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maternal cousin

maternal cousin noun: a child of one's mother's sibling.

Noun

maternal cousin (plural maternal cousins)

  1. A child of one's mother's sibling
  2. A more distant relative of one's mother who is not a direct ancestor

maternal cousin meaning in Malayalam, Sanskrit and Arabic

maternal cousin in Malayalam

maternal cousin
മാതൃഷ്വസേയൻ mātr̥ṣvasēyaṉ

maternal cousin in Sanskrit

maternal cousin
मातृष्वसेय mātṛṣvaseya

maternal cousin in Arabic

a child of one's mother's sibling
اِبْن خَال ibn ḵāl, بِنْت خَال bint ḵāl, اِبْن خَالَة ibn ḵāla, بِنْت خَالَة bint ḵāla

Forms of maternal cousin

pluralmaternal cousins

Questions about maternal cousin

What does maternal cousin mean?
Maternal cousin means a child of one's mother's sibling.
What is maternal cousin in Malayalam?
Maternal cousin in Malayalam is മാതൃഷ്വസേയൻ (mātr̥ṣvasēyaṉ). See Maternal cousin meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is maternal cousin?
Maternal cousin is a noun.
What is the plural of maternal cousin?
The plural of maternal cousin is maternal cousins.

Words near maternal cousin in the dictionary

  1. materious
  2. Matern
  3. maternal
  4. maternal aunt
  5. maternal aunts
  6. maternal cousin
  7. maternal cousins
  8. maternal custody
  9. maternal death
  10. maternal deaths
  11. maternal effect

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: maternal cousin (page history and authors); മാതൃഷ്വസേയൻ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); मातृष्वसेय (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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