maternal uncle

English

Noun

maternal uncle (plural maternal uncles)

1. 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

Related terms

• maternal aunt
• paternal uncle

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
• Tajik: тағо (taġo)
• 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

See also

• uterine nephew