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family in Arabic

عَائِلَة ʕāʔila

/ˈfaməlɪj//ˈfæm(ɪ)li/

family in Arabic: عَائِلَة (ʕāʔila), أُسْرَة (ʔusra), أَهْل (ʔahl), عيلة (ʕēla). In English, family means a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

Arabic words for family

immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children
عَائِلَة ʕāʔila, أُسْرَة ʔusra, أَهْل ʔahl, عيلة ʕēla, أَهِل ʔahil
group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom
عَائِلَة ʕāʔila, أُسْرَة ʔusra, أَقَارِب ʔaqārib, أَهْل ʔahl
rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species
فَصِيلَة faṣīla
linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language
أُسْرَة ʔusra

English meaning of family

  1. noun A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
  2. noun A group of related animals, usually a mother and offspring, a mating pair or larger lineages in some species.
  3. noun An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
  4. noun A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

Full definition of family

family in a sentence

  • Our family lives in town.
  • The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
  • We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!

Synonyms of family

All synonyms of family

family in other languages

Questions about family in Arabic

What is the meaning of family in Arabic?
Family in Arabic is عَائِلَة (ʕāʔila), أُسْرَة (ʔusra), أَهْل (ʔahl), عيلة (ʕēla).
ما معنى كلمة family؟
Family: عَائِلَة (ʕāʔila), أُسْرَة (ʔusra), أَهْل (ʔahl), عيلة (ʕēla).
What does family mean in English?
Family means a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

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