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cousin

name · noun · verb · 17 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • kŭzn
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkʌzn̩/
  • General-American: /ˈkʌz(ə)n/
  • General-American: /ˈkʌzɪn/
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈkɐzən/
  • Northern-England: /ˈkʊzn̩/
  • homophone: cozen (weak vowel merger)
  • CMU ARPABET: K AH1 Z AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname from Middle English.

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

Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.

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

Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.

Preceded by an ordinal number, as first, second, third, etc.: a person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: specifically

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.

When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: specifically

Examples

  • Although we were cousins, we grew up like sisters.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; also, (preceding a first name, sometimes capitalized as Cousin) a title for such a person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (UK) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Something kindred or related to something else; a relative.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: also, attributive, figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A female sexual partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostitute.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Qualifier: cant

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A person who is swindled; a dupe.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Qualifier: cant

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chump, chumpion, cousin, cull, cully, dupe, dotterel, easy mark, fall guy, fish, gudgeon, gull, juggins, live one, mark, mug, muggins, pigeon, rube, sap, saphead, schlemiel, sheep, simp, Simple Simon, soft touch, steamer, stiff, stooge, sucker

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A person who womanizes; a seducer, a womanizer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, rare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A fan of the character Lucien LaCroix from the Canadian television series Forever Knight.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Topics: lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Forever Knightie, Knightie

13

verb

Meaning 13

To address (someone) as "cousin".

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: also, rare, reflexive, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To associate with someone or something on a close basis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, informal, intransitive, regional

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To visit a cousin or other relation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, informal, intransitive, regional

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

the child of your aunt or uncle

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: first cousin, cousin-german, full cousin

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: relative, relation

History

Etymology

From Middle English Cosyn, a surname from Norman terminology. From Anglo-Norman, from Old French cusin, cosin, cousin (“cousin”) (French cousin, cousine). Literally, “familial relative”.

The noun is derived from Middle English cosin, cosine, cosyn (“blood relative, kinsman or kinswoman; any relative; nephew or niece; first cousin; grandson or granddaughter; descendant; godchild or godparent, or a relative of a godchild or godparent; (figurative) closely related or similar thing”) [and other forms], and then: * from Anglo-Norman cosen, cosin [and other forms], Middle French cosin, and Old French cosin (“collateral male relative more distant than one’s brother; form of address used by a monarch to male monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousin); and * from Anglo-Norman cosine, Middle French cosine, and Old French cosine (“collateral female relative more distant than one’s sister; form of address used by a monarch to female monarchs or nobles”) [and other forms] (modern French cousine), from Latin cōnsobrīnus (“maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”) (possibly through Vulgar Latin *cōsuīnus, from *cōsobīnus), from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several objects) + sobrīnus (“maternal cousin; sister’s son; any nephew”) (from a noun use of Proto-Italic *swezrīnos (“of or belonging to a sister”, adjective) (with the first syllable influenced by Latin soror (“sister”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”), possibly from *swé (“self”) + *h1ésh2r̥ (“blood”) (that is, a woman of one’s own blood) or *-sōr (feminine suffix)). The verb is derived from the noun.

From cousin, in reference to an incident when a fan of the character Nick Knight, Sharon Scott, admitted that she had a fear of frogs and after two other members of the mailing list who were fans of Lucien LaCroix sent her chocolate frogs in the mail, replied that the two were so cruel that they must be cousins.

Across languages

Translations

388 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܸܙܡܵܐ (ḥizmā) — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܸܙܡܝܼܬܵܐ (ḥizmītā) — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Esperanto: parenco — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Finnish: pikkuserkku — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Finnish: sukulainen — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Galician: primo — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Galician: prima — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • German: entfernter Verwandter — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • German: entfernte Verwandte — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Greek: μακρινός ξάδερφος (makrinós xáderfos) — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Northern Kurdish: xizm — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Northern Kurdish: mirov — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Macedonian: роднина (rodnina) — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Macedonian: роднинка (rodninka) — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Romanian: văr — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Russian: ро́дственник (ródstvennik) — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Russian: ро́дственница (ródstvennica) — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Serbo-Croatian: рођак — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Serbo-Croatian: рођакиња — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Serbo-Croatian: rođak — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Serbo-Croatian: rođakinja — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Swahili: binamu — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Swedish: släkting — any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person’s extended family
  • Finnish: serkku — person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another person
  • Afrikaans: neef — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Afrikaans: niggie — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Arabic: اِبْن عَمّ (ibn ʕamm) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Arabic: بِنْت عَمّ (bint ʕamm) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Arabic: اِبْن عَمَّة (ibn ʕamma) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Arabic: بِنْت عَمَّة (bint ʕamma) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Arabic: اِبْن خَال (ibn ḵāl) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Arabic: بِنْت خَال (bint ḵāl) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Arabic: اِبْن خَالَة (ibn ḵāla) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Arabic: بِنْت خَالَة (bint ḵāla) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܪ ܥܲܡܵܐ (bar ˁammā) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܪ݇ܬ ܥܲܡܵܐ (bat ˁammā) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܪ ܥܲܡܬܵܐ (bar ˁamtā) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܪ݇ܬ ܥܲܡܬܵܐ (bat ˁamtā) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܪ ܚܵܠܵܐ (bar ḥālā) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܪ݇ܬ ܚܵܠܵܐ (bat ḥālā) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܪ ܚܵܠܬܵܐ (bar ḥāltā) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܪ݇ܬ ܚܵܠܬܵܐ (bat ḥāltā) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Armenian: զարմիկ (zarmik) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Armenian: զարմուհի (zarmuhi) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Aromanian: cusurin (roa-rup) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Aromanian: ver — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Asturian: primu — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Asturian: prima — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Azerbaijani: əmioğlu (FBS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Azerbaijani: əmiqızı (FBD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Azerbaijani: dayıoğlu (MBS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Azerbaijani: dayıqızı (MBD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Azerbaijani: bibioğlu (FZS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Azerbaijani: bibiqızı (FZD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Azerbaijani: xalaoğlu (MZS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Azerbaijani: xalaqızı (MZD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Basque: lehengusu — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Basque: lehengusina — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Belarusian: стрые́чны брат (stryjéčny brat) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Belarusian: стрые́чная сястра́ (stryjéčnaja sjastrá) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Belarusian: кузэ́н (kuzén) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Belarusian: кузі́на (kuzína) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Bengali: বেরাদর (berador) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Biatah Bidayuh: bitunggar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Bulgarian: братовче́д (bratovčéd) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Bulgarian: братовче́дка (bratovčédka) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Catalan: cosí — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Catalan: cosina — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Cebuano: ig-agaw — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chechen: шича (šiča) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Cantonese: 堂大佬 (tong4 daai6 lou2) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Cantonese: 堂細佬 /堂细佬 (tong4 sai3 lou2) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Cantonese: 堂家姐 (oFBD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Cantonese: 堂妹 (MBS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Cantonese: 表哥 (biu2 go1) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Cantonese: 表弟 (yMSiS or yFZS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Cantonese: 表姐 (biu2 ze2) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Cantonese: 表妹 (yMSiD or FZD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hakka Chinese: 叔伯阿哥 (suk-pak-â-kô) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hakka Chinese: 叔伯老弟 (suk-pak-ló-thâi) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hakka Chinese: 叔伯阿姊 (suk-pak-â-chí) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hakka Chinese: 叔伯老妹 (suk-pak-ló-moi) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hakka Chinese: 表哥 (péu-kô) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hakka Chinese: 表老弟 (péu-ló-thâi) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hakka Chinese: 表姊 (péu-chí) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hakka Chinese: 表老妹 (péu-ló-moi) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese: 叔伯兄 (chek-peh-hian) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese: 叔伯阿兄 (chek-peh-a-hian) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese: 叔伯小弟 (chek-peh-sió-tī) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese: 叔伯阿姊 (chek-peh-a-chí) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese: 叔伯小妹 (chek-peh-sió-mōe, chek-peh-sió-bē) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese: 表兄 (piáu-hian) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese: 表小弟 (piáu-sió-tī) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese: 表姊 (piáu-ché, piáu-chí) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese: 表小妹 (piáu-sió-mōe, piáu-sió-bē) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 堂兄 (tángxiōng) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 堂哥 (tánggē) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 堂弟 (tángdì) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 堂姐 (tángjiě) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 堂姊 (oFBD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 堂妹 (tángmèi) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 表兄 (biǎoxiōng) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 表哥 (biǎogē) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 表弟 (biǎodì) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 表姐 (biǎojiě) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 表姊 (biǎozǐ) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinese Mandarin: 表妹 (biǎomèi) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Chinook Jargon: kahpo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Cornish: kenderow — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Cornish: keniterow — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Czech: bratranec — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Czech: sestřenice — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Dalmatian: cosobrain — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Danish: fætter — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Danish: kusine — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Central Dusun: pinsan — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Dutch: neef — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Dutch: nicht — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Dutch: volle neef — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Dutch: volle nicht — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Esperanto: kuzo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Esperanto: kuzino — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Esperanto: gekuzo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Esperanto: kuziĉo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Estonian: nõbu — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Estonian: tädipoeg — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Estonian: täditütar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Estonian: onupoeg — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Estonian: onutütar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ewe: daa — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ewe: fo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ewe: tsɛ — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Faroese: systkinabarn — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Finnish: serkku — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Flemish: kozijn — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • French: cousin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • French: cousine — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Middle French: cousin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Middle French: cousine — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Old French: cosin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Old French: cosine — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Friulian: cusin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Galician: primo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Galician: prima — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Galician: curmán — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Galician: curmá — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Georgian: ბიძაშვილი (biʒašvili) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Georgian: დეიდაშვილი (deidašvili) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Georgian: მამიდაშვილი (mamidašvili) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • German: Cousin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • German: Vetter — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • German: Cousine — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • German: Kusine — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • German: Base — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Greek: ξάδερφος (xáderfos) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ancient Greek: ἀνεψιός (anepsiós) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ancient Greek: ἀνεψιά (anepsiá) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Greenlandic: illoq — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Greenlandic: illooraq — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Greenlandic: illuk — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hebrew: דּוֹדָן (dodan) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hebrew: דּוֹדָנִית (dodanyt) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hebrew: בן־דוד (ben-dod) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hebrew: בת־דוד (bat-dod) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hebrew: בן־דודה (ben-doda) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hebrew: בת־דודה (bat-doda) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hiligaynon: primo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hindi: चचेरा भाई (cacerā bhāī) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hindi: चचेरी बहन (cacerī bahan) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hindi: फुफेरा भाई (phupherā bhāī) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hindi: फुफेरी बहन (phupherī bahan) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hindi: ममेरा भाई (mamerā bhāī) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hindi: ममेरी बहन (mamerī bahan) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hindi: मौसेरा भाई (mauserā bhāī) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hindi: मौसेरी बहन (mauserī bahan) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Hungarian: unokatestvér — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Icelandic: frændi — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Icelandic: frænka — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ido: kuzo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ido: kuzulo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ido: kuzino — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ilocano: kasinsin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Indonesian: sepupu — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ingrian: seukko — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Irish: col ceathrair — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Irish: col ceathar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Italian: cugino — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Italian: cugina — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Japanese: いとこ (itoko) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Japanese: 従兄弟 (itoko) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Japanese: 従兄 (itoko) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Japanese: 従弟 (itoko) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Japanese: 従姉妹 (itoko) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Japanese: 従姉 (itoko) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Japanese: 従妹 (itoko) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Japanese: 従兄妹 (itoko) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Japanese: 従姉弟 (itoko) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Karelian: šeukku — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Karelian: ševotar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kashmiri: پِتُر بوے (pitur bōy) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kashmiri: پِتٕر بیٚنہِ (pitụr beni) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kashmiri: پۄپھتُر بوے (pọphtur bōy) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kashmiri: پۄپھتٕر بیٚنہِ (pọphtụr beni) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kashmiri: مامتُر بوے (māmtur bōy) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kashmiri: مامتٕر بیٚنہِ (māmtụr beni) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kashmiri: ماستُر بوے (māstur bōy) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kashmiri: ماستٕر بیٚنہِ (māstụr beni) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kazakh: бөле (böle) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Khmer: ជីដូនមួយ (cii doun muəy) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Kinaray-a: primo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Korean: 사촌 (sachon) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Korean: 종형제 (jonghyeongje) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Central Kurdish: ئامۆزا (amoza) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Kurdish: pismam — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Kurdish: kurmam (FBS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Kurdish: dotmam (FBD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Kurdish: kurmet (FZS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Kurdish: keçmet (FZD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Kurdish: kurxal (MBS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Kurdish: keçxal (MBD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Kurdish: kurxalet (MZS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Kurdish: keçxalet (MZD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ladino: primo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latgalian: bruolinīks — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latgalian: muosineica — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latgalian: muosiniška — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latin: sobrīnus — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latin: sobrīna — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latin: patruēlis — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latin: cōsīnus — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latin: cōsīna — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latin: cōnsobrīnus — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latin: cōnsobrīna — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latvian: brālēns — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Latvian: māsīca — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Lithuanian: pusbrolis — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Lithuanian: pusseserė — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Macedonian: бра́тучед (brátučed) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Macedonian: брату́чеда (bratúčeda) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Malay: sepupu — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Maltese: kuġin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Maltese: kuġina — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Manchu: ᡨᠠᡵᠠ (tara) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Māori: tungāne — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Māori: tuakana — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Māori: teina — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Māori: taina — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Māori: tuahine — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Mauritian Creole: kouzin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Mauritian Creole: kouzinn — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Mingrelian: ბიძისქუა (biʒiskua) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Mirandese: primo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Mirandese: prima — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Navajo: hazeedí — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Navajo: hoł naaʼaash — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Norman: cousin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Norman: cousaine — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Norman: couôsîn — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Norman: couôsîn gèrmain — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Norwegian Bokmål: søskenbarn — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Norwegian Bokmål: vetter — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kusine — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Occitan: cosin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Occitan: cosina — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Old English: swēor — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Oromo: durbii — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Pennsylvania German: Kossin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Persian: پسرعمو (pesa’amu) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Persian: دخترعمو (doxtar’amu) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Persian: پسرعمه (pesar’amme) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Persian: دخترعمه (doxtar’amme) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Persian: پسردائی (pesardâ’i) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Persian: دختردائی (doxtardâ’i) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Persian: پسرخاله (pesarxâle) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Persian: دخترخاله (doxtarxâle) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Polabian: tetă — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Polish: kuzyn — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Polish: kuzynka — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Portuguese: primo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Portuguese: prima — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Quechua: qayri — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romanian: văr — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romanian: vară — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romanian: verișor — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romanian: verișoară — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romanian: văr bun — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romansh: cusrin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romansh: cusregn — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romansh: cusdrin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romansh: cusrina — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romansh: cusregna — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Romansh: cusdrina — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Russian: двою́родный брат (dvojúrodnyj brat) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Russian: двою́родная сестра́ (dvojúrodnaja sestrá) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Russian: кузе́н (kuzén) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Russian: кузи́на (kuzína) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Sami: vilbealle — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Sami: vilba — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Sami: oarpmealle — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Northern Sami: oambealle — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Sardinian: fradibi — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Sardinian: fradile — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Sardinian: fradili — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Sardinian: fradiri — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Scottish Gaelic: co-ogha — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghlùn — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Scottish Gaelic: mac-bràthar-athar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Scottish Gaelic: nighean-bràthar-athar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Scottish Gaelic: mac-bràthar-màthar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Scottish Gaelic: mac-piuthar-seanar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Scottish Gaelic: nighean-bràthar-seanmhar — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Scottish Gaelic: fionn-ogha sinn-sinn-seanair — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: рођак — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: братић — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: братучед — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: братучеда — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: другобратучед — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: другобратучеда — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: rođak — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: bratić — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: bratučed — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: bratučeda — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: drugobratučed — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Serbo-Croatian: drugobratučeda — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Seri: aacaz — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Slovak: bratranec — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Slovak: sesternica — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Slovene: bratranec — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Slovene: sestrična — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Lower Sorbian: śeśko — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Lower Sorbian: śeśenica — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Spanish: primo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Spanish: prima — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Spanish: cousin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Old Spanish: primo — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Swahili: binamu — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Swedish: kusin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Tagalog: pinsan — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Taos: kìłu’úna — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Taos: prìmu’úna — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Taos: tų̀łu’úna — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Thai: ลูกพี่ลูกน้อง (lûuk-pîi-lûuk-nɔ́ɔng) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: amcaçocuğu (FBC) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: amcaoğlu (FBS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: amcakızı (FBD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: teyzeçocuğu (MZC) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: teyzeoğlu (MZS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: teyzekızı (MZD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: halaçocuğu (FZC) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: halaoğlu (FZS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: halakızı (FZD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: dayıçocuğu (MBC) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: dayıoğlu (MBS) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: dayıkızı (MBD) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: kuzen — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: kuzin — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: yeğen — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Turkish: böle — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ukrainian: двою́рідний брат (dvojúridnyj brat) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ukrainian: брат у пе́рших (brat u péršyx) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ukrainian: двою́рідна сестра́ (dvojúridna sestrá) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ukrainian: кузе́н (kuzén) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Ukrainian: кузи́на (kuzýna) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Venetan: darman — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Venetan: đerman — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Venetan: xerman — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Venetan: zerman — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Vietnamese: anh họ — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Vietnamese: chị họ — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Vietnamese: em họ — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Volapük: köst — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Walloon: cuzén — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Walloon: cuzene — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Welsh: cefnder — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Welsh: cyfnither — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Welsh: cefndryd — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Welsh: cyfnitheroedd — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Yámana: šamakuš — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Yiddish: שוועסטערקינד (shvesterkind) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Yiddish: קווין (kvin) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Yiddish: קווינע (kvine) — child of a person’s parent’s brother or sister
  • Finnish: veljes — person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality
  • Finnish: serkku — used as a term of address for someone whom one is close to; a title for such a person
  • Finnish: serkku — used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble
  • Finnish: serkutella — to address (someone) as “cousin”
  • Finnish: pitää serkkuna — to regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person
  • Finnish: veljeillä — to associate with someone on a close basis
  • Finnish: käydä serkulla — to visit a cousin or other relation
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