burmese: ဒေါ် (dau) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Burmese: မ (ma.) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Catalan: tia — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Chinese Mandarin: 阿姨 (āyí) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Czech: teta — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Dutch: tante — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Estonian: tädi — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Finnish: täti — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Georgian: დეიდა (deida) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • German: Tante — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Hungarian: néni — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Ingrian: minni — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Italian: zia — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Japanese: おばさん (obasan) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Jeju: 아지망 (ajimang) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Jeju: 아주망 (ajumang) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Korean: 아주머니 (ajumeoni) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Korean: 아줌마 (ajumma) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Central Kurdish: خاتۆ (xato) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Central Kurdish: خان (xan) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Latvian: tante — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Malay: makcik — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Marathi: काकू (kākū) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Marathi: माउशी (māuśī) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tante — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Norwegian Bokmål: filletante — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Portuguese: tia — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Russian: тётя (tjótja) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Serbo-Croatian: тета — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Serbo-Croatian: teta — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Slovene: teta — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Spanish: tía — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Swedish: tant — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Tamil: அத்தை (attai) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Thai: ป้า (bpâa) — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Turkish: teyze — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin
  • Yoruba: àǹtí — affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin